Breakfast: as we all had different sleeping patterns we made our own breakfast - fruits, eggs etc was plentiful. The very private location on Manda island was soothing and serene and very beautiful -the house itself a unique architecture with wonderful Lamu furniture and decorations.the swimming pool delightful and our junior spent hours and hours in it playing with her mum

Nothing could have suited us better

If you’re looking for isolation and don’t mind paying a small fortune every time you want to go anywhere or do anything, this place is gold. It is very beautiful

The owner is a liar and a thief. His booking.com listing is full of lies and when one of my guests had heavy period flow, he demanded 200 US dollars for damage to the sheets. I tried to escape but the locals warned me he was very well-connected in the government and it was physically dangerous to cross him. I am only describing the final incident in a very fraught relationship we had: every day I had an extremely unpleasant conversation with that man about one or another of his lies (for example, he lists Visa, Mastercard, American Express and cash as accepted modes of payment; in fact, he only accepts M-Pesa and it cost me more than 50 US dollars to go to the bank, withdraw the money and pay it into my M-Pesa account). I left a day early and went to an hotel in the village across the bay; when I told them I had been staying with Mr Sherman, they made big eyes and said, “Oh my God, I know that man!”, and regailed me with horror stories of other guests to his properties; then they gave me a free upgrade from a single to the penthouse