A 3 star hotel on River Road with a long list of practical facilities: front desk, security, food, and parking. It suits you if your business in the centre happens in daylight and you want a bed close to it. It does not suit you if you plan to walk the quarter after dark.
01What it is
Delfirm Hotel lists the working parts of a city hotel: 24 hour front desk, 24H. Security, free wifi, free car parking, lifts, luggage storage, housekeeping, laundry, and dry cleaning. You eat without leaving the building: breakfast, lunch, dinner, buffet, restaurant, bar, room service. For work there is a business centre, copying, a concierge, express check in, and a shuttle service. Rooms come with bathroom, shower, WC, towels, toiletries, slippers, TV, telephone, fan, safe, and smoke detector, with family rooms and non smoking rooms. The list is thinner on quiet: a night club and entertainment activities are named, and a spa is listed. There is a terrace, a lounge, and a banquet room.
What that adds up to for you is a hotel that handles the mechanics of a stay: you arrive, you are checked in quickly, you eat, you sleep, you park, you do not have to solve anything. Delfirm Hotel is the right shape for a business traveller with daytime meetings in the centre, or for a family passing through who wants everything under one roof. It is wrong for you if you want to step out for an evening wander. River Road is the working city at full volume: stages, hardware, lodgings, and food cooked in front of you. This site says plainly of the quarter: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. Take the hotel's car rental or shuttle instead.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 17 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in River Road
These hotels sit in River Road, the eastern grid of the Nairobi CBD, a quarter that runs on matatu stages, hardware, lodgings and cheap kitchens, and the working city at full volume. Food is cooked in front of you and the country arrives in the city here, so the streets ask the most of a visitor. You are 0.68 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 9 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is the CBD's eastern half, and the half the brochures skip. It is where the matatus stage and where the cheapest good food in the centre is cooked. The site is plain about after dark: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. River Road suits anyone wanting nothing tidy and a clear sense of how the city actually runs. It suits no one who wants a quiet evening or an easy walk back.
Read the whole of River Road05Booking it
Book Delfirm Hotel if a secure, no fuss base near the centre is what you need, and arrange your own transport for anything after dark. 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 Delfirm Hotel?+
It is on River Road, 0.48 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 6 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 0.2 km from the centre of River Road. That puts you inside the working city, close to the commercial centre, with the hotel's own parking and shuttle service as the practical way to move around.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
A 24 hour front desk, 24H. Security, free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant, bar, room service, business centre, laundry, dry cleaning, lifts, luggage storage, and a terrace. Rooms have bathroom, shower, towels, toiletries, TV, telephone, fan, and safe. Family rooms and non smoking rooms are listed. A night club and spa also appear.
Is River Road safe to walk around at night?+
This site does not recommend it. River Road is the working city at full volume: stages, hardware, lodgings, and food cooked in front of you. After dark, the site's line is plain: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. Use the hotel's car rental or shuttle service for evening trips.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.3 out of 5 from 2099 reviews. Treat that as a broad signal from a large number of past stays rather than a fine grained picture. Read it alongside what the hotel lists and the street it sits on, and decide whether a daytime, practical base near the centre is what you are after.
