A 3 star city hotel on Murang'a Road, one turn off Moi Avenue, with a pool, a spa and a business centre. It decides for you on one thing: you want facilities and a lift to your floor rather than atmosphere, and you want to be in the middle of the commercial centre.
01What it is
Best Western Plus Meridian Hotel lists the full machinery of a working city hotel: 24 hour front desk, express check in and check out, lifts, concierge, luggage storage, multilingual staff, laundry and dry cleaning, a safe and a wheelchair accessible route. For eating and meeting there is a restaurant, bars, a pool bar, banquet and wedding services, a meeting room, a business centre, free wifi and free internet in the lounge, a terrace and a smoking area. The spa, steam room and outdoor pool are the leisure end of the list. The thin part is character: nothing here is described as more than service, and the free newspaper and free car parking are the only touches that are not pure function.
What Best Western Plus Meridian Hotel adds up to is a hotel that runs to a pattern and does not pretend otherwise. You get a pool and a spa indoors, a desk downstairs for work, and a lift to a room with a TV. The address on Murang'a Road puts you inside the commercial centre rather than beside it, which is the whole point for anyone here on business or admin. It suits a traveller who wants a known standard, a fixed desk and the CBD on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone chasing a quiet garden, a view or a neighbourhood with an evening in it.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 facilities the supplier lists
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 this one early if your dates fall in a conference or wedding season, because the banquet and meeting rooms pull the same building. 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 the Best Western Plus Meridian Hotel?+
It is at 6 Murang'a Road, off Moi Avenue in Nairobi. The property sits 0.43 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 6 minutes on foot in a direct line. That places it in the commercial centre rather than in a residential or nightlife district.
What facilities does the hotel actually list?+
A 24 hour front desk, express check in and out, lifts, concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a safe and multilingual staff. Food and meetings cover a restaurant, bars, a pool bar, banquet and wedding services, a meeting room, a business centre and free wifi. There is an outdoor pool, spa and steam room.
What is the area around Biashara Street and City Market like?+
The street feel is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The hotel is 0.4 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, so you are inside that pattern.
What does the guest score mean?+
It carries 4.3 out of 5 from 3959 reviews, which is a strong and heavily tested average for a 3 star city hotel. Read it as consistent delivery on the basics, rooms, desk, food and cleaning, rather than as evidence of design or atmosphere.
