Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East

Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East National Park is situated on a 50-acre site on the boundary of Tsavo East National Park and accommodates up to 300 guests. The lodge is just 5 kilometers off the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, 340 kilometers from Nairobi, and about 165 kilometers from Mombasa.

The lodge is ideally placed for visitors wishing to combine a ‘bush’ and ‘beach’ safari holiday in Kenya, with its accessibility to Tsavo National Park and its proximity to the coast.  Voi Wildlife Lodge was established in 2003 and is situated on a 25-acre site just outside the national park boundary. A crescent of workmanlike stone-built, airily thatch-roofed buildings linked by broad timbered walkways, set amongst green grounds and overlooking a large murram-red waterhole that was jointly constructed with the Kenya Wildlife Service.

It enjoys spectacular views of nearby volcanic outcrops, such as the Kasigau, Sagalla, and Mwakingali Hills. Designed to blend unassumingly into the surrounding environment, the lodge boasts a natural waterhole often attracting big game, including elephant, lion, cheetah, buffalo, as well as a rich variety of birdlife.

The joint mass of Tsavo West National Park and Tsavo East National Park forms one of the largest national parks in the world and covers a massive 4% of Kenya’s total land area. Tsavo East, equidistant between Nairobi and Mombasa, is painted on a sprawling canvas of endless skies, emerald hills, liquid lava flows, palm-fringed rivers, teeming wildlife, and sparkling oases, set against the unforgettable backdrop of mile upon mile of cloud-shadowed African savannah.

Voi Wildlife Lodge accommodation

Accommodating up to 300 guests, all rooms have spacious en-suite bathrooms and are furnished in African decor that is replicated throughout the lodge. The accommodation in total is 72 rooms. The luxury rooms comprise two four-poster beds and views of the Savannah, which one can enjoy from the comfort of one’s balcony or terrace. 

The lodge also has tents with en-suite bathrooms. Each tent accommodates two beds and gives you the feeling of camping in the wild. There are a number of rooms specifically designed to cater to disabled guests close to the reception.

Voi Wildlife Lodge Location 

✓ With 2 daily stops, the SGR Voi Station is only a 15-minute drive to the lodge
✓ Easy to reach by road, SGR, and air, the lodge is only a 4-hour drive from Nairobi and just a 2-hour drive from Mombasa
✓ Tsavo East airstrip is located only 5 5-minute drive from Voi Wildlife Lodge, where charters are available to destinations throughout Kenya

Voi Wildlife Lodge Accommodation

The lodge offers 72 rooms and additional tented accommodation. All rooms are en-suite and feature African décor and private verandas. Rooms for the physically challenged are available. Laundry services are available.

Voi Wildlife Lodge Dining and bars

The large central dining room (capable of seating 250) offers buffet-style meals and boasts an entirely separate vegetarian kitchen. There is also an open-air rondavel bar, and a raised promenade to an out-shot ‘Spa Bar’ where soft cream sofas look out over the waterhole, the guardian marabou storks, the acacia-feathered horizons of Tsavo East and, according to the staff, regular visitations from elephant and lion, both of which are attracted by the Lodge’s unwavering supply of water to their pond.

Child-friendly

The lodge welcomes children; babysitting services are available, a children’s pool area, and an educational centre.

Other facilities

The lodge offers a small gym (charged additionally). The lodge offers a variety of activities for families, including a children’s outdoor recreation area, swimming pool and jacuzzi, two badminton courts, a volleyball court, conference facilities, as well as table tennis and a pool table. There is also a Discovery Area complete with a mini-library, TV, and DVD facilities.

What to see and do

✓ Game Drives (in the lodge’s 9-seater minivan): Experience the real safari – morning and afternoon game drives through the park with our trained driver-guides. Picnic lunches and sundowners can be provided.

Tsavo offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world – vast herds of dust-red elephant, fat pods of hippo, giant crocodile, teeming herds of plains game, a fantasia of bird life, and some magical flora.

✓ Bush lunches and dinners: Private ‘bush’ lunches and dinners can be arranged in the bush, complete with waiters, private bar and private BBQ cooking station, campfires and hurricane lamps.

✓ Aruba Dam: Aruba Dam is an 85-hectare man-made dam built by the Parks authorities in 1952 to staunch the waters of the seasonal Voi River, which flows down from the Taita Hills in the southwest. It usually holds water throughout the year and is frequented by huge numbers of ibis, many grey herons, and a kaleidoscope of other water birds.
It is also part of the territory of a large pride of lions, which can often be seen in the vicinity of the dam.

