A three star address on Koinange Street, three floors up, in the middle of the office quarter. It suits you if you want the banks, the avenue and the centre within a short walk and a full set of rooms with kitchens, and it does not suit anyone hoping to step out of a lobby into an evening scene.
01What it is
Chester Hotel and Suites is a three star property on Koinange Street, and the list of what it holds is long. Rooms come with a desk, a safe, a TV, a telephone, a bath or shower, towels, toiletries, a hairdryer, slippers and a bathrobe, and many have a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, oven and refrigerator, plus a balcony in some cases. Free wifi, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, lifts, room service, breakfast in room, car rental and a shuttle service are all listed, as are a bar, a beauty salon, a banquet space, family rooms, non smoking rooms and wheelchair access. The thin part is the outdoor pool, one line among many that reads as a generic facility tag rather than a working part of the building.
For someone staying in the centre on business, Chester Hotel and Suites does the useful things: you can work at a desk, keep food in a kitchenette, have laundry done, and get a car arranged without leaving the building. The street outside is six lanes, jacarandas down the middle, and the head offices of most of the country's banks on either side, so the address puts you inside the working city rather than beside it. It suits a traveller whose days are in offices and meetings and who wants to walk back rather than ride. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre to be lively after dark.
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 Kenyatta Avenue
Kenyatta Avenue is the spine of the CBD, the avenue the colonial town laid out wide enough to turn an ox wagon in, now the financial address of Kenya. You get six lanes, jacarandas down the middle, and the head offices of most of the country's banks on either side. It is the CBD at its most orderly: bank halls, airline offices, the old Stanley corner, and the widest pavements in the centre. As a first walk into the city it is the easiest orientation line to hold on to, and it puts you 0.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4 minutes on foot in a direct line. Offices empty by seven and the avenue goes quiet, lit but with little reason to be on it late. A daytime quarter, then: suits anyone wanting a central address for the working day, less so anyone expecting the evening to keep going outside the hotel.
Read the whole of Kenyatta Avenue05Booking it
Book this one if the address is the point of your trip, since the rooms here are set up for working and eating in rather than for spending the day in the 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 is Chester Hotel and Suites in Nairobi?+
Koinange Street, on the third floor, in the Central Business District. It is 0.19 km from the centre of Kenyatta Avenue, so the banks, the head offices and the avenue itself are within a short walk. You are in the office quarter, not on its edge.
What do the rooms at Chester Hotel and Suites include?+
A desk, safe, TV, telephone, bath or shower, towels, toiletries, hairdryer, slippers and bathrobe, with a kitchen or kitchenette and appliances in many rooms and a balcony in some. The property also lists free wifi, a 24 hour front desk and room service across the building.
What is around the hotel on Kenyatta Avenue?+
Six lanes, jacarandas down the middle, and the head offices of most of the country's banks on either side. It is 0.49 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 7 minutes on foot in a direct line. Offices empty by seven and the avenue goes quiet.
What does the guest score mean for Chester Hotel and Suites?+
It scores 4.3 out of 5 from 738 reviews, which points to a property that guests rate consistently rather than spectacularly. For a three star address in the centre, that is a reasonable signal on the rooms and the service, though the score tells you nothing about the street after dark.
