Fascinating tour of the Soap Factory
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Date of visit: April 2019
I have experience of challenges around: moving around
Overall Rating
Excellent
A family run soap factory opened in 1891 and which offers free guided tours Mondays to Fridays at 12pm noon. The factory is small and accessible by 2 steps, see photo. There is also a gift shop.
Disabled Access In and Around
Excellent
The soap factory is very small, a single room at the back of the shop. From the street the entrance there are a couple of steps into the factory. The first room is a shop and there is a place to sit while you wait for the tour to start. Then there are 2 steps, see picture, into the factory itself. Although the corridor is quite narrow, there was a manual wheelchair user in the group, whose wheelchair was able to go into the factory. There were seats put out for people who required them so I could sit while I watched the demonstration, which was in English. The tour lasted about 30 - 40 minutes and afterwards there was the opportunity to buy their soap in the gift shop.
Parking & Transport
Excellent
Corfu Town is a short 5 – 10 minutes’ drive by taxi from Corfu Airport. There are buses that serve the town centre and taxis are plentiful and quite reasonably priced. Plenty of local buses stop close by. I took a taxi from my hotel.
Accessible Toilets
0Don't know.
Staff
Excellent
Staff were very welcoming. When I arrived I was invited to sit down until the tour started. The staff noticed that a bit of the factory floor was wet so they cleaned it and put down cardboard to ensure that the group would not slip. When inside the factory the staff asked who wanted a chair to sit during the demonstration. The entire tour was conducted at the same location and a comprehensive description of the soap making process was provided and the group's questions were answered. The staff involved the older children in the group to assist with the preparation of the soap.
Additional Information
The soap factory visit was fascinating and charming. There was just a small group of people who turned up for it. The tour is free and well worth doing. The soaps are reasonably priced and would make nice gifts. Highly recommend.
