Advantages: You get to see the Kenyan wildlfe up close and personal, a magical place to stay Disadvantages: The rooms are tiny and you have to share a shower and toilet with 10 other guests
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Treetops is famous for one of it's former guests. The story goes that Queen Elizabeth II stayed there in the 1950s. she went to sleep a princess and awoke as a Queen. This was when she found out the sad news that her father had passed away.
We stayed at Treetops on the 4rd day of our Kenyan safari. Anybody staying there will start off at the Outspan Country Hotel, where you will be picked up by a typical Kenyan bus. As the ... ...far away from them!
Treetops is a wooden building built on stilts. It is in between a large watering hole and a salt lick, where all the areas animals come regularly to drink. The hotel has 50 rooms, or cabins as I prefer to call them. They really are tiny! You won't spending much time in your room though, so it's not a problem!
There is a bar there and every level has large viewing windows, allowing you to view the wildlife close up. On the ground ...
Wysiwyg78 14.03.2007
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Advantages: Eye ball to eye ball with wildlife Disadvantages: Lots of stairs
Staying at Treetops is a unique experience - and I've now been twice. I'd go every weekend if it wasn't so far away. There is nowhere like it for getting up close and personal - with both wildlife and fellow guests! The accommodation is literally built around trees and is almost completely made of wood. The tiny 2-bed rooms smell deliciously of cedarwood and there are tree trunks up through the lounges. The viewing facilities, both indoor and outside, ... ...warning you of wildlife appearances during the night. They put food out for the birds which you can watch from a couple of feet away. Dinner - hot and delicious - is taken 'assembly' style with a neat sliding service rack in the centre of the tables and there was also afternoon tea. Delightful.
You can only take a small item of luggage and the rest is stored at Outspan from where you are bussed to Treetops. You return to Outspan for breakfast. There ...
tynegal 15.10.2007
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