Lonno Lodge Watamu

The Charming Lonno Lodge Watamu has very much to offer, heartwarming sun, an ever changing light, astonishing silence, refreshing breeze, breathtaking views, stunning food and privacy. Really, a lot of privacy. You can even rent the whole lodge for yourself, and for your guests too, if you wish so. From the cozy 42sqm deluxe room, to the huge 72sqm top tower room, you’ll never ever miss the ocean view and the sea breeze: they’re just in front of you. One or two bedrooms, up to 133 sqm, independent and with all the room you need to feel at home. A small indulgence for a well deserved holiday. Conveniently located beside the restaurant and the swimming pool, the bar is always available for a drink or a snack.

Architecture

The lodge is recently built using old construction techniques to allow the guests to savour times past. It is not made exclusively of tambours and the wild nature of our collective imagination, but also from times when the exchange of goods from Africa’s interior, like gold, ivory and spices, fostered the coast’s expansion, producing a lingua franca, a distinctive culture and a characteristic architectonic style: Swahili. Lonno Lodge is a mixture of styles and different shapes, almost as if the different populations also came in waves during the building process, rebuilding it, reorganising it and changing it around; leaving  their various imprints behind. This design method also required the recovery of materials and techniques which, without the assistance of energy and chemistry, have made the buildings hospitable.

Location

In fact we are inside the Watamu Marine Park and we are surrounded by the Mida Creek Protected Area on one side and the Arabuko Sokoke Forest on the other. Lonno Lodge is pretty small, compared to the industrial resorts, only four tower rooms and four historical suites: maximum relax, no noise and privacy for all the guests. It has no discotheque

Restaurant

For your comfort and convenience, we have an excellent restaurant inside the Lodge with international cuisine, paying special attention to local cuisine and personalized menus on simple request. The restaurant is reserved for guests only, allowing us to offer a quiet, peaceful and relaxed environment where every request receives due attention. Every evening, in fact, the following day’s menus, for both lunch and dinner, are made available to our guests who just need to let us know whether they’d like to stop in for lunch and/or dinner. Our cooks prepare dishes to order using fresh ingredients bought that morning at local markets and shops, thus supporting the regional economy. This provides you with the greatest freedom to choose without making advanced reservations obligatory. It is entirely up to you; day by day you can choose the following day’s program based on the weather or any excursions you have planned.

Activities

The swimming pool, filled with salt water, is the centre of the daily activites, or the centre of the relaxing activites, simply laying around is a pretty common sight at Lonno. Free use of sunbeds and towels, as well as water shoes for a romantic walk at low tide and mountain bikes for more adventurous rides in Watamu are available.