Loldia House

an authentic taste of the British Empire

Loldia House is located in the Lake Naivasha area of southwest Kenya.

The lodge is centred on a beautifully restored Colonial Era house, with comfortable lounge and dining areas, leading out to a lovely garden and swimming pool area above the lake.

Rooms

Guest accommodation at Loldia House is in 9 units, of three different types …

• House Room : x3
• Period Cottage Room : x2
• Modern Cottage Room : x4

Further up the hill sits Loldia Cottage, a two bedroom annex which can function independently of the main lodge.

Activities

Loldia House provides the following guided activities, not all of which are necessarily included in the room rate …

• Motorboat safari
• Vehicle safari
• Day trips to Nakuru
• Walking safari
• Horse-riding
• Farm tours
• Mountain hiking
• Cultural interaction

Up to around 1995 this Lake Naivasha was considered to be a near essential component of a trip around Kenya, but these days it most commonly tends to feature in low quality and budget safaris.

However if you are looking to do a relatively high-end trip, then there are still some interesting options in the Lake Naivasha area, with a handful of genuinely high class small lodges being clustered around the relatively unspoiled northwestern side of the main lake and around the shores of the Little Lake to the southwest. These places are able to deliver a strong and varied range of activities and really provide a deep sense of this remarkable period of history.

We tend to most commonly include Lake Naivasha in trips for guests who specifically want to return here after many years away, although this does need to be done with great care in order to avoid disappointment.

Most visitors to this Lake Naivasha area tend to stay for 2 to 3 nights, usually in combination with popular Kenyan safari areas such as Maasai Mara, Meru, Samburu, as well as time down on the Kenya Coast.

Getting there

The infrequency with which higher quality trips include Lake Naivasha these days means that it is no longer included as a stop on the morning flight schedule between Nairobi and Maasai Mara.

There are options to charter on this route, which avoids driving out on the very busy and rather unpleasant main road.

On the way out, there is an afternoon flight service between Lake Naivasha and the Maasai Mara.

an area soiled by modern industrial agriculture