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COAST HOTELS IN KENYA
- Africana Sea Lodge
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 328
Total rooms: 164 with shower
Rooms are in rondaavel houses. Pizzeria; grillroom; discotheque. Shares
all amenities with Jadini Beach Hotel, tennis/squash/volleyball courts,
water sports.
- Bamburi Beach Hotel
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 280
Total rooms: 140 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned; conference room; discotheque; air-conditioned squash
courts; gymnasium; Italian restaurant attached to the hotel. Water sports.
Tourist class hotel.
- Blue Safari Club
Location: Manda Island (Lamu)
Total beds: 24
Total rooms: 12 in bungalows with bath and shower
Deep sea fishing; water sports Luxury island retreat, predominantly
Italian clientele
- Che Shale
Location: 12 miles north of Malindi
Total beds: 10
Total rooms: 11 with shower
Tasteful and exclusive retreat. Gourmet cuisine. Tariff includes all
activities except deep-sea fishing. Patronized by film stars, affluent
world travelers and the most discerning.
- Coconut Village
Location: Malindi – Silversands Beach
Total rooms: 85
Total rooms: 25 with shower
Predominantly Italian clientele 
- Diani Reef Hotel
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 330
Total rooms: 133 with bath/shower
Total suites: 17 with bath/shower
Discotheque, shopping arcade, hairdressing salon; 24 hour room service;
tennis and squash courts; four bars; coffee lounge; two dining rooms;
conference facilities; large beach frontage; children’s playground.
Most attractive deluxe hotel with all customary facilities.
- Driftwood Beach Club
Location: Malindi – Silversands Beach
Total beds: 70
Total rooms: 29 with or sharing shower
Total suites: Lamu Cottage with two bedrooms
A la Carte seafood restaurant; squash court; wind surfing; scuba diving.
Informal relaxed beach club popular with younger more active clientele
Moderately priced.
- Indian Ocean Beach Club
Location: South Coast - Diani Beach
Total rooms: 100 deluxe club rooms
All rooms with ensuite bathroom, mini bar, hair dryer, air conditioner
and fan
2 restaurants, 3 bars, 3 pools, water sports
- Indian Ocean Lodge
Location: Malindi – Casuarina Point
Total beds: 10
Total rooms: 5 with shower
Deep-sea fishing; tariff includes airport transfers; transport around
Malindi; table wine; beer and windsurfing. Designed in Lamu style. Large
rooms are sumptuously appointed each with a four poster bed. A small
exclusive hotel for the wealthy individual traveler.
- Mombasa Continental Resort
Location: North Coast – Shanzu Beach
Total beds: 400
Total rooms: 156 with bath/shower
Total suites: 15 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned; beauty salon; shopping arcade; gymnasium; indoor and
outdoor restaurants; grill room; discotheque; floodlit tennis and squash
courts; conference room; supervised children’s playground; video and
mini bar in all rooms; lift 
- Jadini Beach Hotel
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 308
Total rooms: 154 with bath/shower
Total suites: 2 with bath/shower
24-hour room service; bistro; Lobster Bar; squash and tennis courts;
conference facilities; All facilities are interchangeable with neighboring
- Africana Sea Lodge
Popular family oriented hotel on wide attractive beach with safe bathing,
under same management and adjacent African Sea Lodge.
- Kiwayuu Island Lodge
Location: Kiwayuu Island – north of Lamu
Total beds: 32
Total rooms: 16 with shower
Deep-sea fishing, wind surfing; goggling: water skiing.
- Leisure Lodge
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 276
Total rooms: 132 with bath/shower
Total suites: 6 studios with min bar, bath/shower
Tennis courts; casino; air-conditioned. 
- Leisure Lodge Club
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 98
Total rooms: 151 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned; grill room; hair dressing salon; tennis courts; mini
bars in all rooms. Predominantly Italian clientele. Lovely bright spacious
rooms – imaginative architecture, but only has small beach at foot of
cliffs, reached by steps.
- Mombasa Beach Hotel
Location: North Coast
Total beds: 300
Total rooms: 150 with bath/shower
Indoor and outdoor dining rooms, a la carte grillroom; discotheque;
hairdressing salon; water slide. Past it’s prime and very run down.
- Neptune Beach Hotel
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 160
Total rooms: 78 with bath/shower
Total suites: 2 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned; shopping arcade; discotheque; water sports Modern tourist
class hotel on fine beach, offering a wide variety of water sports.

- Nomads
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 44
Total rooms: 14 with shower
Rooms are in bandas; A la Carte restaurant; water sports; deep-sea fishing.
Very informal relaxed hotel but comfortable and well run with the most
popular beach bar on Diani Beach.
- Nyali Beach Hotel
Location: North Coast – Nyali Beach
Total beds: 412
Total rooms: 210 with bath/shower
Total suites: 2 with bath/shower
Grill room, 2 pools, discotheque, conference room, hairdressing salon,
lift, use of nearby golf course and squash court, tennis courts, water
sports Long established favorite on the Kenya Coast.
