Kenya At Its Best

8 days, 7 nights

 

Kenya At Its Best – 8 days, 7 nights

Overnight Accommodations

+ - Norfolk Hotel

Location: The Norfolk is situated right in the heart of Kenya. It is only a few minutes away from the city centre. It is a thirty-minute drive from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya’s colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi’s finest and best-known hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around Fairmont The Norfolk hotel, which still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and has been the country’s premier hotel for 104 years.  It’s guest rooms offer lavish furniture, plush carpeting and deep velour furnishings.  The hotel features its own private gardens as well as the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi’s most famous meeting place, Fairmont The Norfolk was expanded in 1999 and subsequently renovated in time for its centennial, which it celebrated in 2004. The hotel now offers accommodations in 165 guest rooms, has eight conference rooms the largest seating 175 delegates, 6 restaurants, 24-hour room service menu, a heated outdoor swimming pool, health club with gym, sauna and steam room, beauty salon, book shop and gift shops.

+ - The Ark Lodge

LOCATION: In the heart of Aberdare National Park, 160km north of Nairobi.

The Ark is known as a “tree hotel”, built on pillions in such a way as not to disturb the animals around the waterhole. Its three decks provide superb vantage points for game viewing. A ground-level bunker provides excellent photographic opportunities, and the Yasabara waterhole is floodlit by night to enable all-night viewing of game.  A “Resident Hunter” is always on hand to elucidate on the wildlife and landscape. The 60 guest rooms are all en-suite. 9 of these are triple-bedded State Cabins; there are 45 Twin/Double-bedded State Cabins, 5 single-bedded State Cabins and 1 single-bedded courier cabin which is not en-suite. All cabins have bedside lamps and carpeted floors to ward off the evening and morning chill, small luggage racks and views of the forest or waterhole revealing game in the proximity. Cabins are provided with water flasks and glasses, hot water bottles and extra blankets. The bathrooms contain 115/240v shaving socket, shower stall, washbasin and flush toilets.

+ - Mount Kenya Safari Club

Location: The Mount Kenya Safari Club is situated on the foothills of Mount Kenya, bordering the Mount Kenya National Park, just 10kms from Nayuki Town.

With magnificent views of majestic Mount Kenya, the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club’s 120 luxuriously appointed guest rooms, set in over 100 acres of landscaped gardens, offer a unique blend of comfort, relaxation and adventure.  For those who wish to spend time relaxing at the Club, there are many recreational activities available: horseback riding, golf croquet, a bowling green, table tennis, swimming, a beauty salon, an animal orphanage and much more. There are 120 guest rooms spread out in the delightful grounds of the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club. Accommodation comprises Fairmont and Deluxe rooms, Suites, and Cottages. All rooms feature fire place, in room safe, a fully stocked mini-bar, tea and coffee facilities, separate WC and rain shower.

+ - Mara Safari Club

Location: Fairmont Mara Safari Club is set by the Mara River at the foot of the Aitong Hills in the Ol-Chiro Oiroua Conversation Area that borders the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.  The Mara Safari Club is a 45 minute flight to Nairobi Wilson Airport and 10 minute drive to Ngerende Airstrip.

The Fairmont Mara Safari Club has opened following an extensive renovation program.  Surrounded on three sides by the Mara River, and on the edge of the world’s Seventh “New” wonder of the World – the Maasai Mara – Fairmont Mara Safari Club is the epitome of tented luxury.  The main lodge at the centre of camp hosts an indoor restaurant, bar and library with Internet access.  A spacious outside deck overhangs the river and leads to a heated pool complete with bar and private massage tents.  There is a total of 50 tents with four poster, pillow-top beds and a veranda overlooking the hippo and crocodile-filled river.  Each of the 50 tents at Fairmont Mara Safari Club is superbly furnished with its own private, three-piece bathroom, including a number of “outdoor showers” in selected tents. 

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