Hi Farzanah  
 
We had a lovely time at the resort. It was a good break. The resort itself was clean, modern and had a fair amount of features. All water sporting except swimming (e.g.. boogy boards, kayaks, etc.) you had to pay for though which wasn't great. There was a team which organised games like volley ball, water polo, table tennis, etc throughout the day. You could get drinks and eats delivered to you poolside too. There were 3 different lunching places which all had good food. Then in the big covered poolside lounge there was tea served every afternoon. I'm glad we didn't go for the 3 meals a day as it would have been continuous buffets which can get rather boring and getting dressed to go to lunch would have been strenuous and we needed a good veg. The buffet food was good, there was always salads, meat and fish dishes and then desserts for dinner. They had some themed evenings where you had a buffet salad and dessert table and ordered the middle sections (usually about 4 courses!) from the waiter. There was always plenty of food and they moved the restaurant around a few nights, one night on the beach, another into a lapa area outside which was great. Wines were expensive, mostly South African but not the best ones. Breakfast was a bit boring as it was basically the same everyday but being a buffet you could pick and choose. The spa was great and I thoroughly enjoyed it, my husband was a lot more sceptical but they were very accommodating and swapped part of his treatment for sessions in the gym. The service was up and down, mostly good but getting new knives and forks mid meal was always an issue. The reception staff were always friendly and accommodating where possible. We had one hiccup and that was when we arrived we thought we had booked interleading rooms but they had put us into 2 separate rooms with another room in between us. We stayed like that for 2 nights and then they moved us to interleading rooms. We were in a double storey simplex type arrangement on the top storey both times with a balcony, there was about 5 of these buildings with 20 rooms per building and then the cottages along the rocky front (one picture shows a view from our first balcony over them towards the sea). The gardens were beautiful and well maintained. 
 
The soft sandy beach was quite small in comparison to the beach frontage of the hotel, with a separate adults only beach area. The rest was quite close in and the coral rock made for interesting walking and looking. You can walk out to the reef quite easily and there's plenty of people offering to take you. There was also camel rides along the beach and the usual people selling their wares. The beach was well maintained and there were security guards patrolling along it. Being a reef the tides were pretty extreme. 
 
The weather was mostly hot with the occasional thunderstorm, which blew up, poured down and then moved on and the sun came out again. Usually not longer than about half and hour to an hour at most. The rooms we had all had air-conditioning which was needed in the evenings especially. The humidity was quite low so overall very pleasant weather. The group that picked us up from the airport also offered tours out which I took 2 of - one was a half day into Mombasa itself which was great and the other a snorkelling and seafood lunch. The snorkelling was superb, rather a long boat ride out but we had about an hour in the water where they dropped us off at the top end of the reef (second picture shows island around which we went) up tide and then we just floated along with the tide which was not strenuous at all, that particular reef is protected so there was lots to see. 
 
On our last evening we went out to a restaurant called Ali Barbour's Cave which was superb, the meal was divine, the setting brilliantly done and the service very good. The third picture shows it taken from the roof looking in. 
 
Our flights home were a bit disastrous as Kenyan Airways cabin crew were on strike until the day we flew so there was big delays and huge queues especially in Nairobi which was lots of fun ;o}.... But we got home which with all our stuff which is what counts. 
 
Hope that helps a bit. Thanks again for organising it you made it very painless for me. 
 
Regards 
Katrina