Boma Inn Nairobi is a three star property on South C Red Cross Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre. The list is deep on business and leisure facilities, and the deciding fact is that it sits outside the quarter. If you need to walk to meetings in the centre, this is the wrong base.
01What it is
Boma Inn Nairobi lists a broad spread of facilities: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business center, meeting room, banquet and ballroom space, and a concierge. For leisure there is an outdoor pool, fitness center, health club, sauna, steam room, spa, lounge, terrace, bars and restaurant. Practical extras include laundry, dry cleaning, an ATM, gift shop, luggage storage, lifts and wheelchair access. The list is thin on what the room itself gives you: only a TV, with nothing said about bedding, quiet or views.
At Boma Inn Nairobi you are buying a three star base with a large facility list and a location that demands a car. The address is South C Red Cross Road, and the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.75 km from The Railway Quarter. The surrounding streets are wide industrial land with sheds. It suits someone driving to a meeting, wedding or conference, or a traveller who wants parking, a pool and a sauna on site. It does not suit anyone planning to walk into the centre, or to spend the evening on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 4 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in the centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, past the ten quarters this site covers. The nearest of those quarters, for orientation only, is The Railway Quarter, on the southern edge of the grid, and that is as close as the connection goes. You are in the wider city here. Anything in the CBD means travelling in and out, so plan the day around that rather than around a short step from your room.
The Railway Quarter itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, the museum, and understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift; the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, so keep it to daylight and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book Boma Inn Nairobi if you are driving and want the facilities on site rather than a central address; book elsewhere if you need the centre on foot. 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 Boma Inn Nairobi?+
It is on South C Red Cross Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district. The site puts it 4.54 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as a base you drive from, not one you walk from.
What facilities does Boma Inn Nairobi list?+
The list covers a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business center, meeting room, ballroom, banquet space, concierge, laundry, dry cleaning, ATM, gift shop, lifts and wheelchair access. Leisure facilities include an outdoor pool, fitness center, health club, sauna, steam room, spa, lounge, terrace, bars and restaurant.
Can you walk into central Nairobi from Boma Inn Nairobi?+
No. The site measures it at 4.54 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line. The area around the hotel is wide industrial land with sheds, and after dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches. Plan on daylight and a car back.
What does the 3.6 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is a middling score from 39 reviews, which fits a three star property with a large facility list but no central address. Read the recent comments rather than the number: the score alone will not tell you whether the room or the location was the problem.