✓ Kanderi Swamp: The Kanderi Swamp lies near Voi Gate and during the dry months provides one of only two drinking areas in Tsavo East, thus attracting large herds of buffalo, impala, and antelopes as well as yellow baboons and lion.

✓ Mudanda Rock: Kenya’s answer to Ayer’s Rock of Australia is called Mudanda Rock, a massive 1.5km whale-backed rock which rears out of the shrub between Manyani Gate and Voi and is famous for its photo-opportunities, offering marvellous light, panoramic vistas, and an excellent chance of prime wildlife shots. It is also an excellent vantage point from which to look down on the natural dam below, which can, at times, attract hundreds of elephants. This area is also known as a favourite leopard haunt, though daytime sightings are rare.

✓ The Galana River: The Tsavo and Athi Rivers join above Lugard’s Falls to form the Galana River, which then flows down to the Indian Ocean. A major feature of the park, the serpentine reaches of this river are fringed by riverine forests dominated by Acacia elatior, the Doum Palm Hyphaene compressa, and the shrub Suaeda monoica.

✓ Lugard’s Falls: Named after Britain’s first proconsul in East Africa, Captain (later Lord) Lugard, the falls are better described as rapids than falls, progressing from foaming cataracts to narrow cascades that gouge deep into the gneiss bedrock, creating fantastic shapes that have been surreally rounded by thousands of years of rushing water.

Mighty when in full spate, the falls gush through a small fissure, narrow enough for the foolhardy to leap across, before plunging to the pool below, where massive crocodiles bask motionless in the sun.

There is a parking area at the falls, and visitors either climb around the bizarrely eroded rocks or walk down the river to view the rapids. 1km east of the falls, another short diversion takes you to Crocodile Point, where hippos and buffalo wallow and zip-jawed crocodiles grin.

✓ The Yatta Plateau, an ancient valley frozen in time: The Yatta plateau is a ridge or tongue of lava about 300km long and a maximum of 10km wide, which forms a seemingly never-ending backdrop to Tsavo East. One of the longest lava flows in the world, the Yatta affords fabulous views across the rolling reaches of the Park, is an ornithological paradise, and makes a peerless sundowner or picnic spot.

It is made up of a form of lava known as phonolite, which is between 11 and 13.6 million years old. Current thought suggests that the Yatta Plateau was formed when a stream of lava flowed across the land until it found its way into an ancient river valley.

The lava then flowed down the valley, taking on the shape of its contours, until eventually it cooled and solidified. Thereafter, the surrounding land was gradually lowered by erosion, leaving the frozen river of lava standing up as a ridge.

Tsavo East National Park Location

Tsavo East National Park is easily accessible by air and road, and is approximately 160 kilometers from Mombasa and 326 kilometers from Nairobi. The lodge stands outside the Park boundaries, 5 km from the main Nairobi-Mombasa highway.

Theatre of the Wild

The joint mass of Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks forms one of the largest national parks in the world and covers a massive 4% of Kenya’s total land area. Tsavo East, one of the last great wilderness landscapes on Earth, offers a vast arena of parched scrub and heat-shimmering bush, which is washed by the azure waters and emerald-fringed meanderings of the Galana River, guarded by the limitless lava reaches of the Yatta Plateau and patrolled by some of the largest elephant herds in the world.

Tsavo West, land of lions and lava, is painted on a sprawling canvas of endless skies, emerald hills, liquid lava flows, palm-fringed rivers, teeming wildlife, and sparkling oases, where rafts of hippo wallow, snort, and blow in the crystal clear melt waters of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Kenya’s largest National Park supports all the members of the ‘Big Five’ as well as the country’s largest elephant population. Tsavo achieved notoriety in the 1900s when ‘the Man-eaters of Tsavo’, a pair of rogue man-eating lions, preyed gruesomely on the builders of the Uganda Railway. Today, the Park is more famous for the numerous prides of maned lions that patrol the plains and police the herbivore herds.

Wildlife highlights: elephant, lion, hippo, rhino, zebra, hartebeest, lesser kudu, eland, waterbuck, Grant’s gazelle, impala, gerenuk, giraffe, dik dik and klipspringer. Birds: 600 recorded species.

Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East Non-Resident Accommodation Rates Per Night Include;

Full Board Accommodation

Notes

* Half board Reduction 2 US Dollars
* Bed & Breakfast Reduction 3 US Dollars
* Children under 6 years of age stay for free
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child in own room – 75% of an adult single rate 
* Children aged 6-13 years -per child sharing with 1 adult – less than 50 Usd of an adult single rate
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing with 2 adults – 50% of adult p/p double sharing rate
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing with 3 or more adults – 50% of adult per person triple sharing rate 
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing own room with another – 75% of adult per person double sharing rate 

Meals

* Lunch – 25 US Dollars
* Dinner – 30 US Dollars
* Breakfast – 25 US Dollars
* Packed Lunch – 20 US Dollars
* Extra Lunch on Day of Departure – 20 US Dollars
* Bush Dinner (Alcoholic Minimum 6 guests – 30 US Dollars
* Sundowners (Alcoholic) Minimum 6 guests – 30  US Dollars
* Sundowners Non-alcoholic Minimum 6 Guests – 25 US Dollars
* Bush Dinner (Non-Alcoholic Minimum 6 guests – 25 US Dollars
* Bush Breakfast (Non-Alcoholic) Minimum 6 guests – 25 US Dollars
* 1 Meal Drinks Package: (Water/Soda/Beer) Per Meal – 10 US Dollars
* 2 Meal Drinks Package: (Water/Soda/Beer) Per Meal – 15 US Dollars

Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East Resident Accommodation Rates Per Night Include;

Full Board Accommodation

Notes

* Half board Reduction 300 Kenya Shillings
* Bed & Breakfast Reduction 400 Kenya Shillings
* Children under 6 years of age stay for free
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child in own room – 75% of an adult single rate 
* Children aged 6-13 years -per child sharing with 1 adult – less than 30 Usd of an adult single rate
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing with 2 adults – 50% of adult p/p double sharing rate
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing with 3 or more adults – 50% of adult per person triple sharing rate 
* Children aged 6-13 years – per child sharing own room with another – 75% of adult per person double sharing rate 

Meals

* Lunch – 2,500 Kenya Shillings
* Dinner –3,000 Kenya Shillings
* Breakfast – 2,200 Kenya Shillings
* Packed Lunch – 2,000 Kenya Shillings
* Extra Lunch on Day of Departure – 2,000 Kenya Shillings
* Bush Dinner (Alcoholic Minimum 4 guests – 3,000 Kenya Shillings
* Sundowners (Alcoholic) Minimum 4 guests – 3,000 Kenya Shillings
* Bush Dinner (Non-Alcoholic Minimum 4 guests – 2,500 Kenya Shillings
* Sundowners (Non-alcoholic Minimum) 4 Guests – 2,500 Kenya Shillings
* Bush Breakfast (Non-Alcoholic) Minimum 4 guests – 2,500 Kenya Shillings
* 1 Meal Drinks Package: (Water/Soda/Beer) Per Meal – 1,000 Kenya Shillings
* 2 Meal Drinks Package: (Water/Soda/Beer) Per Meal – 1,500 Kenya Shillings

Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East has 88 guestrooms comprising 24 luxury rooms, 48 superior, 16 standard rooms, and 20 tented rooms which can accommodate up to 300 guests. Each guestroom features a 4-poster bed, mosquito net, and a verandah furnished with safari chairs.

The tented rooms have zip-up entrances and feature double or twin beds, a mosquito net, and a stand fan. The bathrooms are attached at the back and each has a flush toilet and safari shower.

The onsite restaurant; Tembo Restaurant is constructed using local makuti thatch and offers a unique dining experience with views across the plains of Tsavo East and the nearby waterhole.

The restaurant serves a wide selection of international and vegetarian cuisine. Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East has conference halls that can accommodate up to 600 guests. The halls are air-conditioned and have state-of-the-art equipment. There is a well-manicured garden that is ideal for weddings and other outdoor functions.

The Safari Spa Bar and lounge offer a spectacular game-viewing platform both at night and day. The bar is designed on stilts overlooking the waterhole and offers a wide range of alcoholic and soft drinks.

Next to the Tembo Restaurant is the Mandhari Bar which provides an alternative setting in which to view games and enjoy a sundowner before dinner.

The Safari Spa has a steam bath, sauna, Jacuzzi, cold bath, and 5 treatment rooms. The spa treatments include massage, reflexology, and aromatherapy which are perfect for body rejuvenation.

There is a health club that comprises a well-equipped gymnasium, with an adjacent room designed for aerobics and yoga classes. The club has qualified instructors to assist guests with the equipment and fitness sessions. There is also a Discovery Area complete with a mini-library, TV, and DVD facilities.

Activities at Voi Wildlife Lodge Tsavo East include; a children’s outdoor recreation area, a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, 2 badminton courts, a volleyball court as well as table tennis, and a pool table. Guests can also enjoy game drives, bush walks, bird watching, and game viewing.

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