{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = Outspan Hotel | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = Outspan hotel.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Outspan Hotel, 1987
| location = | address = | location_city = Nyeri | location_country = Kenya | coordinates = {{coord|-0.4209|36.9418|type:landmark_region:KE|display=inline,title}}
| opened_date = {{start date|1928}}
| number_of_rooms = 45 | number_of_suites = | number_of_restaurants = | number_of_bars = | facilities = | website = {{URL|http://outspan.co.ke}} | embed = | embedded = | references = | footnotes = }} The '''Outspan Hotel''', located in Nyeri, Kenya, was developed from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker during the 1920s.
In 1928, Walker opened the Outspan Hotel on {{convert|28|ha}} of Crown Land in Nyeri, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range.<ref name="prickett">{{cite book | last = Prickett | first = R.J | title = Treetops: Story of A World Famous Hotel | publisher = David St John Thomas Publishers | location = Nairn, Scotland | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-7153-9020-1}}</ref>{{pn|date=January 2019}}
The hotel now features 45 rooms on {{cvt|20|acre|ha|disp=flip}} of landscaped gardens.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://outspan.co.ke/about-us| title = About Us}}</ref> ==Background== In 1939, Baden-Powell and his wife Olave moved into a cottage he had commissioned on the hotel grounds.<ref name="jeal">{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Jeal |authorlink=Tim Jeal |title=Baden-Powell |publisher=Hutchinson |location=London |year=1989 |isbn=0-09-170670-X|title-link=Baden-Powell (book) }}</ref> The Paxtu cottage is now part of the hotel complex and serves as a small Scouting museum dedicated to scouting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Why did Baden Powell choose Nyeri, Kenya as his last home?|url=https://www.scout.org/node/24290|website=Scouts|publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement|date=24 January 2014|accessdate=24 July 2016|url-status=live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160605075158/https://www.scout.org/node/24290 | archivedate=5 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-20 |title=The Fate of the Iconic Scouts Museum in Nyeri – Kenya News Agency |url=https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/the-fate-of-the-iconic-scouts-museum-paxtu-in-nyeri-is-secured/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
The hunter Jim Corbett also lived there.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Best |first=Nicholas |date=8 January 2012 |title=The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/08/queen-elizabeth-treetops-kenya |access-date=3 October 2024 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>
==See also== *Treetops Hotel
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Hotels in Kenya Category:Hotels established in 1928 Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1928