clothing at the resorts
Hello again, I'm trying not to over-buy new clothes for this K and T classic safari. I'd like to have one or two non-safari tops for evenings, though as you've all said, this is not important. Are brighter colors like yellow ok while you are on the hotel grounds? Are the dinners generally indoors? Also, of course my favorite/best color is royal blue, so half my closet is this forbidden color, including bathing suit. Do I need to get a new suit?
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The Four Seasons is in the Serengeti and it has a nice big cold pool. On the way to the hotel you might notice things that have blue and black flags on them. Those are fly traps. We had a young man with us who had lost his luggage so all he had to wear was the black sweatshirt he wore on the plane. I nicknamed hiim “Fly”, cuz he got all the flies and they did not bother the rest of us. Most of the dining is indoors.
Thanks for your kind reply. Confirms my suspicion that blue is off limits at the resorts, as well as during the game drives.
Are all of the pools unheated? Going in July/August.
All of the pools on tour are unheated, and this is basically a high altitude tour, so it is always cool at night. The pool water is not warm. Electrical power in the camps is at a premium, often self generated, so the pools are cold, and the rooms are pretty dark. They use a few low wattage lights, so flash lights and a portable reading light are appropriate if you like to read.
Too bad that the resort didn't offer to sell safari-appropriate clothing. That would have helped Sealord's "Fly" travel companion. And could have brought some extra funds to the resort.
Some of the resorts do sell safari clothing. There really is no need to dress for dinner, but that doesn’t mean you have to wear safari clothes, many don’t wear them for the game drives. Still, i recommend clothing that covers you as much as possible due to insect bites and strong sun, you are on the Equator. I found the Four Seasons pool too cold and the new Melia hotel pool was also frigid. Our grandchildren went in it anyway last year but were blue with cold and shivering.
“Fly” ironically was studying to become an entomologist. I’m sure he did not pay for the trip, so he was not likely to ask his aunt to buy him clothes. He really didnt seem to care about the flies. He must have killed dozens of them, and just threw them out the top of the safari vehicle. The only other person aboard who was bothered by the flies was our driver. He was black of course.
OK, no bathing suit then. One less thing to pack. It's interesting that the local people seen in the hotel photos all seem to be wearing vivid colors, many of them blue and purple. Is this just a photo shoot, or does that really happen? If it is real, do they not also have the same concerns?
Swimming at the Four Seasons is a VERY BRISK!!!! experience. I didn't see anyone in the water in Amboseli. A few Royal Marines and I went in the water at the Mount Kenya Safari Club- it too was brisk.
Alan - During our tour I went in the pool at Amboselli, for a short period of time, and it was as cold as the pool at the Four Seasons.
We were just at the Mt. Kenya Safari Club last June, and the pool there is now heated. It is not heated the way I heat our pool, but it is no longer bone chilling freezing. My previous post saying ‘all the pools were unheated’ was not correct in that the Mt. Kenya pool is now heated a little bit.