Manda Bay is a small Boutique Hotel, located on the North Western tip of Manda Island, in the Indian Ocean on the Kenyan coast offering personalised luxury beach holidays. Manda Island is one of the many unspoiled, idyllic islands of the Lamu archipelago. An exclusive resort, Manda Bay offers beautiful beach front accommodation, informal pampering and barefoot luxury. All the buildings are in keeping with the local landscape and are constructed using palm and driftwood and local building techniques.
There is a central dining room featuring locally crafted Lamu furniture and antiques, a large lounge and bar area on the waterfront and close by, a games room encompassing a fresh water swimming pool overlooking the creek and moorings. There is an air conditioned boutique and an upstairs sitting area with comfortable chairs, ideal for company meetings and reading. The bedrooms are spacious with en-suite bathrooms, overhead fans inside large walk-in mosquito netswater sports and overlook the Indian Ocean. Surrounded by miles of soft yellow sand, Manda Bay can offer a beach and bush experience with camp fires, star gazing, walks and lots of water sporting activities as well as peace and quiet.
The perfect retreat for families and honeymooners alike. The lodge is personally hosted and the management takes every care to cater to your needs. Manda is well known for its excellent cuisine, water sports and deep sea fishing for Marlin and Sailfish. Aside from watching the ebb & flow of the tides, Manda Bay is only a 20 min boat ride to Lamu – the oldest Swahili town of Islamic Culture dating back to the 13th Century and a world Heritage Site. The Manda Settlement, the oldest Ruins recorded on the East African Coast is situated within walking distance of the lodge and surrounded by 100 year old baobab trees. With no threat to the wildlife , bush buck and Cape Buffalo graze in the pastures on the Manda Estate next to the private airfield.
All the buildings are constructed with local materials in traditional coastal style, with palm thatch roofs and woven matting covering the floors.
The cottages are spacious and comfortable with their own bathrooms; they are specially sited to catch the cooling sea breezes and all have verandas.
Each room has a small fridge to keep your drinks cool.
Each bathroom has a shower, twin basins and toilet.
There are sixteen cottages with a choice of double or twin beds, surrounded by large flowing mosquito nets and cooled by overhead fans inside the nets.
Eleven of these rooms are on the beachfront, and five are behind and above the first five beachfront rooms.
Manda bay has an open air dining room overlooking the ocean, which we use for breakfast and lunch. Tables are arranged for individual groups or couples as they wish. The informal dining room and sitting rooms are comfortable, open and airy. They enjoy uninterrupted views of Manda Bay whose ever-changing waters attract birds, small local sailing craft and spectacular marine life. All rooms are furnished in vibrant Kenyan fabrics, specially designed to compliment the environment.
All meals are relaxed and casual, served in the dining room, on the beach, or even on Utumaduni our traditional sailing dhow.
The availability of wonderful, fresh seafood and tropical fruit dictates most menus but Manda Bay offers wholesome, nutritious home-cooked menus from all over the world to suit any palate. Our Swahili chefs can easily cater to the demands of children and those on special diets.
There is a seperate sitting room and bar area on the waterfront which we use mainly during the day and pre-dinner drinks in the evenings. We also have an upstairs comfortable sitting / reading room for adults.
We have an air conditioned Boutique which has many ornamental gifts, clothes, paintings as well as the bare essentials.
Lastly, we have a large games room and swimming pool area situated on the beach closeby to all the watersports activities. This is ideal for children and well enough away so not to disturb the other guests.
