A three star hotel on Moktar Daddah Street, directly opposite Jeevanjee Gardens and a short step from Biashara Street and City Market. The deciding fact is that you are inside the working centre, not beside it: practical for a desk-bound visit, wrong if you want the evening to happen where you sleep.
01What it is
Enkare Hotel Nairobi lists the basics a business stay actually uses: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi and internet access, car parking, a meeting room, laundry service and wheelchair access. There is also a bar, a garden, a terrace, a smoking area and an indoor pool. The indoor pool is the one facility here that sits oddly in a three star centre hotel, and the list is otherwise thin on anything for a long leisure stay: no restaurant is named, and the bar is the only stated place to eat or drink on the property.
Enkare Hotel Nairobi works if your day is in the centre and your sleep is a base for it. The front desk runs all hours, the wifi is free and the parking is on site, which matters on a street this narrow. It suits someone with meetings around Biashara Street and City Market, or a traveller who wants the old market quarter on foot rather than a drive. It does not suit anyone who wants the night to continue outside the door: this is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0314 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 Enkare Hotel Nairobi if your trip is built around the market quarter and you want the front desk to be there whenever you arrive. 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 Enkare Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Moktar Daddah Street, opposite Jeevanjee Gardens in Nairobi's central business district. It sits 0.5 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 7 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 0.15 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market.
What does Enkare Hotel Nairobi list for guests?+
The listed facilities include a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, internet access, car parking, a meeting room, laundry service and wheelchair access. There is a bar, a garden, a terrace, a smoking area and an indoor pool. No restaurant is named on the list.
What is the area around Enkare Hotel Nairobi like?+
Biashara Street and City Market 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, so plan your evening elsewhere.
What does the 3.8 out of 5 guest score mean for Enkare Hotel Nairobi?+
It is a solid mid-range score from 228 reviews, not a high one. Read it as a hotel that does the practical things well enough for most guests without being a standout. If you need the centre on foot for work, that is likely sufficient.
