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IMPERIAL HOTEL - LAKE VICTORIA (KENYA):
Imperial Hotel - Kisumu is situated in the heart of Africa and on the shores of the World's second largest fresh water lake - Lake Victoria, and only three and a half hours by road from the famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Kisumu is strategically linked via airways, railways, waterways, and roads.
The hotel has a reputation of upholding traditional hospitality values despite the changing times. As the region's natural choice for quality conscious business and leisure travelers, Imperial Hotel offers personalised service with elegance and style that meet the discerning needs of every individual guest. The location of the hotel makes it more convenient to the business executive fraternity, which would relieve them from hectic official engagements.
The hotel has the potential to tap guest's demand for interesting food and beverage concepts in the region. The stand-out style and services are tailored to suit guests' demand, which attracts business from all segments and nationalities.
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Accommodation:
The decor of the guest rooms provides a wonderful blend of practical comfort and style. The rooms are carpeted and equipped with a telephone, radio and music. They are also fully air-conditioned, which makes it ideal for any guest longing for a comfortable night where the tropical heat is tamed.
Suites:
Suites include a state/presidential suite equipped with innovative and luxurious modern amenities such as excellent bathrooms, good lighting system, multi-channel 28" colour television sets, mini bars, and a four-poster canopy bed.
The suites are spacious to meet the guest leisure and business demands as well as privacy, with little extras like a personal tea/coffee making facility and a basket of assorted fruits.
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Each suite features an ergonomically designed work area, which carries through the art decor feel without giving up comfort. For historic memento, suite 501 has art decor furnishings intensifying the historic ambiance of the Lamu ethnic group found in the Kenyan coastal region. The architectural influence gives the room a welcoming look. The suites are exclusively on the fifth floor of the hotel.
Deluxe Rooms:
Deluxe rooms are elegant rooms found on the third and fourth floors of the hotel. they are extremely comfortable and the internal decor has a relaxing mood.
The Deluxe rooms are equipped with at least a multi-choice channel big screen television set. To suit the guest's demand, mini bars are also available.
Standard Rooms:
Despite the absence of televisions in these rooms, the standard rooms are comfortable and even better for guests who would not like any kind of disturbances. The amenities therein are accommodating enough and they are the value of the guest's expenditure. |
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Facilities and Services:
The elegant Banqueting Hall and function rooms provide unsurpassed facilities for up to 400 guests- perfect for everything from small meetings or intimate gatherings to full scale business conferences, cocktail parties or wedding receptions. They are all equipped with audio-visual equipment, and offer excellent conference facilities in a conducive atmosphere.
For the guest with time to spare, a work out at the gym, fishing, picnic at the lakeside, golf, boating and water skiing can be arranged. Our superb swimming pool located within the hotel comes in handy for all guests at any time.
Relax and converse with friends in our cozy Victoria Terrace Bar or enjoy the birds-eye view of Kisumu from the Shalimar.
Wine and dine at the Florence Restaurant, a uniquely delightful place that has inherited the old name of Port Florence - now Kisumu.
Located on the first floor of the hotel, the restaurant has extensive multi-cultural cuisine, offering a varied faire of European, Indian, and local dishes, including freshly caught fish from Lake Victoria.
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The linen and furniture provide a welcoming and relaxed mood for the hotel's all-day dining equipped with varied menus to suit the guest's choice. To complete our services, Imperial Hotel offers Internet services, fax, photocopying and other secretarial facilities to guests. Laundry facilities are available for same day service. A safe deposit facility is available on request to secure guests' valuables. |
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LAKE VICTORIA:
Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world and covers 67,483 sq km. The lake is not part of the rift valley system and, at only 100 meter deep, is very wide and shallow compared to other bodies of water. Lake Victoria acts as a boundary between Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, yet international water travel between the countries is no longer possible. The only lake excursions available occur between Kisumu and ports farther south. Kenya actually owns only a tiny 3,785 sq km corner of the lake.
The lake attracted great interest from Europeans after its discovery. In 1858, John Hanning Speke was the first European to cite the vast lake as the source of the White Nile. The assertion was ridiculed until H.M. Stanley eventually proved him right in 1875. The colonial powers had hoped to open a navigable route along the Nile to the Mediterranean. Their attempts to reach Uganda across the lake were also responsible for the creation of the East African Railway and the colonization of the Kenyan Highlands.
Kisumu is the third largest town in Kenya with a population of approximately 160,000. The town was originally founded as the inland railhead of the East African Railway in 1901. Kisumu had been a busy port town since its early days, but the break up of the East African Community in 1977 coupled with the cessation of international ferry services on the lake substantially slowed the town's once bustling pace.
Kisumu boasts some interesting sites in addition to Lake Victoria. Impala Park is a game sanctuary and animal orphanage and home to the rare sitatunga antelope. Hippo Point is famed as an exceptional vantage point for viewing hippo, not to mention Lake Victoria's spectacular sunsets. Also of interest is the Kisumu Museum which features a display of local traditional customs and crafts. Outside there is a Luo homestead consisting of the husband's mud and thatch home and separate houses for each wife. The Kisumu market, one of the busiest and largest in Kenya, provides a fascinating glimpse into the day to day existence of the peoples of Western Kenya. Kisumu is probably the best place to buy Kisii soapstone carvings and the Wanachi Craft Shop near town, a local cooperative, features crafts made by local women.
There are numerous small villages around Lake Victoria of interest to the traveler. Ndunga Beach, a fishing village near Kisumu, is a wonderful place to experience the traditional lifestyle of the lake fishermen. Local villagers can be hired to provide canoe tours through the papyrus reed beds to see hippos and birds. Mfangano Island has some obscure rock paintings and a small fishing village. Ndere National Park, a 4.2 km island game park features snakes, hippos, crocodiles, sitatunga and numerous species of water bird.
Near the small town of Homa Bay is the volcano shaped Mt. Homa and Ruma National Park. This 120 sq km park encloses the Lambwe Valley. Most of the animals found here have been imported, including Kenya's only herd of roan antelope. Rusinga Island is home to an exclusive fishing camp and the tomb of Tom Mboya (1930-1969), the nationalist leader assassinated in Nairobi during the political unrest of the late 60's. Mary Leakey first put this tiny island on the map with her discovery of a 3 million year old skull belonging to Proconsul Africanus. Additional fossils were also found dating back 17 million years.
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