Agios Stefanos (W) N of Arillas
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Now a big development which some think modern and rather bland. However, Barefooters describe a superb beach with nice clean sand and a small nudist area at a quiet end away from the organised section where the beach narrows and is backed by cliffs. My correspondent gave it a 90% rating. It can be reached by walking over cliff-tops from Arillas beach (spectacular views). Turn right over a small stream (northwards). Walk north past the sunbeds and umbrellas and the cliffs. It is a lovely long and wide beach with plenty of room for everybody. The very far end of the beach (just past a bungalow set in a gap in the cliffs) tended to be littered with remains of bonfires and is not to be recommended.
On arrival at the beach turn right, walk past all the sun beds laid in rows, when the cliff is behind you you will find the naturist area, plenty of single people, male & female all ages, families all enjoying their own space. Clean water, shallow and ideal for paddling & swimming.
17°C
Try a mud bath.
Generally the beach becomes CO from where there is a little shack set back from the beach. From this point it was probably 75% naturist depending on time of day. In the afternoon the beach was practically empty. Beautiful to walk along the sand/surf for several hundred metres. Nice atmosphere with mix of couples and singles although right at the very end of the beach seemed to be only a few single men.
Various reporters thought this a lovely beach. One Barefooter thought it even nicer than Plakias on Crete, his previous favourite, which is certainly some rating.
2011 September: As mentioned turn right when arriving at the beach & walk to the area beneath the cliffs. Very comfortable mix of couples & singles, & no more than 12 couples on the long stretch of beach when we visited. Only slight drawback is that as the naturist area is beneath the cliffs & is west facing, the sun was not on the beach until around noon. Still a wonderful beach on which to spend the afternoon.
There are ATM machines but they are private machines with poor exchange rates or they charge 3-4 Euros for their use.
2016 August (mid): We arrived around noon and started walking along the populated beach. By the end of the stretch you can find a few nudists lying down but the area is too crowded. Better to go behind the corner to find a more suitable place to strip off. We encountered around 15 nudists there, no textiles. Settled and had a great day. Around 4 in the afternoon more textiles came wandering about. A quick scan left and right gave us the idea that more or less all nudists had left the beach by then so we decided to leave as well. For the time we were there 100% naturist. As a local couple, we advise it as a great beach even in the high season. The nudist area is only in the right side, first a little overcrowded and then very isolated behind the cliff. A few textiles, mostly couples go walking along the beach, but it's not a big deal. Very friendly even for lone women.
July: One of the best naturist spots in Corfu. To find the beach, you really have to go to the end of the right side of the beach of Agios Stefanos, beyond hotels and their chairs (if you have the opportunity, have a cocktail for sunset at the Delfino Blu Boutique Hotel pool bar), the "woodhouse" and the cliffs (as shown on pics). 100% naturist.
May: At 10 in the morning I was the first one on the beach. Because I did not know where the nudist part starts I stripped off halfway. Later that day there were about 30 people on the beach. Because it is a very long beach people lay down at least 50 metres away from each other. Next to me a naked couple, the rest textile. Later I walked to the Northern end, 15 minutes walk, there was a few more nudists.
2017 August: the mixed part of the beach still exists, but the long coast that was only for nudists, after the wooden house, has vanished!!
2019: Ag. Stefano and Arillas are by far best beaches all over Ionian islands. We were there one Saturday mid-June. The beach is huge. First division only for dressed bathers, more than 200! Don't expect sitting after Havana beach bar because only dressed bathers were there. About 50m after Havana is there a yellow stand (Sea-jet rental) with about 20 umbrellas, where also all bathers were dressed. Pass this point and immediately after you will see nudists: about 10-15 umbrellas with about 20 nudists.
We pass this point and we sat in front of the wooden house all day totally naked. The house owners were there (dressed) but not an issue. At the same point were also about 10-15 other nudists - 2 lonely men, 3 lonely women and couples, 2 of them consisted of totally naked women and dressed men. We spent all day there having mud bath, that was wonderful, and walking until the end of the beach totally naked. All nudists walking naked there but also many dressed bathers from the other part of the beach (no problem). The end of the beach also is a nice place for sexual activity because the distance between bathers - with discretion.
In May, the Nudist part started just beyond the Havana Beach Cafe - 5 of us on a Friday afternoon. Two more round the corner. Arillas was far more popular.
Ag. Stefano and Arillas are by far best beaches all over Ionian islands. We were there one Saturday mid-June. The beach is huge. First division only for dressed bathers, more than 200! Don't expect sitting after Havana beach bar because only dressed bathers were there. About 50m after Havana is there a yellow stand (Sea-jet rental) with about 20 umbrellas, where also all bathers were dressed. Pass this point and immediately after you will see nudists: about 10-15 umbrellas with about 20 nudists.
We pass this point and we sat in front of the wooden house all day totally naked. The house owners were there (dressed) but not an issue. At the same point were also about 10-15 other nudists - 2 lonely men, 3 lonely women and couples, 2 of them consisted of totally naked women and dressed men. We spent all day there having mud bath, that was wonderful, and walking until the end of the beach totally naked. All nudists walking naked there but also many dressed bathers from the other part of the beach (no problem). The end of the beach also is a nice place for sexual activity because the distance between bathers - with discretion.
In May, the Nudist part started just beyond the Havana Beach Cafe - 5 of us on a Friday afternoon. Two more round the corner. Arillas was far more popular.
2020 August: We spent there Friday afternoon. Altogether there were about 20 naturists spread on really huge beach, but plenty of textiles were walking through the naturist beach there and back not respecting the naturists at all. Also many textiles settling down just next to the few naturists there, although they had long part of almost empty beach between the textile beach and this part. During the afternoon more and more textiles were coming and at the end we were the minority even at the "naturist" part of the beach.
The sea is very shallow - you need to walk about 150 m to be even able to swim. Arillas are much better … and Pefkoulia on Lefkada even much better.
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