Anchor Hotel is a 3 star with 24 hour front desk, free parking, wifi and breakfast, on a road where produce moves at 5am. It suits drivers stopping in Greater Nairobi on business, not visitors who want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Anchor Hotel is a 3 star property in Greater Nairobi, on Kasarani Mwiki Road. The facilities listed are practical: a 24 hour front desk, free car parking, free wifi, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar, buffet and coffee, plus a meeting room and banquet space. There is a safe, luggage storage, laundry service, an ATM, multilingual staff and wheelchair access. The list is thin on the quiet things. There is a pool bar and a smoking area, and no spa, no gym, no airport transfer and nothing about how the rooms are cooled.
For someone staying here, Anchor Hotel works if your day is planned around Kasarani and the northern side of the city rather than the centre. The 24 hour front desk and parking are useful early and late. It is 11.24 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so it suits traders and drivers heading for that side. It does not suit anyone wanting to walk out to the Central Business District in the evening: the street shuts down. Use it as a base for morning work.
02The supplier's photographs
0320 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Anchor Hotel is on the northern side of the city, so book it when your business is that side and not in the centre. 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 exactly is Anchor Hotel?+
It is on Kasarani Mwiki Road in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area. It sits 11.24 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 150 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel actually have?+
The listed facilities include a 24 hour front desk, free car parking, free wifi, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar, buffet, coffee, a meeting room, banquet space, luggage storage, laundry service, a safe, an ATM, multilingual staff and wheelchair access. There is a pool bar and a smoking area.
What is it like around the hotel?+
The road is a produce and transport street. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After that it is closed, dark and not a place to be, so the area works for mornings only. It is not a quarter for an evening out.
What does the guest score mean?+
Anchor Hotel is rated 4 out of 5 from 530 reviews. That is a solid, consistent score rather than an exceptional one, and it reflects a practical 3 star property. Treat it as a working hotel and not a leisure stay, and read the score alongside the location and the facility list.
