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About a 30-minute private charter from Nairobi to Gogar Airstrip, just a few minutes' drive from the house (transfers included), or roughly a 3–4 hour drive from Nairobi via Nakuru on the A104 (the house is about 10 minutes off the main road); scheduled Safarilink flights to Loldia are an alternative, with Deloraine collecting at extra cost. Lake Nakuru National Park is about 45 minutes away.
Eight rooms decorated in elegant English country-house style with family heirlooms and modern comforts, the main stone house holds four double bedrooms and a twin, all en-suite, and the adjoining cottage adds three double/twin rooms with en-suite showers, so families and groups can spread out (some doubles take an extra child's bed). The pick are the upper-floor bedrooms in the main house, with private balconies overlooking the manicured lawns and gardens. Rooms are booked individually on a hosted basis with a small number of other guests, though the whole house can be taken exclusively for a family or group.
Fully inclusive, privately hosted country-house dining, with meals created from the estate's own organic gardens, dairy and produce, taken in the grand dining room, on the veranda or by the swimming pool, all drinks included except champagne, and guests warmly folded into the family house-party atmosphere.
Riding gear if you plan to make the most of the stables (boots, jodhpurs, a hat, or borrow from the house), warm layers for cool Rift Valley mornings and evenings at altitude (around 2,000 m), smart-casual for dinner in the grand dining room, comfortable walking shoes for the farm and forest, swimwear for the pool, a sun hat and sunscreen, binoculars for Lake Nakuru's birdlife, and your antimalarials.
Rides into the mountain forest reach the black-and-white colobus monkeys, and Lake Nakuru (45 minutes away), Lake Bogoria and Lake Baringo make superb flamingo-and-game day trips. Because it's hosted by Cindy Voorspuy and family in a genuine house-party spirit, it suits sociable travellers and multi-generational family gatherings, and pairs beautifully at the start or end of a wider Kenya safari, kids love the farm's chickens, ducks, donkeys and sheep.
Deloraine runs entirely off-grid on solar power and is a genuinely self-sufficient, organic working farm, three vegetable gardens, a Jersey dairy herd, over 160 sheep, chickens, ducks and beehives all feed the kitchen, with a large local team keeping the century-old house and estate alive. Kept as a private family home by the Voorspuy family and Offbeat Safaris (founded 1990 by the late Tristan Voorspuy), it sustains long-term local employment (over 20 grooms alone), and the nearby Rift Valley lakes are important conservation areas for flamingos and rhino.
