In Kenya, there’s a huge diversity of accommodation. These ranges from campsites and local lodging houses for a few hundred shillings a night to luxury lodges and boutique tented camps that can easily cost many hundreds of dollars a night.

In Bungoma, hotels, resorts, and lodges are in existence. These are divided into high and miidle class. In Kenya, the term hotel covers a very broad spectrum. It literally means a cheap café-restaurant, not a place to sleep. At the top end of Bungoma, there are the big tourist and business-class establishments that fits the category of our selected tourism class.

At the mid-price level, some hotels are old settlers’ haunts that were once slightly grand and no longer quite fit in modern Kenya, while others are newer and cater for the Kenyan middle class. A few are fine – charmingly decrepit or fairly smart and semi-efficient – but a fair few are just as basic as you can expect and uninteresting.

To guide you, expect to pay anything from Ksh 4000–15,000 for a decent double or twin room, with bathroom en suite, known in Kenya as “self-contained”. Breakfast is usually included, but if you want to have breakfast elsewhere, the price will be deducted leaving you with a bed only option. Many rooms come with features such as TV – often with satellite television service. Depending with your accommodation, floor or ceiling fans and air conditioning will all put the price up, and are sometimes optional, allowing you to make significant savings at cheaper hotels.