Extraxt from the review of our April 2007 visit to Kenya:

We knew that we had taken a gamble by going at Easter as the 'long rains' start in April in Kenya. Luckily, the only daytime rain we saw was on the last full day of our holiday and whilst we were at the airport waiting to go home. The rain was in the form of torrential downpours which had everyone scooting for cover! The weather in Nairobi and for the first half of our safari was great - between about 25 and 30 degrees, but as we got nearer to the coast, our altitude dropped and it got hotter and hotter. When we arrived in Mombasa, the temperature was in the mid-30s and it was very humid. This meant that we only managed to do one excursion from the hotel as even small amounts of physical activity were exhausting. We were also only a couple of hundred miles from the Equator so the sun was very strong. The majority of other guests didn't seem to care about this and turned themselves lobster red each day, whereas we made sure our sun beds were always in the shade and we also saw guests swimming with t-shirts on to try and protect themselves from burning.

Thanks that dosnt sound bad at all I phoned last night to change dates to two weeks earlier but going to be an extra 300 so not sure what to do what was dates u were there was it end of april? And was a lot of hotels ect closed? Thanks for ur help

We went for the first 2 weeks of April. All the hotels we stayed at were busy - couldn't tell you about any other hotels as we didn't get out of our own much but I bet most were open.