The government has ensured protection of the great domains of National Parks and Game Reserves; these beautiful awe-inspiring areas are inhabited by a magnificent variety of animal species that weave their varied seasonal patterns of annual migration.

This magical land's capital city, Nairobi, is the point of arrival, the relaxing mid-break point as well as the place of departure for any visitor who has undertaken any length of safari, a word redolent of the thrilling expectations of adventure.

In fact, it is a breathtaking adventure to enter into this vast land which weaves a new world with each dawn as the visitor takes in the magic of The Great Rift Valley, the attractions of the captivating animal kingdoms of Amboselli, Mount Kenya, Samburu, Aberdare, Lake Nakuru, Tsavo, and, above all, the added magic of the Massai Mara which forms the northern part of the Serengeti Game Reserve and its magnetic captivating annual wildlife migration.

However lengthy or taxing a tailor or custom-made safari may be, the visitor is guaranteed the luxury accommodation of the Nairobi Safari Club on arrival, during the mid-journey relaxing break and before departure. The city's only international five-star hotel offers the visitor the luxury excursion base of prestigious suites for less cost than other city hotel accommodation. The club was a home away from home luxury but has, in time, become a necessity in the city, to complement that old-time tented safari accommodation highlighted in Hemingway's novels. Kenya was also the magicical setting for those enthralling films Where No Vultures Fly, Mogambo, Snows of Kilimanjaro and most recently Born Free and Out of Africa. Nairobi Safari Club is, and will remain, the city's unchallenged favourite suite accommodation luxury base, satisfying the business visitor and the safari adventurer, while at the same time having the superior quality of a comfortable venue for any international meeting, conference setting or incentive tour programme.

Suite accommodation plan

• The top floor comprises four spacious presidential suites and two penthouse style ones (rates upon request for individual suites or multiple composition arrangement);
• all other floors comprise 140 suites at a similar rate to any other common city hotel accommodation room, with bay windows in both bedroom and lounge with various panoramic views of the city and horizons beyond;
• each suite offers a bedroom with dressing table and ensuite bathroom leading into a spacious lounge. In general, rooms have three telephones with voice messaging and direct telephone dial facility to any destination worldwide, AT&T; connection at no charge, comfortable leisure seating, writing desk, dining table, personal bar, personal digital-code safe and satellite television with remote control of ten viewing channels;
• brasserie restaurant and Kirinyaga gourmet supper club restaurant, both offering haute cuisine tastes from all over the world;
• spacious business club members lounge with its accommodating bar for use by all members and guests;
• safari terrace bar on the ground floor aside to a spacious lobby, popular for its mix of guests and business club members;
• 24-hour room service complementing each available guest suite dining lounge;
• heated swimming pool, sunshaded pool deck, snack and BBQ deck arrangement with ornamental features complementing a starlit sky, suitable for private evening cocktail arrangements and other celebrations;
• a health centre adjacent to the swimming pool with sauna, steam room, fitness room, technogym equipment and a relaxing personal massage;
• Mawingo banqueting room for banquets, conferences, cocktail receptions and celebrations, with individual meeting rooms on the other side;
• a business centre with secretarial services, telefax, computer facilities, including access to the Internet;
• Business Membership Club, where all guests are immediate members of the facility incorporating both international and local members, thus benefiting the business visitor and guests of local business entrepreneurs, sporting and other communities, whether socially or culturally oriented organsations;
• gift shops catering for personal amenities, safari attire, souvenirs of precious and semi-precious stones and jewellery as well as numerous traditional carvings, gift items and other souvenirs;
• car park with 24-hour guard surveillance;
• complimentary guest transfer from, and return to, Nairobi International Airport (subject to prearrangement);
• credit cards accepted: American Express, Eurocard, Master/Access, Diners Club, Visa, Carte Blanche, Japan Credit Bureau.

The Nairobi Safari Club is situated on the quieter side of the city, only three kilometres from the city's National Museum, Snake Park, National Archives, colourful markets and shopping bazaars. The club is only six kilometres from the 44-square mile Nairobi National Park, world famous for its immediate proximity to wildlife viewing and its priority to wildlife protection and conservation.

On request we arrange day, overnight or longer safari excursions by road or air, or a relaxing combination of both, to all national parks. Safari itineraries can be tailor-made to any length of stay, enabling the visitor to take in the thrill of nature-seeking walking safaris, camel treks through semi-deserts encountering nomadic peoples, motoring through savannah and riverine plains viewing various wildlife and nights spent in forest lodges with their floodlit waterholes revealing the numerous shy nocturnal creatures. The excitement of old-time accommodation in luxury tents is also a possibility or simply relax on 80 miles of tropical coastal white sands and aquamarine waters with marine parks, water sports and big game fishing.

For further information, please contact, Nairobi Safari Park, PO Box 43564, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: 254-2-251333 Fax: 254-2-224625 URL: nsclub@users.africaonline.co.ke. Reservations can be made through any Utell International office: North America: 1-800 44, France: (33-1) 4897 1644, Germany: (49-89) 554371, UK: (4471) 413 8881, South Africa: (27-11) 3312672, or check your local Utell listing