Country Info
- Nairobi
- Capital
- Kenyan shilling (KES)
- Currency
- 30,765,916
- Population
- KE
- Country Code
Kenya Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kenya
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Intercontinental Hotels Intercontinental Nairobi
179 reviews -
Hilton Nairobi Hotel
204 reviews
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Serena Nairobi
203 reviews -
Holiday Inn Mayfair Court Nairobi
138 reviews
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Stanley Hotel Nairobi
207 reviews
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Sixeighty Hotel Nairobi
60 reviews -
LAICO Regency Hotel Nairobi
53 reviews
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Sarova Panafric (Superior) Nairobi
139 reviews
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Safari Park Nairobi
120 reviews
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Fairmont The Norfolk Nairobi
148 reviews
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Safari Club Nairobi
86 reviews
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Southern Palms Hotel Diani
470 reviews
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Reef Mombasa
139 reviews
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Serena Beach Mombasa
208 reviews -
Mt. Kenya Safari Club Nanyuki
83 reviews
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Nyali Beach Mombasa
110 reviews
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Jacaranda Nairobi
98 reviews
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Tribe - The Village Market Hotel Nairobi
157 reviews
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Severin Sea Lodge Mombasa
180 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi
118 reviews
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Leisure Lodge Ukunda
74 reviews
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Lti Kaskazi Beach Diani
91 reviews
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Sarova Shaba Samburu National Reserve
44 reviews
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Lion Hill Lodge Lake Nakuru National Park
157 reviews
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Kenya Comfort Hotel Nairobi
71 reviews
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Kivi Milimani Hotel Nairobi
61 reviews -
The Panari Hotel Nairobi
76 reviews
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Castle Royal Hotel Mombasa
76 reviews
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Hotel Boulevard Nairobi
103 reviews
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Salt Lick Safari Lodge Tsavo National Park West
94 reviews
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Indian Ocean Beach Club Ukunda
137 reviews
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Nairobi International Youth Hostel
13 reviews
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Sentido Beach Resort Mombasa
105 reviews
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Hotel Ambassadeur Nairobi
12 reviews -
Bermuda Hotel Nairobi
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Ark Lodge Aberdare National Park
63 reviews
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Sai Rock Hotel By Resort Bookings Mombasa
13 reviews
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Sentrim Amboseli Lodge Amboseli National Park
72 reviews
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Pinewood Village Beach Resort Ukunda
363 reviews
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Lenana Mount Hotel Nairobi
7 reviews
Kenya
Travel Blogs from Kenya
Pajero Shenanigans by Peggy
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Aug 19 Pajero Shenanigans by Peggy As Corinne was telling us of all the noises that come from their Land Rover, I thought a moment, and couldn't recall a time I was bothered by any noises from our vehicle. The boys and I ...
Witnessing a beach robbery
This is a top pick! Version 1: Fabyan recounts the incident, "At eleven hundred hours, I witnessed a mass murder…" “You what?” I interject. Attempting to maintain his intense Suspense Feature ...
Crater lake, Lac Crater
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas... Aug 15, Crater lake Nozzles up, black eyes scrutinising our every move while chewing on some grass nearby, curled horns toward us, we are not so sure we can pass and not be charged by these not so welcoming water ...
Cottage by the sea // Chalet au bord de la mer
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Clip clop, swish, swish, clop clop, swash, swash… not sure if this sounds like what we hear right now of the rain drops pounding on the thatch roof of our cottage with the wind sending them here and there… the ...
En route to Masai Mara
This is a top pick! Aug 16/17 Au revoir Naivasha; en route to Masai Mara Lance gets up early everyday and so, in this entry, you will find some of the photos of an early morning sunrise here in Naivasha. He does most of the photography, though Roman and Fabyan add to the ...
Nairobi, Karen camp
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas... 21-22 August, Nairobi Karen Camp Back in the city, before we head toward Tanzania... we changed campsite and found Karen camp, which contains other overlanders who are doing a similar trip as ours...so, we have spent hours ...
Lake Elmenteita, Lac Elmenteita
This is a top pick! ... catering house for a week is still cheaper than trying to find hotels...but they are few and far in between once you leave Kenya....and that means spending a long time on the net, which over here is up and down constantly. Sorry for the grainy photos, ...
Masai Mara safari
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas... Aug 18, Masai Mara afternoon safari Though we had read about the wildebeests migration, it is hard to picture it until you are in front of it... tens of thousands of animals roam the plains... they are scattered everywhere ...
D Day!
This is a top pick! ... camping with a view? Totally by chance that we met a Kenyan who is married with a Canadian from Calgary...she’s been in Kenya for 20 years. Tomorrow we check out another 4x4 for Tristan and Peggy...we have one already lined up ... 4x4...it’s ...
Dancing Bird
This is a top pick! There's this bird that battles itself every day against the single exterior bathroom mirror. There is only one mirror in the camp, for the 6 showers and toilets. Perhaps the mirrors uniqueness ...
