Everybody who thinks they know what they are talking about will tell you the best time to visit Kenya is between July and September. The reasons for this are firstly that the wildebeest in their hundreds of thousands are arriving from the Serengeti.

This has the very unfortunate side effect of dramatically increasing the number of tourists in the region, and places like the Masai Mara are inundated with them, and this means two things to the prospective tourist. The first is that prices go through the ceiling, and secondly when your minibus driver takes you to see the wildebeest crossing a river, you will be........

Alfajiri Villas, has to be one of the finest houses in private ownership on the Kenyan coast. In fact Tatler, Conde Naste, and others have even gone as far as to say it is one of the finest villas in the world.

This is the perfect retreat after a safari, and a wonderful place to bring children 

Hemingways is a 74 room resort Hotel overlooking the stunning beach of Watamu Marine Park, 20 miles south of Malindi and 60 miles north of Mombasa.

 

The hotel has a distinctive exclusive, and sophisticated feel about it and is definitely for the more discerning traveller seeking quality, and peace and quiet. You won’t find much entertainment in the evenings apart from live lounge music in the restaurant twice a week and a snake charmer on one occasion in the bar.

 

This is a privately owned hotel, and given the chance to stay, I would take it with both hands. Privately owned hotels are by and large friendlier, and Hemingways has all the facilities and standards of an international five star resort.

When you add to that absolutely brilliant cuisine, the old fashioned courtesy of the staff, with attentive service, and the backdrop of ............................

The Indian Ocean Beach Club is located  on a powder white sand beach south of Mombasa, and surrounded by swaying coconut palm groves, and old baobabs.

It isn’t the kind of hotel that is all too popular nowadays, all singing all dancing, disco, high rise, bland, huge, the could be anywhere type of place.

The Indian Ocean Beach Club has been built to attract honeymooners, and romantics, and to recreate a sadly bygone age where service and opulence reigned.

 

To an extent, they ..............