Fairmont The Norfolk
Colonial-era grand hotel with a legendary terrace bar once ridden through on horseback by rowdy settlers.
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This guide to Fairmont The Norfolk in Nairobi takes you back to the hotel's 1904 opening as the first stone, tile-roofed hotel in British East Africa, when Nairobi itself was mostly tin roofs and mud. It follows the Lord Delamere Terrace as it earned its nickname, the House of Lords, among the Happy Valley set who traded English drawing rooms for the highlands. You'll meet Hugh Cholmondeley, the third Baron Delamere, and the reputation he built at that very terrace.
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