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Sandies Tropical Village
This place consists of three resorts around the intersection of Mama Ngina and Casuarina Rds...
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Kenyan House Boutique Hotel
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Sandies Coconut Village
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Sai Eden Roc Hotel
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Ocean Beach Resort & Spa
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African House Resort
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Malindi Cottages
Looking at the terrible 1970s curtains, the seatless toilets, the dodgy kitchenettes and the dank (or empty) pool, you'd have to say this place was a touch overpriced.
Kws Compound
KWS provides a shady campsite, with lights and a cooking area, and eight popular bandas. Water and bedding are provided and there's a kitchen and mess hall you can use for an extra charge. Mountain bikes can be hired per day.
Coral Key Beach Resort
A huge mass-tourism resort catering particularly for young Italians. It's very lively, with activities such as water-volleyball and a climbing wall.
Moriema Cottages
These large cottage-style rooms are a pretty good deal, but whoever thought of putting in carpets and dull green furnishings was way off the mark aesthetically. They're tucked away in a quaint garden behind the Sabaki shopping centre.
Heiner Seiz Bungalows
These quiet German-run cottages are subdivided into unfancy but well-kept rooms with fridges. Some kitchens are also available to guests. Rates include breakfast.
Woburn Residence Club
If you're not bothered about direct beach access, this swish complex offers pristine modern rooms and apartments with giant marble bathrooms and the smart Two Dolphins restaurant. Rates include breakfast.
Blue Lodge
On the dirt streets behind Lamu Rd, this is a basic but acceptable budget option away from the bustle of the town centre.
Kilili Baharini Resort
This is a splendid Italian resort, with flamboyant decor and Swahili beds set all over the complex so you can read and catch the sea breeze.
Jardin Lorna
Don't be fooled by the French nom de plume - Lorna is as unpretentious as they come, providing accommodation mainly for students of the Hospitality Training and Management Institute.
African Pearl Hotel
Blessed with a real personal touch, this is the kind of pearl that's worth shuckin' a few shellfish for. Rooms are spacious and light, all with their own balconies, and foregoing air-con to get an atmospheric wood-panelled fan room is no hardship.
Gossip Hotel
The Gossip aims for a backpacker clientele. Rooms have four-poster nets, dark wood and plastic chairs, and the downstairs restaurant boasts an intriguing TV lounge/junk corner. A couple of rooms share bathrooms, but prices are the same.
Driftwood Beach Club
One of the best-known resorts in Malindi, Driftwood prides itself on an informal atmosphere and attracts a more independent clientele than many of its peers.
Tana Guest House
Just round the corner from the market area, this is a severely convenient location for buses and cheap food. Rooms are decent for the price, with fans, nets, squat toilets and what appear to be changing rooms.
Dagama's Inn
Here you'll find big, bare doubles and rather smaller singles in a modern block, now under new management, with a decent Indian restaurant downstairs. Only one room has a fan, but there's plenty of breeze through the slatted walls.
Lutheran Guest House
The Lutheran religious centre, set in a quiet garden near the falconry in the town centre, provides accommodation to travellers of all persuasions. The simple rooms have fans, nets and little else; the bungalows have living rooms and kitchens.
Silversands Campsite
On the southern beach strip, this is a much-loved site for travellers. There are good facilities but limited shade. The simple tented bandas have recently been fully refurbished. Bicycles can be rented per day.
Scorpio Villas
Villa-type accommodation set in dense, well-tended tropical gardens with three pools, a restaurant and a travel agent. The beds are huge and lovely Silversands Beach is just 50m from the gate.
Polcino Oasis Holiday Village
A vast but crumbling four-storey makuti-roofed apartment block on the southern beach strip, surrounding a truly enormous pool. The shopping arcade has a pizzeria and a good ice-cream parlour. Rates include breakfast.
Ozi's Guest House
Barely out of the budget category, this friendly hostelry is a travellers' favourite, though with the mosque right next door light sleepers may want to start praying.