The Nyali Beach Hotel

Nyali Beach Hotel is set amid 20 acres of flamboyant tropical gardens and has been extensively refurbished and modernized while retaining its cultural charm. The hotel, which is one of the first beach hotels to be established in Mombasa, is rated as a 5 star accommodation.

It displays an impression of cool, whitewashed walls and tiled floors. There are ceiling fans, potted palms, cool marble and wicker furniture.The atmosphere is laid back and comfortable. There is a wide variety of accommodations from luxury suites to mature cottages. The main building has spacious older rooms while the Garden Wing rooms are more modern and spiral through the tropical gardens.The Garden Wing has a total of 122 twin rooms. The luxury Palm Wing has 52 rooms close to the sea, most with ocean views. These are spacious rooms with wood floors, satellite TV, radio and mini-bar. All rooms have modern bathrooms, air-conditioning, telephones and 24 hour room service.

HOTEL FACILITIES:
Bistro Mchana- Is a popular restaurant on the ground floor of the main building serves a la carte meals and a daily specialty which includes children’s menu.Mvita Grill- Located right on the beachfront this attractive thatched a la carte grill specializes in seafood. Our resident jazz trio is extremely popular with all guests.

Pool Terrace- Is an open- air terrace with a custom built barbeque area. It gives you a chance to dine as you get entertained by a 5- piece band.

Pizza Place - Beneath the pool terrace and alongside the pool edge is a pasta restaurant and ice cream parlor. A selection of pastas, pizzas and salad bars are served daily.

Parrots Terrace - Situated near the beach, this casual open plan thatched restaurant enables diners the opportunity to enjoy the cool sea breezes and watch the beaches many activities. This restaurant specializes in barbecued seafood.

L’Orangerie - This attractive split level dining room in the main building, serves breakfast and
sumptuous carvery dinners.

Harry’s Bar This air conditioned English style ‘pub’ is open daily from 5.00pm until midnight and from 1.00pm on weekends.

Fountain Lounge: The atmosphere of this attractive open plan lounge is enhanced by views over the pool terrace and serves a variety of drinks including Coffee, Cappuccino etc.

Noon’s Night Club: A modern disco where the resident DJ plays the latest hits as well as the best golden oldies.

Pool Bar: Share a drink with friends and have fun at the happy hour bar which is located by the main pool.

Lanes Bar: You can also choose to have your drink at the beach front, 20 meters away from the sea.

Leave your Work in The Office- Enjoy a Holiday

By TANIA NGIMA

Research shows that if you give in to the temptation to work from home, even if it is to check an email, you end up burning out and losing everything.

Imagine a scenario where the minute you get home your boss and co-workers call you incessantly with queries, requests and work. While this may seem like your work-life boundaries are being thwarted, it is exactly the same thing when you decide to do ‘just a bit of work’ from home.

We live in an era where the Blackberry and email-enabled phones and laptops create mobile offices for us while we’re on the go. Unfortunately, research shows that if you give in to the temptation to work from home, even if it is to check email, you end up working longer hours. This leads to lower long-term productivity.

Experiments by Henry Ford, an automobile manufacturer showed that working shorter hours increases the total work output and he popularised the 40-hour work week.

Proper relaxation leads to peak productivity when you get back to work; the hard part is how to ensure that you effectively relax and ‘leave work at work’.

Manage expectations

Avoid the impulse to quickly check your email or respond to a query if it is not urgent. For people who travel a lot in their line of work, there’s usually the need to fulfill your quota of tasks, all the while keeping on tabs back home.

Use the ‘out of office’ auto reply. There is a reason it was created. Unless yours is a one-man office and you’re the one man, leave instructions for who can be consulted in your absence and give a number to be reached on only in case of emergencies. Or don’t leave a number at all; office emergencies tend to be created, not real.

If you’re away on a holiday in Mombasa, leave as many gadgets as you can back home; the laptops, Blackberry and email devices. The anxiety that comes with not knowing what is going on back in the office will dissipate after a day or two.

Create boundaries

Being able to effectively create boundaries means you have capable colleagues who can handle matters arising in your absence or make judgment calls. If you don’t have this support framework then you will need to work hard to create it to prevent every query being something only you can handle.

If you work from home, set aside a defined room or a space to make boundary setting easier. Once you are through working for the day or the morning, physically stepping out of the space or room will help you switch off from work mode. And even though you may feel the need to put in 14-hour days into a business or venture that relies only on you to succeed, the danger is that you may end up burning out and losing everything altogether.

Plan ahead

To prevent the feeling that you have so much that has not been done from following you around, learn to keep a to-do-list.

Spend a few minutes at the beginning of each day looking at it and adding any new items on and a few minutes at the end of each day reviewing your progress and creating one for the next day.

Usually, the constant thoughts running through our heads about one thousand things to be done is just noise, the physical act of putting these tasks down on paper acts as a mental shift and relaxes your subconscious.

Beach getaway

By Wambui Thimba

When you go for a beach holiday, the last thing you want is to tug around bags of clothes. Travel light when you go anywhere warm by choosing pieces that work for day and night.

For an effortless beach look, wear light comfortable clothing like a sundress, flip flops, shorts, skirts and wrap-arounds such as kikoys and lesos.

Wear key accessories for a look that is chic yet functional. Don’t forget to carry a beach bag and a pair of sunglasses.

Take very little make-up. A moisturiser and waterproof mascara will be enough. Add sunscreen, some face powder and lip balm and you are ready for a fun and stylish holiday.

The weather in Kenyan beaches is mostly hot and sunny, you therefore do not want to wear any heavy clothing that will leave you feeling very uncomfortable.