We Took Our Canadian Family On A Luxury Trip in Watamu Kenya

After a few busy days on safaris, it is only fitting to bring our family next to the canyon coast. Welcome to my town. Wow. I hear the kids screaming. Remember a few months back when we found the best beach villa in the country? Well, Tribal Sands just opened a brand new property here in Watamu and once again, we are blown away. Welcome to Zuri by Tribal Sands here in Watamu. So this property has six bedrooms, can hold up to 14 people, beachfront, which we'll see in just a bit, and a massive pool, as you can tell my family is already enjoying. Okay, Joel, jump! Go, go, go! Okay, so I'm going to show you around, but I'm going to be honest, I don't even know where to start. This property is huge and it is so stunning. So we're just going to find our way through it. And of course, we're going to take you with us. So as you saw with the last property, there are usually so many places to chill. So coming with your huge family or a bunch of friends, it's ideal for that because you're not on top of each other's space. As you can see here, the massive chilling area over there. We have some outdoor dining tables. There is a huge wooden table in the corner there. And of course, more chilling space. And that's just our balcony out to the pool. So let's go in and see the other spaces. Welcome to the downstairs living area. As you can see, lots of places to chill. And then we even have a TV set up here, which I don't think we're going to be using much of because the pool is fantastic. Lots of fans up above, so you don't have to worry about that. And we have a huge dining room table inside as well, if we didn't want to eat outside. Oh, got to show you this part, because this is the first thing that you see when you come in to the house. So this is your entrance. This is what you see when you first arrive to the property and you're greeted with that nice, cool face cloth. Because let's face it, we're all sweating when we first arrived. But even here, lots of places to sit. And they even have our gate down that with a beautiful flower heart. It is amazing. Coming back inside the house to the side, we're going to show you the first cluster of bedrooms. So we have bedroom, they call it bedroom number two here. So you have a king-size bed and you have a walk-in full-on bathroom here with shower. But let's go see the other side. So these are mirroring each other except for twin beds on that side. So I'm going to show you this side. You come in, you have a bathroom here, double sink, shower, toilet, perfect bathroom. And sorry, one note, you can actually close these doors to make them kind of separate and it basically feels like an apartment in each section. So we also have a changing room here, which my parents have already hung up all their stuff. And then you have your bedroom. So you have a king-size bed. You do have AC in the bedrooms. Right now, we're just using the fans and letting the breeze blow through because it's amazing. And then you come out this side and you're back out to the front of the house. Same thing with the room there. It just comes out right beside it. Coming upstairs to the second cluster of bedrooms. So over on this side, I think this is one of my favorite rooms besides the master bedroom, is this one. So this is set up to be a kid's hallway, kid's room. We have your bathroom in here. Same thing, shower, toilet, double sink there. Tons of closet space that we will never, ever end up using. But the way this room is configured is you have four twin beds. And I think it's just the layout of it. Like it really screams almost like sleepover with the kiddos. I don't know. It's just I've never seen a house that has usually more than like two twin beds. The fact that there's four, if they all want to be together, they can. And the AC in this room, it's glorious. So then across from the kids' room, you have a parents' room that has a king-size bed there. Little comfy area to chill with their own dressing area. And bathroom. Brain fart. It's a little hot right now. And bathroom there as well. So as I said, those two bedrooms upstairs here. Now it's not just the bedrooms. You have another huge grand room up here that has the TV if you want to watch a movie in the evening. Let's say it's raining, you don't want to be outside. But the difference with this grand room is it even has two AC units as well. So you can cool down this area too to make it actually usable and not just sweltering in the heat. Then coming outside from that grand room, you can see you have a massive balcony here with patio furniture as well. So it comes with the kids' room and then the master bedroom on that side, which we're going to go show you now. Coming on to the