Private Corfu Tours

Your island. Your pace. Two private itineraries built around the stories, the views, and the pauses that make Corfu worth slowing down for.

An Empress, an Emperor, and the Island They Couldn't Leave
Half-Day Tour · 4.5 hours

Two stops. One thread of history running between them - of empresses, emperors, and the island they couldn't stay away from. We begin at the Achilleion Palace, the summer residence Empress Elisabeth of
Austria - "Sisi" - built in 1890 after the death of her son, Crown Prince Rudolf. She came to Corfu to grieve and stayed for the light. She wanted, in her own words, "a palace worthy of Achilles" - and the Italian architect Raffaele Caritto gave her one, ringed with marble muses and framed by gardens that still fall
away toward the Ionian Sea below. Years later, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought the palace from her family and returned to it summer after summer, drawn by the same view. From there, we drive to Kanoni, where Corfu keeps its most photographed moment: the white Vlacherna Monastery, built in the 17th century and reached
by a narrow causeway across the water, with the pine-covered islet of Pontikonisi rising just beyond it. Local legend says the little island is Odysseus's ship, turned to stone by Poseidon on the long way home from Troy. True or not, watching a plane lift off from the airport runway just behind it, low over that impossibly blue
water, is a Corfu moment you won't get anywhere else. A tour for travelers who want the island's two most iconic faces, without rushing either one.

RATES
1–4 people €240
5–8 people €280
9–15 people €350

Eight Hundred Years of Corfu, in One Day
Full-Day Tour · 8.5 hours

A full day. Four places that, together, explain why Corfu has been fought over, painted, and fallen in love with for eight hundred years. We start on the northwest coast at Paleokastritsa, where green hills drop straight into water that shifts from turquoise to deep blue depending on where the sun sits. Above the bay, the Monastery of the Theotokos has stood watch since 1225 - rebuilt more than once after being destroyed by the Genoese and later the Ottomans, and still, today, a working monastery where monks tend the gardens and welcome visitors into a small museum of Byzantine icons. We take
our time here; the view alone is worth the climb. Next, inland and up, to Pelekas and the Kaiser's Throne - a rocky lookout 270 meters above the island where Kaiser Wilhelm II used to come, alone, just to watch the sun go down. Stand there and you'll understand exactly why: on a clear day you can see both coasts of Corfu at once, the green folds of the Ropa Valley, and the hills of Albania across the water. The day continues to Kanoni, for Pontikonisi and the Vlacherna Monastery, and closes at the Achilleion Palace - the same summer retreat that drew both an empress and an emperor to this island, and, by the end of the day, you'll
understand exactly why they never wanted to leave either. For travelers who want to actually know Corfu - not just pass through it - in a single, unhurried day.

RATES
1–4 people €330
5–8 people €400
9–15 people €460