TURTLE BAY BEACH CLUB - WATAMU
Being amongst the top five beaches in the world, the Club offers excellent water sports facilities in a national Marine Park hosting an abundant variety of fish, coral and marine life. Plus hundreds of birds species to see and enjoy. The Club has 145 rooms set amongst 10 acres of tropically landscaped gardens.

All rooms are en-suite with fans and air-conditioning. Your stay includes all meals, domestic drinks, sparkling wine, day and night entertainment, a supervised Kids Club and some of the friendliest staff you could hope to meet.

Recommended by Europe’s top Tour Operators, Turtle Bay Beach Club is the place for a beach holiday and year after year over 3000 repeat guests return for a holiday treat of a lifetime.

Turtle Bay Beach Club is situated on 200 metres of beach on the edge of the internationally acclaimed Watamu National Marine Park, one of the best in Kenya. The hotel buildings are set in 10 acres of tropically landscaped gardens with 145 rooms, three restaurants, three bars, entertainment lounge and swimming pool, and as such makes up one of the most extensive all-inclusive properties in Kenya.

Kid’s Club:
A perfect family vacation combines energy with recovery. A supervised Kid’s Club is open daily from 10 am – 1pm and 3pm-9pm, all Kids between 4-12 years can join in and have fun with action packed games, swimming competitions, arts and crafts, field trips, cooking lessons, videos and much more.

Dining:
The Club offers four restaurants. For a romantic candle-lit dinner by the ocean, try the Blue Turtle restaurant. In the pizza restaurant you will find a tasteful variety that makes dining here uniquely different at our gardens with ponds. Or enjoy a themed dinner by the pool.

Main Restaurant
Full breakfast, lunch and dinner offered in the main restaurant by the pool, which seats 300 and has smoking and non-smoking areas overlooking Watamu beach. The meals are buffet style. The restaurant at the poolside has an excellent reputation and all tastes are catered for, including vegetarians.

Snack Bar
The Snack Bar is located also at the poolside for in between mealtime snacks. Our waiters will serve you the snacks, just ask for the menu.

Pizza Restaurant
The Pizza Restaurant is overlooking the fishponds. Delicious pizza’s, pasta, salad bar and soups makes this restaurant a favourite place.

Blue Turtle Restaurant
The Blue Turtle Restaurant, beautifully located on the beach will provide you with a la carte menus at an extra charge. At least once during your stay you should try it out, especially on a moonlit night. Reservation required. Children under 18, accompanied by an adult, are welcome in the Blue Turtle. Unaccompanied children are welcome to join the children’s dinner at 6.30pm in the main restaurant.

Facilities and Entertainment:
The pool has a large shallow end of 1.2 metres and deep end of 2.6 metres for swimming, also a Jacuzzi and a separate kids paddling pool of 0.6 metres.
Life guard not provided

Entertainment for the whole family! During the day, choose from Tennis, Beach Soccer, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Water Aerobics and much, much more. In the evening, enjoy Traditional African Tribal Dancers, Theme Nights, Acrobats, Quiz Nights, Snake Shows or Dancing under a tropical starlit sky with live music or disco.

All to fill your holidays with fun. For 4 to 12 year old children, there's an array of interesting supervised activities including swimming, arts and crafts, field trips, cooking lessons, cartoon videos, beach games, Tarzan's Tree House and Kids Fort by the pool.

When taking part in activities you will receive mega points. The points can be exchanged into different prizes for kids and adults or donate these points to one of our local charities.

Diving:
Turtle Bay Beach Club is located adjacent to one of the most unspoilt underwater reserves in the world: Watamu National Marine Park, the first to be set up not only in Kenya but the first in Africa. As fishing is not allowed within the park, it has become a safe haven and breeding ground for numerous species of fish. On the other side of the reef within the park reserves it is not unusual to encounter Manta Rays, Whale-Sharks, Dolphins and Turtles. The Diving School is run by professionals who are proud of safety standards that are maintained and diving is conducted in small groups of 4 divers per guide in order to ensure safety is kept at the highest level.

The Dive Centre is situated within the Hotel grounds with immediate beach access to the Watamu Marine Park. 2 Instructors assisted by 6 experienced guides. Language: English and German. Teaching -Association: PADI

The diving school is open throughout the year except in May due to the start of the rainy season. The best diving season is between the last week of October until the second week in April. Due to the weather conditions, diving at the outer reef is not guaranteed between the months June to October.

The Divebase is open 7 days a week and organize dives twice a day. Night dives depending on weather and tide conditions.

