Nairobi has been named the best city in the world to visit in 2024. The ideal base for exploring it? This boutique hotel imbued with colonial elegance... and located just 20 minutes from the airport
MailOnline's Fiona Hardcastle checks into the family hotel House of Waine. Nairobi hotel is 'just the perfect place for an R&R emergency' READ MORE: The world's most expensive cities to live in revealed
'I don't want to go to a museum. I don't want to look at a market. I just want to lie down. I'm broken.'
It's a rare moment of abandon for 11-year-old Félix.
-with -font">But anyone who lands at Nairobi's Wilson Airport - named the best city to visit in 2024 by Lonely Planet - after a week-long safari will understand the deep exhaustion that comes from seven days of dawn, eight hours of breathtaking daily game drives and the "I've lost my mind" exhilaration that comes from looking leopards and lions in the eyes as they devour their prey in front of you and live to tell the tale. story.
The brain is overloaded. The heart is full. But hey, the body needs rest. And ideally, a dip in waters that aren't teeming with hippos and crocodiles.
As our jeep weaves through the morning chaos, the streets bustling with workers and street vendors, I begin to wonder if we will ever find an oasis of calm before catching our flight home the next morning.
'I don't want to go to a museum. I don't want to look at a market. I just want to lie down. I'm broken.'
It's a rare moment of abandon for 11-year-old Félix.
-with -font">But anyone who lands at Nairobi's Wilson Airport - named the best city to visit in 2024 by Lonely Planet - after a week-long safari will understand the deep exhaustion that comes from seven days of dawn, eight hours of breathtaking daily game drives and the "I've lost my mind" exhilaration that comes from looking leopards and lions in the eyes as they devour their prey in front of you and live to tell the tale. story.
The brain is overloaded. The heart is full. But hey, the body needs rest. And ideally, a dip in waters that aren't teeming with hippos and crocodiles.
As our jeep weaves through the morning chaos, the streets bustling with workers and street vendors, I begin to wonder if we will ever find an oasis of calm before catching our flight home the next morning.
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