A three star hotel on Biashara Street, in the narrow, shaded part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. Position is what decides it: you are close to City Market and Kenyatta Avenue, and you are in a quarter that shuts in the late afternoon.
01What it is
After 40 Hotel is a three star property on Biashara Street with a listed set that is largely practical. You get a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, a business centre, concierge, luggage storage and a lift. Rooms list a desk, safe, TV, telephone, minibar, shower, hairdryer, toiletries and towels. There is a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, breakfast in room, room service and family rooms. A barber and beauty salon, a chapel, a terrace and a lounge round it out. The list goes quiet on leisure extras: no pool, no fitness room, no spa.
What that adds up to is a straightforward, working hotel rather than a resort. After 40 Hotel covers the mechanics of a stay well: security, parking, laundry, dry cleaning, iron and board, housekeeping, express check in and a wheelchair accessible room. The setting shapes the day. Biashara Street puts you beside the market, but this is a daytime quarter and the halls shut in the late afternoon. It suits business travellers and anyone who wants the centre on foot during working hours. It does not suit anyone wanting an evening scene at the door.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 22 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is the oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book After 40 Hotel if you want the market and Kenyatta Avenue within the centre rather than a resort, and if you will be out while the quarter is open. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. Every confirmed booking removes one tonne of CO2, at no extra cost to you. Five percent of what you pay comes back as IMPT credit, out of the hotel commission rather than added to your bill.
Facts on this page come from the booking supplier's record: star class, address, photographs and facility list. Guest scores come from verified stays. Nobody from this site has stayed here; the quarter copy around it is this site's own.
06Questions
Where is After 40 Hotel?+
It is on Biashara Street in Nairobi, in the Biashara Street and City Market area. It sits 0.16 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, and 0.47 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 6 minutes on foot in a direct line. Both are inside the central business district.
What does After 40 Hotel list?+
The listed facilities include a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, a business centre, concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, room service and family rooms. Rooms list a desk, safe, TV, minibar and shower. It is a three star property.
What is the area around Biashara Street and City Market like?+
The street feel there is narrow and shaded, and it is the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. After dark, it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan your evenings elsewhere and return by car or shuttle.
What does the guest score mean?+
After 40 Hotel holds 4.2 out of 5 from 1297 reviews. That is a solid score for a three star property in the centre, and it fits a hotel that covers the practical side well: security, parking, laundry, wifi and a 24 hour desk. It is not an indication of a leisure resort.
