A 3 star business hotel on the Koinange Street and Moktar Daddah Street junction, with a restaurant, bar, breakfast, meeting room and parking. It decides itself on position: the halls you are here for are a daytime quarter, and the streets empty with them, so it suits a working day in the centre and not a night out.
01What it is
Hotel Metro lists the ordinary working kit for this end of the centre. There is a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking and a restaurant, plus a bar or snack cafe, breakfast and a buffet. Meeting room, multilingual staff, dry cleaning, a reception area and a smoking area are all named, and the hotel is wheelchair accessible. The list is thin where hotels usually pad it out: no pool, no gym, no airport transfer and no business centre appear, and the 3 star rating is the whole of what is claimed.
What that adds up to is a place to arrive, park, work and sleep. Hotel Metro sits 0.05 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, so the errands that brought you are on the doorstep, and the front desk stays open when they are not. It suits traders, buyers and anyone with a day of business in the quarter. It does not suit anyone wanting the centre as an evening address: 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 Hotel Metro when your reason for being in Nairobi is the daytime quarter and you want to be inside it rather than commuting into it. 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 Hotel Metro in Nairobi?+
It stands on the Koinange Street and Moktar Daddah Street junction, 0.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. Biashara Street and City Market are right beside it, and the streets round the hotel are narrow, shaded and lined with small shops.
What does Hotel Metro actually have on site?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi and free car parking, a restaurant, a bar or snack cafe, breakfast and a buffet. It also lists a meeting room, multilingual staff, dry cleaning, a reception area, a smoking area and wheelchair access. There is no pool, gym or transfer service.
What is the area like after dark?+
Quiet. Biashara Street and City Market are a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. If you want an evening out, you will be leaving the area for it, and the hotel bar is the closest thing on the doorstep.
What does the 3.8 out of 5 guest score tell me?+
It is a middling score from 263 reviews, which fits a plain 3 star business hotel rather than a place people rave about. Read it as reliable for a working stay in the quarter, and not as a reason to choose it for a leisure trip.
