You'd go to Ol Lentille for the views. Walk for 45 minutes up to the top of the hill that gives this hotel its name, and you can lose yourself for hours across the plains and mountain ranges of the Northern Frontier District. Apart from this, the environs of Ol Lentille are essentially desert for most of the year.

Ol Lentille is thorn and dust country - and because there's so little water, none but the toughest or most adaptable of creatures like to live here, so don't come for game.

Ol Lentille has made quite an effort to counter the harshness of its Laikipia environment (hat's off to the decorators) - it's not at all in the usual mould, being of a fairly modern, definitely first world design - in fact if you shut the heavy woven curtains of your clean lined white room, and lie on the expensive cotton sheets of your bed, you could pretend you weren't in Africa at all.

As there isn't much to do at Ol Lentille, it puts a fairly serious burden on the hotel to live up to its promises of luxury and glamour as that's presumably what will tempt people in.

They seem to have some of the trappings - glossy pool area, massage service, butlers, but it's ultimately the service that will count. As it's early days we didn't feel able to judge this.

Although you'd never guess it to look at it, Ol Lentille is a community lodge -

and uh uh no, that doesn't at all mean the community get to stay in it. A community lodge is basically something that (usually foreign) donors build for a local community, and sort of continue to run for them, filling it with tourists in theory, filtering money down to the locals in the form of conservation fees, or land rent or even profits from the lodge, or all three.

John and Gill Elias who put up lots of the money for Ol Lentille, and are now running the place have some pretty ambitious ideas,

both for the community side and the hotel side. They don't have a great deal of experience in either but it could be that the power of their intention will get them through and the substance of the hotel will slowly grow and blossom.

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Ol Lentille is thorn and dust country - and because there's so little water, none but the toughest or most adaptable of creatures like to live here, so don't come for game.

As there isn't much to do at Ol Lentille, it puts a fairly serious burden on the hotel to live up to its promises of luxury and glamour as that's presumably what will tempt people in.

Although you'd never guess it to look at it, Ol Lentille is a community lodge -

John and Gill Elias who put up lots of the money for Ol Lentille, and are now running the place have some pretty ambitious ideas,

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