- Oceanic Hotel
Location: Mombasa Island – one mile from city center
Total beds: 180
Total rooms: 90 with bath/shower
Chinese and Lebanese restaurants; conference rooms, swimming pool, discotheque,
casino. Businessmen’s Hotel – has seen better days. 
- Ocean Village
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 152
Total rooms: 9 with shower
Total villas: 30 with shower
There are one, two and three bed-roomed villas, each self-contained
and air-conditioned. A la Carte restaurant; tennis courts. Villas are
set in a lovely area shaded by tall trees.
- Ocean Sports
Location: Watamu – 16 miles south of Malindi
Total beds: 41
Total rooms: 21 with bath/shower
Total suites: 1 house with 2 bedrooms
Small, club-like atmosphere.
- Outrigger Hotel
Location: Mombasa Island – one mile from city center
Total beds: 88
Total rooms: 44 with bath/shower
Swimming pool. Simple budget class hotel aimed at business market. 
- Pemba Channel Fishing Club
Location: Shimoni – 60 miles south of Mombasa
Total beds: 14
Total rooms: 7 with shower
Swimming pool; deep sea fishing A serious fisherman’s base. Has outstanding
boats and crews. Most of Kenya’s fishing records have been landed here.
- Peponi Hotel
Location: Lamu
Total beds: 43
Total rooms: 21 with shower
Lamu’s leading hotel, beautifully situated on Shella beach. Pleasant
and simple rooms. Good food.
- Plaza Hotel
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 176
Total rooms: 88 with bath/shower
Total suites: 9 with bath/shower
Grill room; conference facilities, air conditioned throughout 
- Reef Hotel
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 320
Total rooms: 160 with bath/shower
Total suites: 1 with bath/shower
Grill room; tennis courts; discotheque; gymnasium; sauna A popular medium-priced
hotel.
- Robinson Baobab Club Hotel
Location: South Coast – Diani Beach
Total beds: 300
Total rooms: 150 with bath/shower
Tennis courts; volleyball; scuba diving; gymnasium; karate training;
outdoor chess. Most imaginatively designed. Part of international chain
of hotels. Caters predominantly for German clientele.
- Hemingway’s Hotel
Location: North Coast, Watamu
Total beds: 156
Total rooms: 78 all command magnificent seaviews.
Squash courts and gym, deep sea diving. A favorite hotel for keen deep
sea fishermen. Expensive, but more than justified 
- Serena Beach Hotel
Member of the leading hotels of the world
Location: North Coast – Shanzu Beach
Total beds: 248
Total rooms: 118 with bath/shower
Total suites: 2 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned rooms, tennis and squash courts, gymnasium; Arab – style
market place, water sports and recreation facilities available. Built
in the style of an Arab village. Imaginative public rooms continue the
theme. Rooms on the small side. Truly international clientele. An attractive
and well-managed hotel.
- Severin Sea Lodge
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 345
Total rooms: 174 with bath/shower
Total suites: 4 with bath/shower
Air-conditioned rooms; hairdressing salon; hair dryers and curlers in
all rooms, water sports, 24 hour bar; attractive well-shaded gardens;
Imani Dhow restaurant. A well-considered medium – priced hotel, professionally
run. 
- Shimoni Reef Fishing Lodge
Location: Shimoni – 60 miles south of Mombasa
Total beds: 24
Total rooms: 6 cottages with shower
Deep sea and inshore fishing; marine park trips. Cottage accommodation
in an attractive garden. A nice ‘getaway’ from it all place.
- Sun ‘n’ Sand
Location: North Coast – Kikambala
Total beds: 260
Total rooms: 130 with bath/shower
Tennis court; water sports Privately owned family class hotel
- Turtle Bay Hotel
Location: Watamu – 16 miles south of Malindi
Total beds: 211
Total rooms: 114 with bath/shower
Tennis court; water sports; grill room Uninspiring design. Roomy and
spacious public rooms. All inclusive hotel. 
- Voyager Beach Resort
Location: North Coast-Nyali
Total rooms: 233 Cabins
Air-conditioned bedrooms; water sports. Click on the image to see a
virtual tour of the Voyager beach resort
- Whispering Palms Hotel
Location: North Coast – Kikambala
Total beds: 220
Total rooms: 110 with shower
3 swimming pools, air-conditioned bedrooms; water sports. Moderately
priced hotel on an attractive beach. A little isolated.
- White Elephant Sea Lodge
Location: Malindi – Silversands
Total beds: 70
Total rooms: 35 with bath/shower
All rooms tastefully designed in Arab style, furnished with antiques.
Quiet, dignified and very comfortable hotel.
- Whitesands Hotel
Location: North Coast – Bamburi Beach
Total beds: 680
Total rooms: 340 with bath/shower
Total suites: 1 presidential suite, 2-ensuite master room.
Air-conditioned rooms; water sports; TV/Video lounge, conference facilities,
2 swimming pools, out door Jacuzzi, wind surfing and cataman sailing,
table tennis, volleyball and squash courts, golf at nearby Nyali Golf
Club. Popular medium-priced hotel. 
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