Bamburi Beach, Mombasa

Hello and welcome to my review of The Bamburi Beach Hotel, Kenya. My fiancée and I stopped at the Bamburi Beach Hotel at the beginning of February 2010. It was part of our package holiday through Cosmos (Monarch). We arrived at the Bamburi Beach Hotel after a 3 hour drive from Tsavo East Park, where we had stayed at The Ashnil Aruba Lodge (see my other reviews). As we had just come off Safari and were VERY hot and sticky all we wanted to do was check in and get a shower. Our little Safari Minibus pulled up to the gate and a tall skinny security guard ran a mirror on a pole under the bus ... more

i went to kenya in january 2007, it was brilliant.............. we went on a four day safari first and that was the best thing about the holiday. seeing the animals in their own habitat and getting up close was out of this world. if you ever get the chance to go i would highly recommend it. the safari was done by samok safaris and our drive Bukura was great at spotting lots of things and very knowledgable. we stayed at the bamburi beach hotel at bambury, the waiters where the best. the kenyan people are the friendlest people i have even met and even though the country is so poor they are the ... more

on arrival in the hotel you are treated like royalty and given drinks and as much help as you can take!! the hotel is clean and rooms are not majorly luxuriuos but you have what you need. who spends much time in the hotel room anyway! when you first arrive there are guards on the gates but you soon realise this is to keep the beach boys out. if you even look over the balcony of the hotel you are being hassled to go and buy things. they are only trying to make a living but can be a bit much.we did go on the beach for a walk and soon learnt that you should take no money and say you have already ... more