Visas

So the bad news is that all British passport holders need a visa to get into Kenya, but because tourism has tanked recently, those kindly chaps at the Kenyan High Commission have found it in their hearts to slash the visa fee by half.

The cost of a single entry tourist visa is now £15 or $25

You can either get your visa beforehand at the Kenyan High Commission in London, or you can rock up in Nairobi and do it there. I got mine at the airport last time and it was perfectly easy (although renewing it three months later was slightly more problematic) but both options are fine. If you get the visa in Nairobi, I am pretty sure you have to pay with US dollars.

http://www.kenyahighcommission.net/visas.html

Visa Requirements
-A valid passport with at least one unused page for endorsement. It should be valid for at least three months at the date of entry to Kenya.
-A completed Visa application form (V1).
-One recent passport size photo.
-Travel itinerary or business letter.
-A stamped self addressed envelope preferably special delivery (for postal applications).
-Indicate your daytime telephone number.

Grandma - this is the one time you'll be the only one who doesn't need a visa!!

Flights - Part 1

After some hard-going negotiations with Mr Branson and his wacky team (and despite that letter), the nice people at Virgin Atlantic have agreed - if we travel in groups of at least 10 people - that they will take a chunk off their published prices for our guests.

Since people's holiday plans are varied, we were thinking of booking a group for one week, and a second group for two weeks. If you could think about which group you'd like to be in and post in the comments below, that would be super helpful.

Group rates
The price for a return flight to Nairobi from London Heathrow will be around £400 at the group rate .

The Virgin flights leave the UK at about 7pm and arrive into Nairobi the next morning. They leave Nairobi mid-morning and get back to the UK mid afternoon. We are thinking of booking groups so that they fly out of London Friday night, arriving the Saturday morning, and then leaving Kenya on a Saturday.

We have looked into BA and Kenya Airways but these are a little more pricey at £465

Flying solo
For those of you who need to be more flexible with your travel arrangements (or want some peace and quiet on the flight), direct flights are approximately £475 with Virgin and BA.

Mzungus get hitched

Hello!

First of all, a most heartfelt thank you for accepting our (somewhat ungracious) initial invitation to our wedding. I hope that in time when plans are finalised, a more formal invite will wing its way over to you.

In the meantime, since the wedding will undoubtedly require a lot of organisation, and to avoid mass emails that you might have to remember to file / not to delete / not to consign to deepest darkest cyberspace etc., we decided that the Internet would be the safest place to store the vast amount of information we will be throwing at you in the next couple of months. And if you know us well enough to be traipsing all the way to Kenya for our wedding, you probably know us well enough to realise that by "we", it basically means I will be posting all the details. Hey ho.

We are both really glad that you'll be joining us, and rest assured, if this wasn't such a massive organisational challenge (and we didn't both have full time jobs), we would never resort to anything quite so cheesy as a wedding website.

Love
Alex & Simone