I know you might be thinking of somewhere else, now, but as my sons and dh are still in love with Corsice (and Capuiciolo) three years after we holidayed there, I will tell you about our experiences.
We went to Cappiciolo twice - Sept 2001 and late Aug 2002 - dh and our sons still talk about going back. IMO it's an ideal place if you have
babies and toddlers who are happy to be at the nursery and kid's clubs. The care IME is very, very good.
Not so good if you have older chidren - and that means children over 6 years. Even at age 7 years, my oldest son felt too big for the
playclub, the indoor space (a converted chalet) was too cramped for active, bigger children and baby and toddler orientated. He was fine about
joining the kid's sailing based activities, If the sea conditions were unsuitable (quite
possible) they were cancelled and we had to rescue him from the indoor space.
There were places for both boys in the daytime kids clubs, morning and afternoon. We booked 2 or 3 months in advance. We used babysitters
about 2 or 3 nights each week. No problems with babysitters' availability. However, we were willing to have the young chalet cleaning staff as babysitters, not just the trained nursery staff. If we had wanted nursery staff only, there were one or two nights in the fortnight
when this wasn't possible. We had absolutely no problems with any of our babysitters - they were great.
Beach - we loved it, though the sand was too coarse for building serious sandcastles. Still, lots of other fun things to do. Excellent fishing. dh and my oldest son spent many happy hours night fishing. Ideal as the chalet was a 5 minute walk away.
Beach bar - Sampled the pizzas once or twice. We were happy with what came out of the oven (as pizzas go). Didn't notice lashings of tomato
ketchup on them. Also the other food (ds fondly remembers the very tender duck he had). But it was expensive to eat or drink there. We preferred to drive out for family meals. During the day, definitely take your own drinks to the beach rather than paying beach bar prices. Easy to do as the cottages are so close by.
Accommodation - Very sad looking soft furnishings. I wrote in to complain. Bed linen, blankets, curtains, sofa throws etc were all
clean but had seen far better days. Considering how cheap these items are to buy, and how many thousands of pounds were were paying for our
fortnight, I felt very let down. I have seen better in youth hostels. I expected basic accommodation - no carpets, functional furniture, basic kitchen appliances etc - but even so, finding old, torn curtains at the
windows and making beds with ancient woolen blankets was not on, IMO. The furniture was fine, no gripes with that.
Dodgy plumbing and drains - we had some loo flushing problems, others had worse. Hope the plumbing is fixed now and I am sure I am not the only mumsnetter to hope this! Very nice bathrooms - clean and modern. I understand that the kitchens were to be refurbished. Hope this has happened. If not, the cooker,fridge and sink were all adequate.
All in all - and we are not package holiday people, it suited us very well as we needed lots of nursery and babysitting options to hand. The staff were mostly English, or English speaking, which is a great help when you are explaining your individual children's foibles.
If you do decide to brave corsica, and stay near Propriano, do, do, do, go to the Bains of Barachi, just outside the town. Very old fashioned, atmoshperic spa - bask in the hot sulphur pools. You will feel wonderful afterwards. You can take children. I took my oldest son. He loved it and slept like a log when he went to bed that night.
If you do happen to find a good deal on holidays to Corsica, please tell me and I can make dh and our sons very happy. We won't go this year but there is always next year to think of