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Forin Guest House: Forin Guest House
A BIG VT welcome to Kenya! You will be personally picked up from the airport (Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi) with a big smile and Karibu Sana! Driven to Mrs Owino's house or Guesthouse and afforded the best service.
I stayed here courtesy of our long time friend Mrs Janepher Owino. This is a guest house business she is running with an incredibly comfortable house, lots of room and attentive staff. It has internet connection, hot water and electricity. The Pics I am posting are of the house we stayed in on our last trip to Kenya in Jan 2011, but, as she is expanding her business, the house you stay in may be different. The quality and standard will remain the same.
The Lady provides more than you can possibly eat at breakfast. Cereals, toast, hot pancakes, sausages, eggs and tomatos, honey, jam, butter, tea in abundance, coffee, waffles and milk. I don't honestly think I stepped away from her table with a hole in my tummy. She also provides packed lunch with bottled water and dinner as extras.
She has a reliable taxi service for Day Trips to Giraffe Centre, Nairobi National Park, Bomas of Kenya, Karen Blixen's House, (you must have read Out Of Africa), Daphne Sheldrick's baby elephant orphanage, Nyumbani AIDS orphan home and many other trips you may want to see are all easily arranged. She has contact with Betty who is an amazingly safe driver with a big vehicle who can take you anywhere.
For shopping, Day Trips to The Village Market and the Masaai Market with a vast array of curios, bags, ornaments, masks, spears and shields. Biashara Street (where you can purchase at cost price all those fabrics like shukas kikoys and lessos). You will have help with regard to fair prices to pay for all you wish to buy.
Mrs Owino has the numbers for takeaways from Anghitis, the very BEST Indian restaurant in Nairobi. It will be delivered (from your restaurant menu) for your evening meal in about 45 mins. They will tell you in advance what the price is, please pay in cash. You can also order takeaway pizza or Italian. Depending on your schedule and stamina, it is sometimes better to eat at home as early starts are the norm before it gets too hot.
You can book with or without breakfast. Rooms are secure with lockable doors and cupboards.
Secure, relaxed. friendly and bountiful breakfast. You can relax in the garden, feed the birds, ask the staff to get you airtime for your phone, fruit or do your laundry.
Gardens are small but full of birdlife.
There are 4 rooms, I Master, en suite with balcony seating and extensive cupboard space
Two people, bed and breakfast $80 per night, single person $55 per night
Twin bed and shared bathroom $70 per night B & B, single person $45
Bed only two people Master ensuite $70, single person $50
Bed only two people Twin beds $65, single person $40
Whole house $250 per night and there are long stay discounts for 4 weeks or more.
If you had 8 people sharing the house with breakfast that would work out at $31.50 per night, which is very good value for Nairobi Area.
Tipping is at your discretion and paid directly to Mrs Owino.
