A four star apart-hotel on Riverside Grove, north of the centre, with kitchens, a pool and free parking. The kitchen and the 4.6 score decide it: good for longer stays, wrong if you want to walk out to the bars.
01What it is
Executive Residency by Best Western Nairobi lists the equipment of a serviced apartment more than a hotel room: a kitchen, a microwave, a refrigerator, a minibar, an iron and board, a desk and a safe, with housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning behind them. There is free wifi, a business centre, a fitness centre and an outdoor pool with a pool bar. Family rooms, cots and a lift make it workable with children. The list is thin on what is on the doorstep: it gives you a terrace, a market and a shuttle service, and nothing about the streets around it.
For someone staying a week or more, Executive Residency by Best Western Nairobi takes the pressure off: breakfast, lunch and dinner are served, and the kitchen means you are not tied to them. Free parking and a shuttle service help, but this is Greater Nairobi, not the centre, and the centre is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Suits longer stays, families and drivers. Does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot at night.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 24 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
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one if you want a kitchen and quiet over a position in the middle of things. 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 Executive Residency by Best Western Nairobi?+
It sits on Riverside Grove in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. The site measures it at 4.52 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat it as a base you drive or ride from rather than walk from.
What does the property actually list?+
Kitchens, microwaves, refrigerators, minibars, desks, safes, irons and boards, housekeeping and laundry, plus free wifi, a business centre, a fitness centre, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, family rooms, cots, a restaurant, a bar, room service and free parking. The list is heavier on apartment equipment than on things around it.
What does staying in Greater Nairobi mean here?+
You are not in the centre. Biashara Street and City Market are 3.89 km away, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan on a car, the shuttle service, or the free parking.
What does the guest score mean?+
It carries 4.6 out of 5 from 942 reviews, which is strong and based on a large number of stays. Read it as consistent satisfaction with the rooms and the service rather than as a comment on the location, since the score says nothing about where the property sits.