other side of the house, you have what I would call the master's completely side, to be honest. You have a study in here that, unless you're going to work, that would be a perfect place for you. And now we're coming into the master's changing area, but it's so huge, we're not going to end up using that side. But welcome to the master bedroom, which is absolutely stunning. You have lounge area there, as you can tell, obviously with the master bedroom. King size bed. Since this room is a little bit bigger, you even have two AC units for this one room. Fans, which we're going to need. And then look at the bathroom. It is absolutely stunning. Toilet there, obviously. But look at this huge bathtub carved into the stone. And then our shower room here. Again, it's massive. With the biggest rainfall showerhead that I have ever seen. Double sink. This property is just absolutely stunning. Seriously, guys, you know, we've been to so many different properties on the Canyon Coast, and there is nothing like tribal sand. And they're not paying me to tell you that, so believe me. And the proof is we brought our family here. This is how much we love them. Now, even though this property is amazing, you guys know, a property, a nice beach villa, it's not enough. We also have a bunch of cool activities. So stay posted for some good food, for some adventure. It's going to be a cool couple of days. Actually, three days. The pool is super nice, but we also have a beach access. And the really cool thing about this beach is that we're about 500 meters to the closest resort. So this is basically a private beach just for the Zuri villa, which is big thumbs up. Our family went to go check it out. So we're going to go down and meet them. We just had to pay the fishermen because you're going to see that tonight. Yeah, we have a chef here and he went to pick up some fresh seafood. So we are filming this video mid-March and the ocean right now is so warm. Like literally being outside feels more refreshing than into the water. Whoa. We just took a nice little shower after a little afternoon by the pool with the kiddos and everyone. It was pretty nice. Now we're going to head down to relax a little bit before supper. I'm pretty excited about supper. The last time we were here at Tribal Zen, the food was a solid 10 out of 10. It was so good. Thankfully, I'm here to hold you up all day. We're not supposed to understand this grand old story. Guys, dinner fantastic. So, so good. Thank you so much. Have a good night. See you in the morning. Great first half day here. We like the entire family has been saying like, oh my God, oh my God, like nonstop. And we had such a good meal tonight. So we had fish with like the Swahili sauce, which I think was great. Everyone loved it. Oh, so good. So big shout out to the chef. We're going to go to bed tomorrow. A lot of family fun, a little special dinner and some more activities coming up in this video. So stay posted, buckle up because more to come. Good morning. It is hot in Watamu. The AC in there is doing an amazing job, but the rest of the house is a Watamu warm. Otherwise slept like babies. This matches and these pillows are just fantastic. Tracy just texted me that breakfast is served. So let's go see the fam jam. How did everyone sleep? Perfect. Perfectly. I like to hear that. In the morning in Watamu, there's not a lot of wind. So right now it's a little bit hot. Joel decided to jump in the pool because refreshing, right? Much better now. So we had a fantastic breakfast. We're just chilling by the pool for most of the day today. The kids are burning off some energy, of course. And yeah, tonight we're going to go for some pizza. Only the best pizza in the entire world, including Italy. Strong statement. It is very good pizza. And we'll see what we get up to today. Just a bit of a chill, relaxing day for our first full day here. One, two, three, go. So for lunch today, we have fish fingers for the leftover fish. We have some fries. We have some vegetables, crackers, cheese. Yeah, it's a great lunch. Can't believe they turned the extra fish into fish fingers. Look at this. Perfectly breaded and tastes like a million bucks. That's so good. So everyone went back to the room for a little bit of downtime. In the meantime, I'm going to do a little bit of work because we never go to places where they actually have a nice little office with AC, a nice view and just a cool setup. So we're going to do that and we're going to see you guys back for the best pizza in the entire world. You guys don't want to miss that. Plus two more, two more things to come. Time to head to one of our favorite restaurant here in Kenya and the family is very excited because we are going there in style with tuk-tuk