What to Do in Corfu with Kids
Ashore in Corfu with a young child and a few hours
Corfu sits just off Greece's northwest coast, a regular stop for Mediterranean cruises and home to one of the prettiest old towns in the Ionian. We went as a full family trip — husband, kids, and six hours ashore before the ship pulled out again.
A kid who'd been on a boat for days and had opinions about it. No excursion bus, no all-day tour — I had a window, and I wasn't going to waste it standing in a group listening to a guide talk about a fort we weren't going inside.
So I built a hunt which included all the things my husband and I wanted to see and eat. Corfu Old Town turned out to be perfect for this. The route runs through the Liston arcades and into the narrow lanes of the Campiello quarter, past a soap factory that's been on the same street for two hundred years — which is a strange thing to explain to a four-year-old.
There's a stop I almost cut because it seemed like an odd choice on an island full of better photo opportunities: a small specialty dairy shop. After hours of research and getting steadily more excited about this trip, I wasn't going to skip trying the rice pudding myself, let alone leave it off the route. Turns out a four-year-old has opinions about rice pudding too, all good.
This hunt is heavy on shopping and eating local specialties. It ends the way it always should, at a playground right at the edge of the sea.
Built for the cruise-port morning or afternoon — ages 3–7, about two hours, short enough to enjoy a lunch and comfortably make your all-aboard time.