Giraffe Manor: Private Houses Nairobi: Karen Hotels Nairobi: Giraffe Manor Luxury house: Private Homes
 
Giraffe Manor: Private House Nairobi: Luxury houses: Private Homes
 
Giraffe Manor: Private House Nairobi: Luxury houses: Private Homes
 
 

 

  

The Giraffe Manor

The Giraffe Manor is small and exclusive hotel, personally hosted and an elegant place famous for its resident herd of Rothschild giraffe. The Giraffe Manor offers a rich blend of welcoming accommodation, highly trained and friendly staff, as well as one of Nairobi's finest kitchens.
The Giraffe is unique all over the world as this is the only place in the world where you can enjoy the breathtaking experience of feeding and photographing the giraffe over the breakfast table and at the front door. The Giraffe Manor is surrounded by 140 acres of indigenous forest just outside Kenya's capital, Nairobi. As well as the giraffe, the property is also home to many species of birds, large families of warthogs and the elusive Bush Buck.

Accommodation

The Girraffe Manor has en-suite bedrooms including a room which is suitable for families. The Luxury Manor rates include all meals, wine with lunch and dinner, alcoholic beverages (except champagne) Laundry services, sightseeing vehicle, entrance to Giraffe Centre and taxes.

History

 

Built in 1932 by David Duncan of the 'Macintosh Toffee' family, The Giraffe Manor is modeled on a Scottish hunting lodge with views of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the south and the Ngong Hills to the west. In 1974, the grandson of a Scots Earl, Jock Leslie Melville and his American wife Betty bought the Manor as their home.
The Rothschild giraffe lost much of their natural habitat in western Kenya and faced extinction. In 1974, two highly endangered Rothschild giraffe were moved onto the estate where their future generations have thrived and live today.

Jock and Betty founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW). The Giraffe Centre (AFEW Kenya) was built on the property so that Kenyan school children could learn conservation/ecology and feed giraffe eyeball to eyeball! Visitors touring Nairobi have a chance to visit and pay an entrance to the Giraffe Centre. Profits go to various projects in Kenya. Betty's son Rick has led AFEW USA and AFEW Kenya since 1983. When Jock died in 1984, and Betty returned to the USA she opened her house - now The Giraffe Manor - to visitors. The Giraffe Manor was run by Rick and his wife Bryony for twenty five years.


In March 2009, the Manor was bought by Tanya and Mikey Carr-Hartley and is now part of the Tamimi portfolio of camps and lodges in Kenya.

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