There are 20 Prime Diving Sites where we go to and it can take between 10-35 minutes from the diving school by boat to reach the location. The dives take place at a depth between 10-30 meters. The reef offers some of the richest variety of fish and corals in the world. Inside the lagoon is an ideal site for novices and unforgettable night dives. Half day trips with double dives can be arranged on request

Fun Boats
5 Fun Boats are available at the watersport centre. The guests can take a course and a sailing certificate will be issued to them, this will allow the guest to take the boat out for maximum ½ hour a day whenever they like for the rest of their stay. Or another option will be one of the watersports supervisors takes the guest on a 30 minute sailing trip through Turtle Lagoon.

Pedelows
One 4-seater and three 2-seater pedelows are available for our guests to use free of charge. They are easy to handle and fun for young and old to explore the Turtle Bay.

Paddle Skis
Eight brand new, white, single users paddle skis have been introduced complementary to our guests. Not sinkable, no lessons necessary and also for kids easy to use with a life jacket.

Boogie Boards
The watersports Centre issued 20 boogie boards for our all inclusive guests. It is fun for the whole family taking a ride on the waves of the Indian Ocean

Snorkelling:
Any snorkelling in the Marine Park requires a marine park ticket. The following is the position at Turtle Bay with regard to snorkelling.

Direct snorkelling from the beach
If a guest wishes to snorkel in front of the hotel, snorkels and goggles are available for use at the Funbase shop located near the swimming pool. The National Marine Park is managed and patrolled by Kenya Wildlife Service who ensure that all marine life within it’s boundaries is protected. This does come with a price to pay for this heritage for people who are going snorkelling and goggling. It does not apply to those who are just swimming in the ocean nor those who are using the water sports equipment with the exception of scuba divers. You can purchase marine park entry tickets from our hotel, which can be charged, to your individual room account. The coral is quite sharp and it is easy to injure yourself. We recommend when windsurfing, sailing or walking in the sea that you protect yourself by wearing closed toe and closed heel shoes.

Unguided snorkelling in the Coral Gardens
If a guest wishes to visit the Coral Gardens in a boat where the highest density of fish can be found but without a professional guide, the Hotel hires a glass-bottomed boat from the local Watamu Association of Boat Owners twice a week. The excursion fee paid to the Hotel by the guest covers all boat and ticket costs.

Guided ‘Snorkel Safari’ trip
Turtle Bay Beach Club operates its own glass-bottomed boat on an excursion to the Coral Gardens every day except Mondays. Guests are given an introductory lecture about the Marine Park and what they are likely to see before being taken to the Gardens in the hotel boat. The guide, an Oxford zoologist who has been in Watamu for many years, will point out fish and coral of interest and will answer any questions on what is being seen. The cost of the excursion includes Park entry ticket and guide fees; all equipment is supplied.

Deep Sea Fishing:
An angler's dream of watching the leaping antics of a hooked sailfish or the struggle with a huge marlin and other monsters from the deeps can become a reality when fishing out from Turtle Bay. Offshore is offered some of the best of Africa's big game sport for a host of species while the Beach Club makes a perfect base from which to operate, and to relax between the rigorous sessions.

Fishes encountered include Black, Blue and Striped Marlin, Sailfish, Broadbill, Tiger, Hammerhead and Bull Sharks, Wahoo, Kingfish, Greater Trevally, Cobia, Yellowfin Tuna, Dorado, Grouper, Red, Ruby and other Snappers along with many other smaller species.

Within the confines of the Marine Reserve will be seen a number of quality game-fish boats, large diesel powered craft all backed with experienced and knowledgeable captains and extremely competent and well-trained crews. Aboard will be the best quality tackle for use, ranging from bait rods and reels to the really heavy gear, plus a fighting chair. Visiting anglers who wish to try fly-fishing for the bigger species are advised to bring their own tackle. Full safety equipment, shelter from the hot sun and plenty of cold soft drinks and water are available. All you need to do the day before is book an early wake-up call and the lunch box.. Lightweight clothing, a wide-brimmed hat and high factor sun cream makes up the list.

Eco Tourism:
At Turtle Bay Beach Club we’ve been caring for the local community and environment for many years. In March 2004, this became an official policy of the hotel. Since then, the departmental managers in the hotel have been meeting regularly to ensure that our use of resources (energy and water), the disposal of our waste and purchasing are all for the benefit of the community and environment.

As one of the first coast hotels, Turtle Bay Beach Club has been awarded the Bronze Rating from Eco-Tourism Society of Kenya.

Your holiday can make a real difference to your favourite destinations. It can help to protect the natural environment, traditions and culture – the things that make your visit special. And it can improve the well-being of local families – spreading the benefit of your visit to those who need it most. Most importantly, it can help ensure that there are great places for all of us to visit – for generations to come.

Aside from the Eco-Policy we have a dedicated Community and Conservation office where you are welcome to ask for advice about helping the local people and the natural environment.