Chale Island Resort

A beautifully crafted and decorated hotel - on an island in the Indian Ocean (17km south of Diani) - sister hotel Nomad where we previously stayed and we would say it was a more peaceful experience. The room was beautiful and spacious. Excellent variety of food and different restaurants. There’s a lovely gift shop and so many activities - kayaking, mangrove walks, yoga, diving etc or you can just relax on the beach or by one of the three pools. Sunsets on the deck are incredible. Good transfers to and from Diani - depending on the tide you will go across by small boat or tractor! Which was so fun!

The location and the whole resort is beautiful. With low tide during the early part of the day you can also take a walk/small hike around the island where the ocean would normally cover ground. Really fun and you can find crabs, and starfish on your walk, as well as some other sea creatures. The food is great, countless breakfast options, great food options in general. Although the sushi bar/restaurant is not the best value. Staff is friendly and helpful. I am happy to carry my own luggage, but per the resorts policies (with the staff) they really insist in helping you (I guess some guests are into that kind of thing). The service is topnotch, whether you are at the swimming pool or the beach, the staff will quickly provide you with beach towels. We went during low season it seems, so it was not very busy, which is perfect for guests (perhaps not so much for the resort). But I am sure this added positively to my experience as a completely full/booked resort may have a different sort of experience.

+ Location is one of a kind. Exceptional and not done justice with the photos. Beach superb. Spa clustered around an unusual beautiful tidal lagoon in centre of island. Bird spotting to die for, underwater habitat is stunning. Beautiful paddling/wading walks at low tides. + Staff were lovely + Buffets had good variety and quality was fairly consistent. + Pools beautiful and monkeys everywhere but not too much hassle.

chale island is a lovely relaxing island around half an hour drive from diani beach. It has a lovely chilled out beach and service from staff is quick. Our ocean suite was beautiful and newly decorated. We had a beautiful terrace overlooking the sea. The room was immaculately clean. Breakfast was good and there was a good, healthy buffet to choose from as well as a cooked breakfast. We didn’t really have lunch but dinner was good, sometimes a little hit and miss with seasoning and flavour, however a good variety. Sunset drinks were lovely.

the sands is a wonderful place where spend a relax holidays in contact with the nature. if you expect to enjoy the nights or ti find a thousand of people that’s not the right place. if your holiday expectation is finding a heaven place, quiet, in contact with the nature, where you can enjoy an incredible facial or body massage hearing the nature sounds that’s the place. people are really friendly, the beach is not exactly unforgettable but you can have nice moment at the swimming pool or grubbing sun at the beach. Nice the bar on the beach, the resort gives to you the possibility to rest and to enjoin moment alone or on a company. we have done 2 days of safari that I really recommend. I do no recommend the dolphin tour with snorkelling because it’s nothing really special. spend more day to safari it really worth.