Chale Island Resort

Private island, exclusive quiet resort, beautiful and scenic, excellent cuisine, extremely helpful and friendly staff, beautiful clean and comfortable rooms, loved the tractor ride too and from the island, multiple food and drink areas, truly spoiled for choice, best massage I've ever had! Loved the hotel app that allowed you to plan and schedule your activities including water sports. Awesome water sport teachers and guides. Memorable stay! 7 star experience

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The resort is nice, there is variety of options. You can see they are trying to offer as many things as possible to make sure the guest are busy and happy - gym, spa, gift shop, game room, pool, etc. The highlight was clearly the food. In all restaurants, it was excellent. The sunset bar was also very cool. Overall, this is a great island and hotel, as long as you are willing to stay mostly on it. Which is perfectly fine for a first stay or short stay on the coast.

The location really complicated doing anything outside the resort. Diani is 30-40 minutes away at least, so to go to a store, another beach or restaurant, we needed to order cabs both ways. For the 6 of us, that's 4 trips at 30 dollars a piece - 120 dollars. Plus the time. Finally, no long walks on the beach like I love to do - it is a beach to lay down and enjoy the water, but only 100m long.

Unique island vibe … very tranquil with beautiful natural surroundings… literally an island paradise

Towels looked old and off white … didn’t match 5 star standards elsewhere