all aboard. Robert, long time no see, my friend. How are you? Welcome. Good, thank you. Take your tuk-tuk. Trust me, Annalise, you haven't been to Kenya if you didn't do a tuk-tuk ride. So welcome. How was your first tuk-tuk ride? Pretty cool. Did you love it? Quite an experience. Pretty cool. Thank you so much. Is it the best pizza you ever had? Yeah, I would say. Yeah, there you go. It's delicious. I've never had a pizza like this before. I mean, look at this, guys. Like this place at sunset doesn't get much better than that. So beautiful, right? So beautiful, he says. Owen, how was your pizza? Delicious. Perfect. Annalise, how was your pizza? Nana, how was your pizza? Just good. Papa? Absolutely wonderful. Delectable. Unbelievable. That is quite something. Delicious. Evan, how was your pizza? Phenomenal. Strong statements. This was exquisite, fantastic. We actually made a full video about this place that we're going to link down below if you want more information. But just don't miss it. This is the place to eat pizza. Tuk-tuks are here. All aboard. Don't forget them. Squish a little butt. Thank you so much. Well, a best meal ever. And that's one of the cool things about this house. It's in a perfect location in Multan. We're like super close to like beaches and restaurants and different activities. So success tonight. Yeah, everyone, they believed it too. Everyone said it was the best still. So it's a win. Now we're going to go to bed because tomorrow is adventure day, aka the best kind of day. Good morning. We slept so good. But now we've got to go on a boat. Roll out, Otobots. So when we're getting ready to go on a boat, instead of worrying about extra towels, they even prepared baskets with specific towels for the ocean. So we don't have to worry about that, which is fantastic. I wish you a lovely trip. What do you guys think of the boat? We're going to be in this all day. No, that's not it. That's not it. Thank you so much. Captain, how are you? I'm fine, and you? Good, good. How are you? So this morning, we are taking the family on board Pepohuru, which means free spirit in Swahili. This might not look like much, guys, but in 2012, it won the Lamu race. So back about 12 years ago, this was the fastest dhow around. And I have to say it's still pretty fast. I think so. So we've actually been on Pepohuru many times. It's one of our favorite dhows here. And of course, later on, we're going to show you also why it's our favorite. On top of the dhow, you get really, really, really yummy. Oh, yeah, you can see their fins. They pop in just in front of that boat. So before doing some snorkeling and going to like a little beach that we're going to do today as well, our first goal was to find dolphins. And I think we've got some. I see one. Two, two right there. Two right over there. No joke. That was one of the best dolphin encounter we've had. Like, this was amazing. We saw like a couple of dozens. They were jumping and like, I got some shots underwater. Like, that was really, really good. Kajal, where are we going? The beach. You gotta sing. Take your spoon, like go all around to like detach it. Detach it. Yeah. And then I can just slip it in. And then eat the goo. Eat the goo. Is it your first ever passion fruit? First one. It's a bit sour. But good. Yeah, a little tart. Yeah. I like it. Now we're gonna head to our snorkeling spot that should be somewhere this way. But the best spot on the boat, there's actually a second floor and you can tan here. Owen is getting tanned. Yeah, yeah. Look at these little white legs getting all toasty red. Trace actually took our mom back to Rock and see where we're gonna go have lunch. Delicious food there. But yeah, with the heat and the waves when we went to go see the dolphin, she felt a little bit seasick. She forgot her sea legs at home, you know. So we're gonna catch back up with them a little bit later. But in the meantime, we are almost at the snorkeling spot. Maybe one more of that suncoil ever. No, thank you. You said it. We just made it to our snorkeling spot. It is Saturday, so it is quite busy, I have to say. But let's see what we see. Ready to go see some fish, bud? I'm not jumping in yet, but okay. We just came back from a little bit of snorkeling. We saw a lot of different fish, including stingrays, which is the first one I was seeing those here in Kenya. But the true highlight, apparently, if you ask the boys, is jumping from the second floor of the ship, right? That's the fun part. One, two, three. And he's gone. Thank you so much, Captain. Jackson, always a pleasure. Teenagers. And just like that, we made it to Rockin' Sea. So my mother and I have been chilling here at Rockin' Sea, taking the afternoon morning, very chill, which is fantastic. So