Name: Watamu Bay Ora Resort
Address: Watamu - Kenya, Watamu, Watamu, Watamu, 80202, Kenya
Rating: 9

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Malindi Airport

Vipingo Airport

Watamu Bay Ora Resort

Getting to this place is a pain in the neck but once you reach there, it's the most relaxing place in the entire Watamu surroundings. The swimming pools are neat and clean while the rooms are very luxurious. The staff is friendly, especially the GM. Would definitely go back there but this time for a week at least.

I've stayed here twice and absolutely love it with our family!  The food is one of the best at the coast with variety on the buffet for everyone to find their niche.  Excellent Italian flare to the food and great seafood choices!  Our children loved the pool options and the beach at low tide is extraordinary.  You can walk all the way out to the reef and float back with the incoming tide in a channel just like a 'real' lazy river.  highly recommend for the value!

A wonderful hotel and I Loved the ambience and the hospitality from the staff.The management was handy to help.The only thing they have to find ways of improving their access road which was unfortunately poor.

The resort is ideal for those seeking to get away from the 'hustle & bustle" of the city.
Located about 15km from Malindi town,the dirt road to the hotel resort through African villages.
The ocean view from the resort is romantic as most of the rooms face the Indian Ocean with a beautiful beach..
A perfect place for relaxing and a get-away from "normal life"...I would say it's made for couples and those who really want to relax!

... I was disappointed with the quality of the service, especially from the management.

We, as a couple visited this hotel for 2011 silvester. This is a huge resort, with clean and new facility, also there was a big party to celebrate 2012. In generall, is a lively hotel with great ocean view, but too huge to provide a high quality service to each customer. Good for huge entartainment resort-lover, but not so much impressed.

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Fantastic!

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Wonderful Hotel

Perfect place to get away" secret hideout" but not ideal for anyone who wants just more than relaxing holiday as the hotel is located on a dirt road and nothing nearby! The food is okay but no way for vegetarians! The staff knows mostly  Italian and do not know whether food is  veg or nonveg! Bad experiece there! The local spirits are not upto standard compared to other all inclusive hotels ,the bar is very (un)impressive & no snacks in an all inclusive hotel. The rooms do not have tea/coffee making facilities like other hotels. Perfect hotel for sea food lovers :)

Okay Hotel -

Not so bad, but just a resort hotel

Unfriendly stuff and management. rooms are clean but very poor equiped. food ok but dictated by groups of italien and french tourist. every information only in french and italien available. whole garden area looks like desert.beacharea not very beautifulI cannot recommend this hotel even if the price was low. there are much better option for this price.

even for low money not to recommend

Recommend for the structure and setting but...

The Ora website map has the hotel positioned within walking distance of Watamu. This was a deciding factor in choosing the hotel as Turtle bay has magnificent snorkelling and numerous good restaurants and bars. Plus I had friends staying in the area.
The truth is... The hotel is a long way towards Malindi on a very bad dirt road with NO adjacent facilities. I.e when you're in the hotel, there is really nowhere else to go.
Finding the hotel was again an issue. I used the map from their website and google maps on my phone, only to find myself driving round in circles. I tried calling the numbers on the website but none were active.
On finally reaching the hotel I pointed this out to the Italian lady that greeted us, only to be met with indifference. 
The map on their site is truly misleading and I would not have booked if I had known the reality.

On Checking into the room we discovered that the curtains were too small to cover the windows. We had to rig up cushions and pin the curtains together with safety pins. Nearly $400 a night? What a joke.

I was booked all inclusive. You should ask them what that means because it"s certainly not my idea of what all inclusive is.

We asked for an extra blanket or bed sheet only to be told they didn't have any.

The food was at best mediocre and sometimes (for example prawns that were not cleaned and powdery) inedible. That's got to be the first time I've gone away for Christmas and NOT put on weight.

All in all not a nice experience. What a shame.

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