LODGES
Nairobi, Mombasa and other main urban centres, generally have a good selection of hotels and standards. Conocer Safaris features a range of hotels from basic good value accommodation to the very best that Kenya offers. Facilities generally include a swimming pool, selection of restaurant, café, bar lounge and shops. Rooms are en-suite and many offer air conditioning, TV (mainly in Nairobi hotels), telephone and room service. Most have architectural design and interior in a local context and blending with the surroundings.
LODGES
A game lodge or safari lodge is actually a small hotel, rarely exceeding 150 beds. Generally, imaginatively designed and furnished and occupy superlative sites within the parks.
Lodges are strategically located near rivers or dramatically set into elevated vantage points overlooking waterholes and offering wide and distant panoramas. Facilities often include an elevated pool, dining room, lounge, shop, bar and verandahs which usually offer spectacular views and exciting sunsets. Architecture is imaginative and facilities usually impressive. Room decor is often in the local or cultural theme and most likely offers twin beds with an en-suite bathroom/shower. Rooms may be arranged in chalet or rondavel format.
CAMPS
A tented lodge has sleeping accommodation in tents, but the tents permanent and in public areas. They generally also have swimming pools. Some tents are built on a permanent plinth, with thatched roof covering with the furnishings rustic in style and in local context.
They are generally smaller than lodges. Erected in prime game viewing areas and generously appointed, they offer the atmosphere of luxury and nostalgia.
Tents are equipped with separate bed/dressing rooms and shower/toilet en-suite. You can enjoy the intimacy and high security with a sense of adventure.
Tents generally accommodate two full size beds and bathroom facilities are en-suite including hot and cold running water and flush toilets.
CAMPING SAFARIS
At the upper end, is the luxury tented camp, set up especially for the client in location which may vary, but which are always exclusive and adventurous. The luxury tented safari travels with a complete compliment of staff including chef giving a high standard of personal service. A more budge style camping safari is also available with all facilities provided.
Hotels, Lodges and Camps in Kenya
Samburu Lodge
Dining rooms are situated on the Uaso Nyiro River. Accommodation comprises of 59 rooms in thatched bungalows and a twin storey building. There is a restaurant, bar and pool.
Lake Nakuru Lodge
This is located in tropical gardens with an elevated view of Lake Nakuru.
Facilities include 68 rooms, restaurant, bar and swimming pool.
Ngulia Lodge
The lodge is strategically positioned on a high outcrop in the Tsavo West National Park.
The lodge has one of the highest positioned swimming pools in Kenya.It has 52 rooms, restaurant, bar and viewing terrace.
The Ark
This lodge is situated in the heart of The Aberdares National Park and located by a waterhole.
There is a photographic 'hide' and catwalk gangway.
Facilities are 60 cabin rooms, restaurant and bar.
Kilaguni Lodge
Has a spectacular panorama over Tsavo West National Park, beyond its saltlick.Facilities include 52 rooms, restaurant, bar and swimming pool.
Mt. Kenya Safari Club
This lodge is located right on the slopes of Mount Kenya, facing the Batian peak.Mt. Kenya Safari Club has impeccable facilities and service.
Some of the facilities including, golf, tennis, pool and horse riding. It is surrounded by a game ranch 1216 acres of alpine forest and lush streams.
Amboseli Serena
Overlooking by the majestic Mt. Kilimanjaro it has 102 ensuite rooms, modelled on Massy Manatees. There is a swimming pool, restaurant and bar.
Treetops
The rambling tree lodge is situated in The Aberdares National Park. With 50 rooms, it is famous as the place where Princess Elizabeth learned of her ascension to the British Throne. Comfort is not high priority, yet it is a fine place to observe wildlife firsthand.
Larsens
Named after one of the founding fathers of tourism in Kenya, Larsens offers the traditional feel of tented safaris in undreamt of luxury.
Each of the 14 twins and 3 suites comprise a luxury ensuite tent pitched on a permanent concrete base. Located to give excellent views along the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu National Park. Dining is in a mess tent and there is also a bar tent.
Mara Serena
This is built on a prime site overlooking The Masai Mara Plains. Serena's property has 77 rooms, restaurant, bar and elevated swimming pool with sun terrace.
Governors Camp
Has a reputation as a luxury tented lodge and is always associated with the rich. May be this is the reason why Americans billionaires like Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates always prefer the Governors Camp. The 36 ensuite tents are each on a permanent base, right on the banks of the Mara River. Dining is in a candlelit tent, sundowners from the well stocked bar are enjoyed by the campfire.
Mountain Lodge
Situated in the highlands on the slopes of Mt. Kenya it overlooks a large waterhole/salt lick that is frequented by elephants, rhinos and buffaloes. There are 45 ensuite rooms, dining room, bar, viewing galley and dugout.
Lake Naivasha Country Club
Steeped in history, Lake Naivasha Country Club is set on 55 acres land and has 16 individual rooms. It was once a base for BOAC. Facilities include pool, tennis, bar and a delightful lounge.
Mara Safari Club
This is built close to The Masai Mara Game Reserve. It has 50 ensuite tents each with a four poster bed. It has a dining room, lounge and a swimming pool.
