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Norfolk Hotel

  City/Modern Hotels - Nairobi - Capital City, KENYA




The Norfolk has an incomparable history and has often been called one of the world's most romantic hotels. Nairobi as a capital city grew up all around the Norfolk.


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Norfolk Hotel Location
Set within the cosmopolitan Kenyan capital of Nairobi, the Norfolk Hotel has impressed generations of visitors with its unfailing high standards of service, luxurious style, hospitality and comfort. From the new and old worlds the first guests came, many of noble birth. The guest list made its name as a legend then and still does so today.

Norfolk Hotel Activities
Fly-In Wildlife Self Drive Walking Culture Hotel Shopping Conference Facility Photography Birding Spa Golf Sport Facility Day Tour Swimming Pool Child Friendly Price Range - East Africa: $150 to $249

Norfolk Hotel Attractions
Artefacts from the hotel's history are dotted around including a sedan chair from the colonial era. The Norfolk Hotel offers all the comforts of a modern first class hotel yet combine it with an intriguing sense of history. Opened on Christmas Day 1904, (and still justifiably famous for its Christmas Morning cocktail party) the Norfolk has hosted such luminaries as Lord Delamere, Theodore Roosevelt and Karen Blixen. Now expensively refurbished the hotel still retains a sense of history.

Norfolk Hotel Facilities
The exterior of the Norfolk Hotel has changed little since the colonial era. Timbered walls covered in vines and creepers, the taxi rank with old London cabs queuing to take guests where they will, look much the same as they did in the old photographs that chart the history of Kenya. The new reception areas of the Norfolk Hotel are light, bright and immediately welcoming. Ceiling fans, cane chairs, plump animal-print cushions and deep sofas combine with locally sourced woods to create a tranquil ambience with echoes of the colonial period in which the Norfolk featured so strongly. However, not all is new - the long case clock in the hall, for example, was presented to the hotel by the drivers in the Nairobi to Johannesburg Race on 26th October, 1936. The Ibis Restaurant, at the Norfolk, is renowned locally for its innovative use of the best and freshest of ingredients Kenya has to offer. The executive chef ensures that the chefs gain experience in the finest hotels and restaurants in Europe. The cosmopolitan cuisine features classic and new dishes exquisitely prepared, and finely tuned as to seasoning and accompaniments. The chic clientele bear witness to the restaurants popularity. The Lord Delamere Terrace and Restaurant offers less formal dining. Here you may take a light meal or indulge in the sumptuous themed buffets. The Hibiscus lounge is ideal for a colonial-style afternoon tea. Accommodation at the Norfolk varies from large opulent suites to smaller, more intimate rooms. All are beautifully furnished and many look out onto the hotel's lovely gardens. The grounds are immaculate and profusely planted with indigenous plants.

Norfolk Hotel Additional Information
Activities at the Norfolk include; a heated swimming pool and pool bar, a fitness centre with sauna, steam bath and aerobics classes and a business centre with secretarial services

Norfolk Hotel Children Policy
Children 0-2 years = Free
Children 3-12 years sharing a room with parents 50% of PPS rate.

Nearest City: NAIROBI
Check In Time: 12:00:00 PM
Check Out Time: 10:00:00 AM




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