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A cream umbrella shading two wooden loungers on empty white sand, with a green islet across the turquoise water.

Love Island Beach, Watamu

The Beach

White sand on Love Island Beach, day beds in the shade, a lagoon to swim in, and a beach bar for sunset.

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A low green islet ringed by a bright white sandbar, seen across clear shallow water rippled by the current.

The bay

Love Island Beach

Papa Remo sits directly on Love Island Beach — white sand, warm water, and the reef breaking the swell offshore.

Day beds and umbrellas line the sand in front of the restaurant, so you can move straight from lunch to the shade, or the shade to the water.

Sun loungers and umbrellas on the white sand

Shade

Day beds and umbrellas

A stretch of sun loungers and umbrellas right on the beach, in easy reach of the restaurant and the bar.

Aerial view of the reef, sandbar and shallows off Watamu

In the water

Swimming in the lagoon

Calm, warm water in the lagoon in front of the beach, with the reef breaking the swell further out — an easy swim between a day bed and lunch.

Gallery

A day on Love Island Beach

Sun loungers and umbrellas on the white sand
Two cocktails on a table above Love Island Beach
A cocktail held up against the bay
Paparemo Coconut
Umbrellas and loungers on white sand seen from among the trees, with the turquoise lagoon and two islets beyond.
A man standing at the stern of a small dhow, poling it across the turquoise lagoon, with surf breaking on the reef behind.
Two hands touching a mojito and a layered red and orange cocktail together, with the lagoon and a cream umbrella behind.

Sunset

The beach bar

A sunset aperitivo at the beach bar as the sun goes down over Love Island Beach — the easy, unhurried run-up to dinner, or into the Saturday night party. Every aperitivo comes with complimentary stuzzichini.

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Strings of festoon lights fanning out over tables laid on the sand at dusk, with a palm tree and the sea behind.

Every Saturday

The party on the sand

Dinner first, then a barefoot dance floor right on the beach — a thousand people and resident DJ Delph, every Saturday in season.

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The layout

Where everything is

LOVE ISLAND BEACH BEACH & DAY BEDS BEACH BAR DANCE FLOOR ON THE SAND PRIVÉ RESTAURANT TERRACE OVEN CAR PARK ENTRANCE
Illustrative layout, not to scale. Privé areas are arranged on the night.
  • Love Island Beach — the sea, along the top.
  • Beach & day beds — the sand nearest the water.
  • Dance floor on the sand — the Saturday party area.
  • Beach bar
  • Restaurant terrace — tables looking over the beach.
  • Wood-fired oven — a small oven beside the terrace.
  • Privé — a strip between the dance floor and the terrace.
  • Car park — Maasai askari watch the car park through the night.
  • Entrance — from the car park.

Safety

Watched through the night

Maasai askari watch the beach and the car park through the night.