Indian Ocean Beach Club, Mombasa, Kenya

The Jacaranda Indian Ocean Beach Club is in a prime location on a quiet stretch of white sand bordering a Marine Park on the Indian Ocean, and within an easy driving distance from Mombasa Airport. Designed in Swahili style, and situated next to a 16th century mosque, The Indian Ocean Beach Club has a hundred rooms in clusters of thatched cottages and double storey whitewashed rooms with flat roofs. In reception, check out the century old crystal chandelier given to the Sultan of Zanzibar by British traders for landing rights and move through to the gardens to stare at the six hundred year old baobab trees before your brain turns to porridge on the second day.  The pounding of the surf, the background rasp of cicadas and the rhythmic waft of your ceiling fan all conspire to make you let go and relax.  If you can't muster the energy to make it to the beach there's a freeform laptop pool and three plunge pools scattered around the grounds. The atmosphere is relaxed, the staff are friendly and unobtrusive, there are smiles and greetings everywhere. The Indian Ocean Beach Club is in a class of its own for genuine hospitality, faultless service and intrinsic charm. You won't want to leave.  FACILITIES "Spices" serves breakfast and dinner imaginatively on the first floor to catch the sea breeze, lunch is available on The Ocean Terrace, while the Baliari Cove is an open air, à la carte restaurant practically on the beach and features the finest shellfish and Swahili seafood. The dhow bar on the beach,  which has its own collection of multi-trunked baobabs, serves cocktails and mocktails and is a perfect place for a couple of sundowners. Given a choice of venue for a conference at the coast most people would choose The Indian Ocean Beach Club.  The Trader's Room is fully equipped to handle a conference or a cocktail party for up to a hundred people.  And for a wedding it's out of this world.   No. of Bedrooms 100 deluxe club rooms with en suite bathrooms, and balconies or patios.  Each room has beautifully designed and crafted furniture plus air-conditioning, a hair dryer, concealed mini-bar and direct dial telephones Activities Windsurfing, catamaran sailing and pedalos are free.  Deep sea fishing in the famed Pemba Channel is extra and you can qualify on a PADI or SSI course in four days at the hotel's resident diving school. Find Similar Properties