A three star guest house on Rhapta Road in Greater Nairobi, with a garden, a restaurant, a bar and free parking. The one thing that decides it: you need a car, because this is not the centre and the centre empties early.
01What it is
Fahari Guest House lists the practical set: free wifi, free car parking, a garden, laundry service, a restaurant and a bar. It is a three star property, so expect the working basics rather than anything dressed up. The list is thin in the places that matter for a long stay. There is nothing about airport transfers, nothing about a gym, nothing about meeting space, and nothing about how the rooms are cooled or how many of them there are. Twelve photographs are on file, which tells you a little about the place and not much about the rooms themselves.
Fahari Guest House sits on Rhapta Road near New Rehema House, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district, so the trade is straightforward: parking and a garden and a restaurant on site, and a drive whenever you want the centre. It is 3.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 42 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is 2.72 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It suits a driver who wants somewhere quiet to leave a car and is content to reach the centre by road. It does not suit anyone on foot, and it does not suit anyone who wants the streets outside their door after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
037 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Fahari Guest House if you are driving and you want the car parked for nothing, and book it early in the week rather than on the day. 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 Fahari Guest House?+
It is on Rhapta Road near New Rehema House, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The address puts it outside the quarter this site treats as the centre, which is why the property works best if you have a car rather than a pair of walking shoes.
What does Fahari Guest House actually have on site?+
The listed facilities are a bar, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, laundry service and a restaurant, plus a surcharge line for extras. It is a three star property, so read that list as the working basics and nothing more elaborate.
Can I walk into the city centre from here?+
It is 3.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 42 minutes on foot in a direct line. Add the fact that the quarter is a daytime one, with the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets emptying with them, and the walk stops being the sensible option.
How do I check whether Fahari Guest House has a room?+
Availability and dates are checked through app.impt.io, which is where the booking runs and where most rooms can be cancelled free. Have your dates ready before you look, since the property sits outside the centre and the sensible choice depends on how you are getting around.
