I am going to make this post short and sweet, because that's how our day in
Corfu was. I have to preface this day with a little story that still makes me sad. We decided early on, on this cruise that we were not going to do any of the excursions that the cruise had to offer. Because, they were all upwards of $100 per person, and we figured we could just do our own thing for much cheaper(that worked for every other city except this one). We
regretted that we didn't do the excursion at this city. The problem with this port was....the cruise ship didn't dock at a pier like they normally do, where you can just walk off with no problem. At this city they had to "park" in the water and use the emergency boats to take everyone to shore. As you can probably imagine trying to get nearly 3000 people off the ship in boats that hold only 30 people max was quite a time consuming procedure. On top of that they give you a number for when you can get on your tender boat and ours was like number 45 or something crazy like that. We had about 8 hours in that city, I think we docked around 8am and then had to be back to the boat by 4pm or something. Anyway, around eleven they were just barely calling number 23, and by this time we were pretty
confident we were not going to get the chance to even get off the boat, for it to be worth it to even see the city.
Side note: They allowed the people who bought the excursion packages to get off very first because they had buses they had to catch at a certain time. So we were just chilling on the boat by the pool and we saw one of our friends, and we were telling her how we were kinda disappointed we weren't going to get to see the city, and she happened to have two express passes to get on a tender boat whenever she wanted, and she offered them to us!! So, we gladly accepted and went to the express lane and were escorted past the long line to get off the ship! It was really awesome! So we got off the ship and at this point we only had a few hours to explore this huge island. I'm not gonna lie, the road next to the port is pretty ghetto, and not very pretty. We decided we would take a boat off of the island to another island called Vido, it was really beautiful, there were wild turkeys, and bunnies and the beach was really nice! We swam there for about an hour or so and then it was time to head back to the island of Corfu and get back on the cruise boat.
If anything this port taught what not to do on our next cruise. We were happy that we were able to even get off the boat and see a little bit of the island. But, we know people who took the excursions and they were able to see a completely different part of the island that we never got to experience. I'm not trying to make this a sob story. So, sorry if it comes across that way. I just want to let whoever is reading this, if you ever go to Corfu, you should definitely do the excursion! Overall, we had fun of course and we were happy to visit Corfu, maybe someday we will go back there and really experience it :) Here are some pictures from our short stay in Corfu. Enjoy!
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