The ‘piece of art’ hotel

Hemingways Hotel in Karen, Nairobi is among the newest additions to a growing hospitality scene. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

When TripAdvisor’s 2017 Travelers Choice Awards were announced, one hotel topped all others in Kenya. Hemingways Hotel, now in its fifth year of operation has been described in various forums as not just a hotel but a piece of art rightly planted in a part of Africa where white hunters with shotguns once bagged the occasional lion trophy.

Hemingways, a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World, is right in the heart of Karen, a walking distance from where Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, the affable Danish writer set up a remarkable home and penned her book, Out of Africa.