Voi Safari Lodge - Kenya (Voi Safari Lodge (Kenya))

Member Name: shadsybear

Product:	Voi Safari Lodge (Kenya)
Date:	03/11/08 (198 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good views of the animals. Clean and bright rooms. Friendly staff.

Disadvantages: Average food. Not a wide selection of animals visiting the waterhole.

I went to Kenya in June last year and during our 2 week stay we went on a 5 day safari staying in three different locations. Voi was the first stop on our safari.

Voi Safari Lodge is perched on the top of a cliff-faced hill, and is uniquely designed to be a hinge like structure overlooking Kenya's Tsavo East National Park plains extending as far as the undulating terrain of the Yatta Plateaus.

The lodge is 160km from Mombasa and is an ideal place to visit Tsavo East and West as well as Taita Hills national parks. There are 52 rooms at the lodge.

The accommodation at the lodge is good. The room we stayed in was large and bright. We had two comfy double beds and a large bathroom. The rooms were very clean and tidy. We also had a balcony where we could look out over the watering hole at all the animals.

In the main part of the hotel there is a restaurant which serves good food although not very memorable!

There are two bars and an outside 'patio' area where you can watch the animals at night as well as during the day. The watering hole was lit at night so you could still see all of the animals.

We found all of the staff to be incredibly helpful and friendly (as was everyone we had the pleasure of meeting whilst in Kenya).

The only animals we saw here were elephants, buffalos, giraffes and deer. There were also a lot of lizards and small birds wandering around the hotel grounds! Also, whilst out on our afternoon safari we went on a Rhino chase as they are quite close to the loge. Unfortunately we only managed to catch the back end of the rhino as he was moving away however we did have an exciting chase!

There is also an outdoor pool but to be honest we did not get chance to use the pools at any of the safari lodges as it was much more exciting sitting and watching the animals. There was plenty of time to laze around the pool when we got back to our hotel after being on safari!

June was a good month to go as the lodge was not particularly busy and if you don't have children there are not many around as it is not during school holiday season.

This is a good safari lodge however I would probably only advise staying here one night.

Summary: A good lodge although I think one night there was plenty.