Temple Point Resort

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Resort

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Kenya

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  5.3 out of 6
total of 15 Ratings
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Andreas Peter Niederer

Travelled in: December 2025, Rated on 24.01.2026, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Great resort, very friendly staff everywhere, the head of the diving center is the epitome of helpfulness and makes everything possible, excellent, I'd love to come back.

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Rainer Ehmann

Travelled in: November 2025, Rated on 12.01.2026, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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The resort is beautifully laid out. The rooms are spread across 19 pavilions, each with around four rooms. The complex is a little older but very well maintained. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful, no matter where you go. The rooms are spacious and nicely furnished. Each room has its own air conditioning and ceiling fan. All windows have fly screens. A type G adapter is required for the plugs. However, there are also one or two universal sockets. Someone comes by in the evening from time to time to spray for mosquitoes. However, they rarely get into the rooms anyway. All beds have additional mosquito nets. Breakfast is always served as a buffet. In the evening, there may be a set menu or à la carte. If you have half board, for example, you can order any courses you like from the menu. Drinks are charged extra, but are very inexpensive by European standards. A large beer costs €3.50, a soft drink €2.
As is usual in East Africa, the tides are very noticeable. At low tide, the sea recedes far, allowing for long walks on the beach. You often have to wait a long time for the water to return. As the resort is located on Mida Creek, there is often quite a strong current and you should not swim too far out, otherwise you run the risk of getting caught in the current. If you dare, you can use a 6-meter-wide strip where the water is deep enough to swim but there is no current at all. The entire area is part of a marine park. Snorkeling is therefore only allowed if you take part in an organized trip. The fee for the marine park alone was recently increased from $17 to $25. It feels like you're being ripped off. But that has nothing to do with the hotel. There are six umbrellas on the beach, each with two sun loungers. We were surprised that this was usually enough. But in high season, space is sure to be tight.

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Christian und Anita

Travelled in: November 2025, Rated on 21.12.2025, Booked with WeDive
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Very friendly staff.
Complaints were dealt with and resolved immediately. There could have been a little more drinking water in the room. Water dispensers within the resort would also have been desirable.

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Marc Georg Franziskus Lamshöft

Travelled in: October 2025, Rated on 23.10.2025, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Barbara und Tauchfreunde

Travelled in: July 2025, Rated on 19.08.2025, Booked with WeDive
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Diving in Kenya is very limited at the end of July/beginning of August. You can't go to the outer reef because the waves are too high. We had to dive 3 days (6 dives) on the inner reef, same dive site, 10 m depth. Wedive did not give us this information. We would not have traveled to Kenya during the summer vacations if we had had this information.

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Oliver Ernst Göckeritz

Travelled in: March 2025, Rated on 23.04.2025, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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JK

Travelled in: March 2025, Rated on 22.04.2025, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Jürgen Horka

Travelled in: March 2024, Rated on 17.04.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Barbara Wenninger

Travelled in: November 2023, Rated on 02.12.2023, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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The resort itself is great but the description of where to go to the spa, for example, is completely missing. So it was difficult to find anything there. Also the paths were often broken which was not without danger in the dark.
The food was good but the portions were too big for our taste (in the evening) and the taste was sometimes a bit bland. But that's "complaining at a high level" :-)

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Jana und Stephan

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 28.10.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Dr. Fiala André

Travelled in: August 2023, Rated on 16.08.2023, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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I found the resort to be just fine: there was simply nothing to complain about at all. The entire staff of the resort is very eager to offer you a nice vacation. I felt comfortable all around.

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S.S.

Travelled in: April 2023, Rated on 21.04.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Christine

Travelled in: December 2022, Rated on 27.03.2023, Booked with fish & trips
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Great resort for diving and a combo with big game safari!

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Manuel

Travelled in: February 2023, Rated on 20.02.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Andrea Winkler-Keller

Travelled in: January 2023, Rated on 10.02.2023, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Temple Point Resort is a very well run clean and comfortable hotel. The service is good, the staff friendly and all works out great. The resort is a beautiful garden, there are terraces to the rooms, some are for individual rooms, some are shared from several rooms. In the morning, the monkeys often frolic there, which is very amusing!
The breakfast is English style, egg dishes are freshly prepared on request, the many fresh fruits are a dream! The food for half board is good, something for everyone. If you order at noon in the restaurant, it is even a little better.
The light house is a very special place, especially at sunset. On weekends you should book the place, it can get very crowded. As a house guest, you have preference, but the coveted seats directly over the water are quickly gone.
But now to the diving: Matthias, the base leader, has set up a perfect organization, many thanks! Also if you have questions about activities and restaurants in Watamu be sure to ask Matthias, he has many useful tips. The dive guides are very good, know their stuff, pay attention and keep a good eye on everyone. Thanks to Steve, Baya and Frank! As an over 60 diver with a few limitations I felt well taken care of. Jacket off in the water, no problem, help with donning and with fins, all great. Thanks to the captains of the boats!
There are two-tank dives, the first one starts in relatively calm seas, when you surface it is already wavier. During the morning the wind and swell get stronger, after the second dive the return to the boat can be more challenging - at least for me. There it did not go without help, which was always there.
Frequent drift dives, I recommend everyone to have a buoy with them to be on the safe side. The swell is often noticeable in the depth. Great dive sites, lots of fish, carpets of soft corals, nudibranchs in all colors, lobsters, turtles, once dolphins and a very special surprise at 30 m, which shall not be named here, just great! The visibility was never very clear, because a lot of plankton makes a lot of fish, life is raging. I enjoyed every day.
Also the safari in Tsavo East National Park was great, please definitely book and do from Germany!

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