Coming Down
This is a top pick! My flight from Addis to Nairobi was delayed an hour for transit passengers. Duty free shops are taxed. I called Margaret to tell her I'd be back that night. The flight was smooth once we got going. We flew straight down the Rift Valley, over Shashamane ...
The shock of the first day // Choc du 1er jour
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... We arrived safe and sound, though very tired of the sleepless night... I wish they would place proper head rests in airplanes, in economy class! The air is thick with mist and pollution, the grass is brown and everything ...
Spain wins 2010 World Cup; Jau is very unhappy
This is a top pick! Made it back to Nairobi in time for the finale of the World Cup. Germany took 3rd place over Uruguay. Sunday the 11th brought the game everyone was waiting for. Spain was taking on the Netherlands in the final. I felt like I had already won since these ...
The Big Five
This is a top pick! Thursday morning I was up bright and early for my adventure to the Masai Mara National Park. Eventually my safari vehicle picked me up right outside the apartments gate (good service) and I was off. We had a good group going, it was myself and two ...
More Work
This is a top pick! Friday I woke and set off back to Kilifi to meet with Margaret and Peter once again to visit another group of farmers. I was late, but we were well recieved by the farmers when we arrived. It was fun riding on the back of the dirt bike through the ...
A Likkle D.J. Stylee
This is a top pick! I left Kilifi in a matatu with a working tape player. I had heard about a big reggae show that was moving up the coast from Mombasa. I figured I could catch it in Malindi, on my way to Lamu. I arrived around mid-day and settled into town with some ugali ...
The Accidental Robbery
This is a top pick! The day did not start well. Breakfast and all that was fine but once we got on the road things took a turn for the worse. We passed two horrendous car accidents that caused some major traffic jams within the first two hours on the road. We made it in to ...
How to take 7h to do 250kms! 7 heures pour 250kms
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Mombasa to Tsavo, August 5th How to take 7 hours to do 250kms ! The morning started late in the sense that Fabyan's cold did not seem to improve so we thought it would be better for him to go to the ...
More Coco
This is a top pick! ... life and the ills of the world. She has many great resources I have yet to look into. It finally rained. A delegation of Kenyan ministers of parliament died in a plane crash on their way to calm tribal war in northern Kenya. Politics is ...
Kwetu Training Center
This is a top pick! In the morning I woke up to go to Kwetu Training Center for Sustainable Developement (kwetu@sollatek.co.ke, pda@africaonline.co.ke). The bus wasn't too long from Kilifi to Mtwapa, but Kwetu was at least 5 km off the main road. The wierd thing is that you ...
Nairobi to Arusha - Welcome to Tanzania!
This is a top pick! Arriving in Nairobi it looks like quite a modern city. The first thing I noticed were no boda bodas - how the hell were people meant to get around? Taxis! I took my complementary breakfast with the bus company - Chips, eggs, fried battered sausage and ...
Karen is NOT Nairobi
This is a top pick! Like I mentioned in my previous blog, it was a very early start. We drove through the bottom of the great rift valley and dropped Team Australia and Team Netherlands off so they could go to the Masai Mara in a safari vehicle for a different adventure. ...
Low key // on se la coule douce
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Last few days by the beach... we are low key... I had to go to the hospital because my cold does not seem to be getting better...it is laryngitis and I now have to take antibiotics...argh... Fab on the other hand seems to ...
Tourists in, animals out! Animaux inexistants
This is a top pick! ... . Quoi qu'il en soit, nous sommes finalement arrivés à au camping public de Tsavo Ouest ... les coûts d'entrée des parcs du Kenya sont hors de ce monde et multipliés par 6, c’est horrible ... pourtant, c'est le «jeu» que nous jouons en ...
Tsavo Bravo!
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Tsavo West, August 7th Tsavo Bravo! Armed with a better night and determined to find those animals, we perch ourselves on the truck's window seals and search hard... we will spend the best part of the day driving and ...
So long Southern and East Africa!
This is a top pick! Nairobi, Kenya marks the end of the road for our 8-week trip through southern and east Africa. Crossing over from Tanzania was a little sad because we knew we would have to say goodbye to the friends we made on the overland safari, but we're excited ...
Naivasha, Hell's gate
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas... Aug 12 Naivasha So, here we are, in the beautiful villa I found on the net and I think: this must be the best accommodation we will ever have during the year, so better enjoy it ! But the weather is rather ...
Goat soup & the stoic baboon
This is a top pick! We left Saturday morning for a weekend trip to Nakuru. I was finally leaving the big city of Nairobi behind and seeing some of the African countryside and some of the real African magic I had been expecting. Not long after leaving Nairobi, we stopped at ...
Zanzibar days.....Ticket madness
This is a top pick! ... We had a long but uneventful bus ride to Mombassa the following day, the main highlight was a friendly immigration bloke on the Kenya border and the ferry across to Mombassa... We shared the bus with some North London Kenyan/Indians who reminded us of ...
Don't Tell My Mom We Were in the Congo
This is a top pick! Leaving Tanzania we drove across the border into the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. Nairobi, often referred to as "Nairobbery," is known for its rampant street crime. Despite thinking of myself as pretty street smart after working in the Bronx for three ...