Takawiri Island Resort — Hotel in Mfangano Island ward

Myself and my partner decided to go to Takawiri for a couple of nights and we looked at the reviews on TripAdvisor, there are only 2 resorts on the island, Victoria Sands and the Island resort. The first review I read, which misleadingly refers to the Island resort, had the headline " Food poisoning " so I only read a couple of lines and chose the only other resort, Victoria Sands. We made our booking at the Victoria Sands and regretted this decision after a couple of hours. We walked to the Island resort and we were greeted by a wonderful man called Danny who served us with perfection. The Island resort was absolutely beautiful with wonderful views and amenities. We went back to our hotel, The Victoria Sands ,after a couple of hours to be asked what we would like to order for dinner, this was at 4pm. Dinner was served to us at 8pm as requested, plates of mush that was obviously cooked in the afternoon and microwaved before serving. The so called manager spent the evening stretched out on a day bed in the middle of the dining area on her phone or sleeping while the hotel guests were looked after by incompetent staff. I decided to read the reviews completely and I noticed that the "food poisoning " actually refers to the Victoria Sands and NOT the Island resort! TripAdvisor please correct this as it is very misleading. I brought this to the attention of the proprietor of the Island Resort, a fantastic host called Kati while eating a freshly prepared lunch which was beautifully prepared and presented. So in conclusion I would urge anyone visiting Takawiri DO NOT go near the Victoria Sands, you will be...

On arriving at the Island there was no one to meet us when we got off the water bus as agreed, upon entering the hotel there was construction going on (felt like I have had taken a trip at a construction site and called it a holiday) the owner rudely ignored us when we asked to see the room upon probing we were told to wait for them to get the room ready, The service was so bad that our tour guide and friend missed the evening Water-bus and had to spend the night in the island which was okay with us. ||The pool was underneath the construction site so swimming there was out of the question, too many people in the compound (was a rather noisy holiday so we decided to stay in the room). However it was great swimming in the lake.||If I thought the food was bad at Victoria Sands I was wrong coz it got really bad got to a point we could taste fish in our breakfast sausages and Mandazi we eventually settle to having noodles for lunch we had bought at FoodPlus Kisumu, we tried having dinner and at that point all we were looking forward to is to leave that place. On our last morning the breakfast had improved and upon enquiring we were told that they had stocked up for fresh supplies the day before by then it was too late. Upon returning to Nairobi my daughter was sick all the way home all the way till Christmas and I was treated for food poisoning it’s up to after Christmas that I realised we both had food poisoning.||||However we took a long walk into the Islands it was really beautiful I would go back but...

I had a terrible, terrible experience here. This is me putting it mildly because I am less angry five months later. The unfortunate events that happened to us on Takawiri Island were so traumatizing. Never have I been made to feel uncomfortable about being Kenyan while touring Kenya - this was a first. ||||We were segregated to a certain corner of the Island and asked not to mingle with the rest of guests. We were neither supposed to walk around the facility nor go to the bar and restaurant. The plan was to have the crossover to 2021 on the Island so we arrived on New Year's Eve. We didn't even stay for long, maybe three hours max. After pitching our tents and complaining so much about the poor and disgusting treatment, eventually we were kicked out.||||Quite shockingly, we, a group of paying Kenyan citizens were curtly told to get off the island which is apparently "owned" by a foreigner.||The "real tourists" had paid for an exclusive experience which we were "disrupting and disturbing". Her exact words were, "get off my fu*ng island"||||Your Island?! I don't care how much you paid for it, please look around madam, you are in our country and not the other way around. The least you can do is...