Thursday, December 2, 2010

Water –Buck Hotel

This hotel is situated in Nakuru town particularly on Biashara road that connects to the bigger Nakuru west road. The journey takes an average of a one hour drive from the city center as it is only thirty kilometers from the city on Nairobi. However a few tour guide offer airlifts to the hotel that has an air pad landing area.
This is known as one of the best hotels in Nakuru town. It was designed with an African theme in mind with African colors filling the entire hotel. These colors range from a deep, earthly red- brown to a warm orange sun like color that just seems to light up the mood and atmosphere of the entire place. The deep red- brown color helps to portray the rich, fertile African soil while the orange is a sign of the African sun and the warm nature of the Kenyan people. The red is also a symbol for the Maasai people in the land who are the S.I unit for the Kenyan people all over the world. Most pictures always show the Maasai Moran posing in a picture dressed in his red attire. It is also true to say that the Maasai people are one of the few communities in the country who still uphold many of the cultural rights and artifacts as compared to the other communities. However the Maasai are not the majority of people in the country.
The Water – Buck hotel is duly situated on the highlands of Nakuru over- looking the Thompsons Falls that are the most magnificent water falls around. The water can be seen falling from a height of fifty meters or so while forming a smoky and also mysterious to the entire scenery.
The fifty rooms of the hotel are lavishly furnished with comfortable and elegant furniture. The rooms are a combination of both double and single rooms (each room is en- suite) to suit the vast requirements of their clients. Both rooms are also fitted with warm showers, a personal butler attached to every room, wonderful room service as well as a telephone with unlimited calls to be made. The icing on the cake is that the rooms are also fitted with television sets (DSTV enabled) so that the client is able to keep abreast with local and international events while still on holiday.
Among the other facilities that are part of the Water- Buck hotel are a swimming pool, court yard as well as a gym and spa to relax the muscles after a hard day of sight seeing.
Lastly each room is fitted with a balcony to overlook the expansive Rift valley area. Tourists are often seen relaxing in the verandahs of the balconies as they enjoy the cool evening breeze as they sip tasty wine while they watch in awe the beautiful Rift Valley escarpment. Averagely the food is well cooked but it does not offer the extra- ordinary cuisines from Italy and the rest but none the less, the services are professionally done and that would somehow explain why the prices for food range between two thousand to three thousand shillings per plate.

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