Mara Serena Safari Lodge :: Holiday Destinations

ABOUT MARA SERENA SAFARI LODGE :

An interpretation of a traditional Masai Manyatta village of domed huts, Mara Serena Safari Lodge is set on the saddle of a hill where it overlooks the 1,800 square kilometers of rolling plains, woodlands and rivers that make up the Masai Mara Triangle - one of the world's richest wildlife sanctuaries. No other lodge has such a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape or the game and birdlife that inhabit it. It is on this very terrain stretching endlessly before the lodge where the annual migrations take place, where millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle traverse the landscape to feed on the rich new grass and give birth to their young.

GUEST ROOM INFORMATION

Total Guest Rooms: (all en suite with bath and shower) 74

Rooms with two twin beds: 72

Rooms with double bed: 2

Check in time: 14:00

Check out time: 11:00

GUEST SERVICES AND AMENITIES

Outdoor pool with lounge chairs, tables, umbrellas and fresh towels
Communication available via telephone, fax and radio
Currency exchange open 24 hours
American Express, Mastercard, Visa and Barclays credit cards accepted by cashier
Nurse on call 24 hours. Flying Doctors Service is also available which includes emergency Medivac to hospital from nearby airstrip
Daily laundry/pressing service
Driver and maid accommodation
Boutique with curios, clothing, jewellery, batiks, books, maps, lotions, films, stamps etc.
Early supper for children upon request
Babysitting can usually be arranged with sufficient notice
Shoe shining
Lunch boxes, fruit, flowers and celebration cakes may be ordered
Central safety deposit service available, free-of-charge- at the reception desk
Voltage is 240V - 50Hz in rooms; shaver outlets have both 110V and 240V. Adaptors available at the reception desk
Petrol station (diesel, regular and super petrol). Minor repairs like tyre changing available.
Patches, battery electrolyte, brake fluid, tyres and tubes of popular safari vehicles available

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GUEST ROOMS :

An architectural echo of the traditonal Maasai manyatta (village) of domed huts, the guest rooms of Mara Serena are styled and arranged to blend into the natural landscape. Every room is an individual "hut" - spread out to give each one uninterrupted views of the plains, the meandering riverine forest and the silhouetted hills beyond.

GUEST ROOM INFORMATION

Total Guest Rooms: (all en suite with bath and shower)	74

Rooms with two twin beds:	72

Rooms with double bed:	2

Check in time:	14:00

Check out time:	11:00

DINING & BAR :

The main dining room is spectacularly decorated in three large domes and three small ones resembling enlarged Maasai manyattas. Sumptuous international menus, buffets and barbecues are served to guests alongside authentic African dishes.

The full-service lounge and bar located in the main building serves fresh fruit juices, soft drinks, tea and coffee, cocktails, wines, spirits and liqueurs.

Dining Room

Seating capacity 160.

Breakfast: 6:30 am to 9:30 am

Lunch: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Dinner: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Lounge and Main Bar

Seating capacity 80.

Full service bar open from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm

GAME VIEWING :

The 1,700 square kilometer Maasai Mara Game Reserve is one of the world's richest wildlife sanctuaries and shares the same ecosystem as its neighbor - the Serengeti National Park. Virtually every common species of East African wildlife may be seen here including elephants, the legendary black-maned lions, leopard, cheetah, giraffes, wildebeests, buffalo, wart hogs, zebras, gazelles, topi, hyena, ostrich, hippos, baboons and many others. There are more than two million animals in the Mara during the annual wildebeest migration which streams past the lodge. An extraordinary variety of birdlife is also known to the immediate area.

No trip to Mara Serena would be complete without a visit to the hippo pools where large numbers of these enormous creatures wallow in the cooling mud of the Mara River.

The Lodge is the only property of its kind in the Mara Triangle - and, as such, its guests can be assured a high degree of privacy when enjoying their safari experience.

The Lodge has three landcruisers which can seat 7 persons each. Game drives into the bush are scheduled daily.

Game Drive Schedules:

Early morning from 6:30 am to 8:30 am
Morning from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Afternoon from 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Full day game drives can also be arranged. Leave the lodge at 8:00 am, with a picnic box lunch. Go explore the Mara plains for birds and wildlife returning to the lodge at 4:00 pm.

UNIQUE ACTIVITIES :

A specially arranged balloon safari will lift you into the clear blue sky at dawn and give you an eagle's view of the wildlife pageant below. You will climb until the Mara is a magical tapestry of landscape and the horizons of Africa are wider than the eye can see. The enchantment does not end with a "bump". As you land, Serena's hospitality matches the mood, with a sumptuous champagne breakfast - right there in the wild. The journey home is another game drive, to complete what is undoubtedly the experience of a lifetime.

This is only the beginning of the special offerings that guests are invited to experience at Mara Serena Safari Lodge:

With tables set on the riverbank, experience the unique wildlife of the Mara River by beginning your day with a "hippo breakfast". Guests can also arrange afternoon tea at sunset in this same unique location.
A Maasai bush dinner - with dancing performed by Maasai warriors in their traditional regalia - is served under the stars on the banks of the Mara River.
Guests are invited to enjoy special poolside barbecues with entertainment following the meal. Evening barbecues in a secluded part of the lodge grounds can also be arranged.
There are Maasai dances every other day from 7:15 to 7:45 pm
Slide shows of Maasai Mara, and the animals found within the reserve, are presented by the resident environmentalist every other evening
Wildlife films are shown in the bar lounge every evening after dinner

ABOUT MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE :

Maasai Mara National Reserve (373,000 acres/ 151,000 hectacres) is the northern extension of Tanzania's famous Serengeti Plains and is usually called "the Mara". Reachable by road or air from Nairobi, the Mara is Kenya's premier place for seeing wildlife. It features many excellent game lodges and camps, and a wide network of dirt roads slice through its open rolling grassland and wooded savanna. Two sizable rivers, the Mara and Talek, wind through the landscape, flanked by gallery forests and seasonal marshes.

The reserve is most extraordinary between July and October, when well over 1 million migrant herbivores (especially wildebeests and zebras) settle in for dry-season grazing. Besides migrants, the Mara hosts resident populations of elephants, hippos, topis, hartebeests, buffalos, giraffes, Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, impalas, Kirk's dik-diks, and a few black rhinos. Predators are plentiful, notably cheetahs, leopards, and unusually large prides of lions.

Birding is excellent around the lodges and from vehicles; 450 species have been recorded, including 54 raptors. The gallery forests host primates and a number of birds usually found farther west. The pastoral Masai (Maasai) people lead a semi-nomadic life just outside the reserve.