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Rondo Retreat Centre - Details and Booking
Category:
Lodges
Location:
Kakamega
Description:
The Rondo Retreat Center is a hospitable homestead consisting of the main house of clapboard and colonial era corrugated iron, as well as five cottages in the same old style, whose proximity to the forest makes for delightful accommodation. There are fifteen en-suite double rooms, plus three more double rooms that share the large original bathroom in the main house. The rooms have individual deco. The bedrooms, sitting rooms and dining room have all been decorated and furnished with flair using things “old and new” – antique prints and photographs, and local paintings, crafts and fabrics.
Season Dates and Rates:
Dates/Room Type
Standard Single
Standard Double
Standard Triple
01-Jan-2012 To 31-Dec-2012
US$ 179
US$ 231
US$ 318
Please Note:
- Rates are based on half board accommodation in standard rooms and are inclusive of all taxes but are net of holiday supplements and park entrance fees
CHILD RATE: Available on request.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Reservations that are canceled, reduced in length of stay or reduced in numbers are subject to cancellation and no show fees.
**PLEASE NOTE: Prices and availability are subject to revision without prior notice owing to currency, tax, levy and seasonal fluctuations
Note: We also offer safari, car rentals and flight bookings which we can organize for you with your hotel/lodge enquiry.
Additional Details for Rondo Retreat Centre
Recreation Facilities:
Solar energy is available for lights, videos and tape-recorder.
The property boasts of an upper garden, alive with animals and birds, a fish pond and a chapel perched on the edge of the garden above a dramatic drop into the forest. The chapel is set apart from the other houses for solitude asking it ideal for individual prayer and congregational services, meetings, seminars and small conferences.
THE RONDO FOREST
The Rondo Forest which is home to Rondo Retreat Center is home to many natural attractaions including:
Trees of tremendous height, great girth and massive buttresses, hanging with lianas. A mix of lowland and highland species giving Kakamega Forest a unique variety of flora and fauna.
Flowers including 60 species of orchids and 9 are endemic (found only in Kakamega Forest). Rondo is proud to have some in its own garden plus many species of herbs and ferns.
The forest is best known for its sheer abundance and diversity of birdlife. Some 367 species have been recorded. 36 of the species that occur in and around Kakamega Forest are found nowhere else in Kenya.
There are representatives of every African family of butterflies. Regal and Broad Green-banded Swallowtails, the Black-tipped Diadem, the Forest Mother of Pearl, and Hobart’s Red Glider,can all be found here. Other interesting insects are the Goliath Beetle, Stick Insects and Fire Flies.
Monkeys, Giant Forest and Flying Squirrels, mongooses, civets, servals, and genets, smaller antelope such as duikers, and numerous species of bats can be found here.. The Hammer-headed Fruit Bat is endemic to Kakamega Forest, and is the largest bat on the African continent with a wing span of almost one meter.
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The Rondo Retreat Center is a hospitable homestead consisting of the main house of clapboard and colonial era corrugated iron, as well as five cottages in the same old style, whose proximity to the forest makes for delightful accommodation. There are fifteen en-suite double rooms, plus three more double rooms that share the large original bathroom in the main house. The rooms have individual deco. The bedrooms, sitting rooms and dining room have all been decorated and furnished with flair using things “old and new” – antique prints and photographs, and local paintings, crafts and fabrics.