Keekorok Lodge
This is the oldest lodge in The Masai Mara. It is conveniently located near the entrance to the reserve. It boasts of 109 rooms in cabins. There is a dining room, bar and swimming pool.
Lake Baringo Club
The Club restaurant and bar are flanked on either side by 45 twin rooms. The club is situated on the gardens beside Lake Baringo. There is a swimming pool, bird walks and excursions across the lake are available.
Salt Lick Taita Hills
Close to Tsavo National Park these two Hilton properties are quite unique. Salt Lick comprises of 64 rooms in pepper pot cabins.
Taita Hills offers 60 ensuite rooms with a restaurant, lounge, swimming pool, tennis, mini-gold and hot air ballooning - all extra, payable locally.
Voi Safari Lodge
Beautifully located on an outcrop overlooking The Chyulu Hills in Tsavo East, it boasts of 52 rooms, dining room, restaurant, swimming pool and photographic hide.
Mara Simba Lodge
Situated on the banks of the Talek River, it was designed with imagination and built with traditional materials so that the lodge nestles unobtrusively into the landscape.
The restaurant and bar overlooks the river. Other facilities include a shop and a swimming pool.
Outspan Hotel
Lord Barden Powell founded the scout movement from Paxtu on Outspan grounds. This is a grand old country house of 45 rooms, suites and cottages. Facilities include restaurant, lounge, snooker room, tennis courts, swimming pool and gift shop.
The Aberdare Country Club
The atmosphere is one of a country hotel with accommodation in stone cottages.Set within lush gardens and surrounded by its’ own game sanctuary, it has 60 rooms and cottages.
Emphasis is either on quite solitude or on numerous sporting activities options including tennis, swimming, golf, horse riding and fishing.
Tortilis Camp
This is an exclusive 15 tent luxury conservation camp. The main lodge is perched on a small hill with matchless views across Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Each tent is set on a permanent base with ensuite shower and its own verandah and sensitively positioned to provide privacy within natural Acacia woodland. Emphasis is on Italian cuisine home cooking 'just the way your momma would like it'.
Samburu Serena Lodge
Serena offers luxury thatched wooden cabins under a canopy of majestic trees amid a blaze of flowers. Facilities feature bar, lounge with a restaurant that overlooks both the swimming pool and beyond the river.
Ol Tukai
This has a cottage-style accommodation comprising 80 rooms located either side of the central main lodge. Set in a forest camouflaged by yellow-fever trees.
Mara Sarova Lodge
The lodge is situated on a natural elevation between two streams. There are 75 tents located on permanent platforms, each equipped with an ensuite shower and walk in closet.
Features include a restaurant, deck-view bar and a swimming pool.
Sweetwaters Tented Camp
This is a reminiscent of Karen Blixen's Africa of the 1920's.
Sweetwaters offers a luxurious tented camp, overlooking a waterhole with first rate facilities in a private game reserve. The reserve is also home to the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya.
Lake Elementaita Lodge
The former home of Lord Cole, this luxury hotel with colonial restaurant and bar has 33 ensuite guestrooms, located in the main lodge and in cottages.
Bird watching walk, ox-wagon safaris and horse riding are some of the activities available.
Sarova Lion Hill
This Sarova's property is landscaped into the side of Lion Hill, a wooded, rocky hillside of Euphorbia trees. Both Leopard and Lion have been sighted there.
The lodge enjoys an elevation panorama of Lake Nakuru and its woody covered marshy banks.
Accommodation features attractive semi-detached chalets.
Sarova Shaba Lodge
Attractively landscaped, this is Savora's flagship lodge and features 85 rooms in thatched chalets, immediately facing the river. Dining is in the open-air restaurant. Sarova Shaba has a free form swimming pool.
Finch Hattons
This is located at the foot of the Chyulu Hills surrounding 3 Hippo Pools. It has 35 truly exclusive ensuite tents of stunning proportions on elevated platforms with verandah. Your privacy is assured. The main building includes a beautiful period restaurant, generous bar, lounge and terrace (overlooking Mt. Kilimanjaro).
Enjoy the large landscaped swimming pool of mineral water, escorted nature walks and game drives.
Taita Hills
This lodge is located in a game sanctuary of 192 sq km, just 30 km from Mombasa. Taita Hills Lodge comprises 60 ensuite rooms, providing the traveller with Hilton amenities and service.
Tents at Taita Hills satisfy a thirst for a bush safari.
Samburu Intrepids
Occupying a shady spot right on the banks of the Uwaso Nyiro River, Intrepids offers the height of luxury - 27 twin-bedded ensuite tents on permanent bases overlooking the river.
Facilities include swimming pool, open restaurant, bar and lounge.
Mara Intrepids Club
Mara Intrepids offers 30 twin or double-bedded ensuite tents, arranged in groups to form mini-camps.
Samburu Lodge
Tents are on permanent bases, equipped with power and running water. Club facilities include open restaurant, bar and lounge.
Mara Safari Club
The club has two prime game viewing platforms, one position to view sunsets across the Mara plains and a second at an area frequented by Leopard.
Siana Springs
Built on the former site of Cottars Camp at natural springs, Siana offers 85 ensuite tented accommodations on permanent locations. Clients here enjoy the open bus environment, including bird walks. Facilities include restaurant, bar and swimming pool.
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