we are going to have some pasta and seafood, fresh seafood, which is so good. You guys know, we've talked about this before, if you want really good pasta, you need to come to Rockin' Sea. So we're just waiting for that to come out. Myrna, Myrna. Cheers, and at least you're going to have to participate too. Thank you, Myrna. You got to sing your song now. He's been singing that for like two days, so now he has finally a milkshake. Victory! So here at Rockin' Sea, they actually make the pastas from scratch, the true Italian way. And it's some of the best we've ever had outside of Italy, I guess. The best pasta, not in the coast, in the country. The kids are having like, just like spaghetti with tomato sauce, but it's like insanely good. Delicious lunch, I think everyone enjoyed. Yeah, the freshness of their seafood is so, so good. And of course, the homemade pasta, nothing beats the pasta here at Rockin' Sea. So, so good. Make sure to go like and subscribe to Dave Manny, because he's the best YouTuber. Exactly, listen to this little guy there. I'll give you your five bucks later. Thank you. After a nice and relaxing afternoon around the pool here at Rockin' Sea, now we are going back to Peppa Horu, the Dow, for a little sunset cruise, which is going to be very nice. Their first one, I'm sure they're going to have a good time. So we are back on the boat for our sunset cruise. And these are one of my favorites, to be completely honest. We cut the engines, put the sail up, and it's just so peaceful. So we're just slowly going to glide down Mira Creek and have some snacks, maybe a couple of drinks, and watch the sunset. From the dozens of dolphins this morning to this perfect sunset, we got really, really lucky today. It was such the perfect day. Literally the perfect day. Peppa Horu is our favorite down in Kenya. We're going to put the information down below if you want to book this. Such, such a good day. Thank you. Fun day though? The tuk-tuks are here. It is time to return to our beautiful villa. Full day? So now that we're back at the house, the chef has prepared supper. I'm not gonna lie, we are pretty full from the day, but we're gonna try and eat some supper because I know that his food is going to be fantastic. And then crawl in our AC rooms and have the best sleep again. Thank you so much. Delicious, as always. Apart from the house, the house staff, they are just amazing. From the quality of the service to the chef and the delicious food that he makes for every single meal. Like if you ever come to any tribal center property because it was the same thing at the other one in Vipingo, don't worry about service and food. It's a solid 10. So Zuri, this place is fantastic, but I do want to say before we get into it is that it holds true to the last property as in like tribal stand so far between the two properties. It's been consistent and like in the best way possible. Yeah, they are truly like top of the line in Kenya. Like you cannot find better. This is absolutely fantastic. So here's my opinion about both. If you're renting as a group of adult friends or going without kids, I would say maybe think about the other one if you want some very Instagrammable photos and like places to relax with a beautiful view and everything. That would be Mayamani. But if you come here as a family with kids, you want them to run free and do their thing, this is the place. Yeah, so this place has a little bit more, not necessarily more green space, but more lawn. So like the kids can run around more. The pool is much bigger with a true deep end. So the kids, when we're here, like they're just running around, jumping in the pool. Everything's great. Also staff and chef, like the staff here are so amazing and so accommodating. Again, we've come with kids. So sometimes we need like some last minute little adjustments, like just adjusting like food and everything like that. And they have pulled through no issue at all. The chef has been fantastic. He's a seafood master. Highly suggest getting seafood when you're here because he knows what to do and how to cook the seafood. Everyone has all their own space. Like today we're on our last day and sometimes we just need extra space and nobody's on top of each other. Yeah, which is very nice. I love it. So if you want to book a stay at this house or any of their three amazing properties, make sure to check the link down below, send them an inquiry and I'm sure they'll get back to you with a prompt response. I have no doubt they're going to take such great care of you and you're not going to regret it. That is for sure. Otherwise, we're going to enjoy our last couple hours here before going back to Nairobi. Yeah. And until next time, see you guys in the next one.