Thursday, December 2, 2010

Merica Hotel

Merica hotel is part of the bigger Merica group of hotels that has other hotels scattered in the Rift Valley, the Mara as well as other parts of the country. The hotel rates four star meaning that it is yet to be considered a first class, elegant hotel. This not with standing, the staff and personnel of the hotel are only too willing to offer first class professional services to its clients. The hotel is best known for its lush gardens that are often used as venues for picture taking for recent newly weds, since the scenery is too beautiful to ignore. The compound is just an inviting gesture into the hotel whose yellow and brown theme are an inviting gesture to guests; the theme also creates a relaxing ambiance for those needing a relaxing ambiance to walk into at the end of the day.
The hotel is known by locals for its unique ostrich resort that seeks to promote bird watching activities in the region and edutainment as well to its eager touring visitors. The ostrich have the biggest eggs of all among the bird species and it is no wonder that the ostrich eggs is offered as a breakfast item in its breakfast menu. They say that their eggs are the rich in magnesium nutrients for the building and strengthening of bones for the human body.
There is a bouquet of adventurous packages that the Merica hotel offers to the tourists that includes all sorts of spicy adventures and explorations in the Nakuru region as well as the expansive Mara region. It also has two exclusive board rooms/ conference rooms to cater for business needs of the client. If you are seeking an African gate- away into the wild wild safari, look no further, Merica is the best place for you. Perhaps you have told your beloved people that you are visiting Nakuru for the first time or Kenya for that matter and they have requested a few souvenirs to take back home, Merica has a well stocked curio shop that has all sorts of African carvings, paintings and a variety of unique sea shells. Even when your supplies are out of stock, don’t fret over it, the hotel also has a business centre with all kinds of quality supplies for you.
The attractions near the hotel are Lake Nakuru, the Lake Nakuru National park, and Nguba farm that happens to be a conservancy catering for sick and abandoned birds. Lake Bogoria is not too far from the hotel. The biggest of all Kenya attractions is Lake Elementaita, the biggest fresh water lake in the Rift valley escarpment. The Lake is also famous for the hordes of pink flamingo birds that parade themselves majestically along the shores of the lake. Merica also offers mountaineering activities for individuals, couples and groups on the dormant Menengai peak. The Mountain is known for its famous crater at the top that is about half a kilometer deep.
The hotel food prices range from about eight hundred shilling to fifteen hundred shillings which a fair price is considering that it has a variety of dishes on its menu that are common in the country and overseas to cater to a variety of individual taste buds of both its local and foreign clientele.

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