Hotel Diani House

Imagine stepping out of your front door, walking down the garden to the warm, turquoise blue waters of the Indian Ocean!

That's exactly what we had when we stayed at Hotel Diani House Mombasa. Just the best place to be! Excellent chef, wonderful location, beautiful place and welcoming hosts! Helen and Richard are awesome.

The house is cozy and clean. Good to have a car to visit different places around and ask the hosts for best restaurants.

It's a guest house, not a hotel and we were very lucky to be the only guests staying there, and thus we had the undivided attention of all the staff and were able to take full advantage of all the superb facilities Diani House has to offer.

We stayed in the Family Cottage (Gecko) which is a picturesque building alongside the main house.

Diani House is as close as you can get to being a 'residential zoo' - the garden being filled with monkeys, dik-dik, exotic birds, trees and plants.

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Many of them quite rare, for example Colubus monkeys who spend the day romping over the roofs and amongst the tall trees.

With 250 feet of private beach stretching out to the reef in the distance, I felt very happy to be in that beautiful place.

Every morning at breakfast we could decide what we wanted to eat that evening - nothing was too much trouble from exotic fish to simple pasta it was all delicious and served with panache.

Out of interest I asked how Baobab fruit tasted - the same afternoon Ali had got some for us to try (having cycled to the market to get it especially for us!) and that is typical of the five-star service we enjoyed.

We spent hours on the beach or in the sea swimming, snorkling or body boarding. When you add to that our lucky swim with Dolphins at Wasini Island it was as close as we could get to paradise.

The atmosphere is completely relaxed and it's a truly beautiful place to be.

After a busy safari holiday it was superb to simply chill-out and be pampered for 6 nights in the luxury of Diani House and we all felt priveliged to be there and very sad to leave.