St. Catherine Monastery Guest House, Karatu

Check in: 14:00 (2:00pm) - 17:00 (5:00pm) (no arrivals allowed outside this window)

Check out: Before 10:00 (10:00am)

Food & beverage

There are 3 daily meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and tea/coffee in-between meals. Most of the food is either sustainably and organically grown in the garden and fields or locally sourced from the markets and producers in the area

The nuns grow their own vegetables in a large organic garden. Day visitors are welcome to pop in for a bite to eat. Take-away lunches can be arranged for those going on a day safari or other excursions. In fact nothing is too much trouble for the nuns or their kind and helpful staff.

• Breakfast is at 5 USD per person 
• Lunch is at 10 USD per person 
• Dinner is at 15 USD per person 

Other facilities

While at the monastery, you can see the nuns and local staff working in the garden, the farm, the stalls, and in the fields, where vegetables, maize, wheat, coffee, bananas and other fruits are grown.

You can visit the barn, go on a mystic walk through the fields surrounding the monastery, visit and pray in the chapel located in the middle of the fields where the monastery well is housed, or visit the village and school (upon prior arrangement via e-mail or phone).

You may also take part in the local prayer activities at the monastery’s church and chapel. Prayer and spiritual activities include mass, daily prayer and other services on festive occasions.