A 3 star suite hotel on Milimani Ralph Bunche Road, close to Biashara Street and City Market. The list is unusually long for its class, from a pool and spa to free parking and a 24 hour desk, but the deciding question is whether you want the quiet Milimani side of the centre or the market quarter itself.
01What it is
Kenya Comfort Suites is a 3 star property, and its listed facilities cover more than the rating suggests: a 24 hour front desk, air conditioning, free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant, a bar, room service, laundry, a lounge, family rooms and non smoking rooms. There is also a cluster of leisure items, an outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna, a steam room, a massage service, a garden and a terrace, plus a playground and cots for children. Business needs are partly covered by banquet space, copying, express check in and a wake up service. The list is honestly thin on transport detail: it names a shuttle service, car rental and bike rental, but says nothing about where those go or how often they run.
For a stay, that adds up to a hotel set up for people who want the practical things handled: parking, security, air conditioning, food on site and a desk that does not close. Kenya Comfort Suites sits on the Milimani side of the centre, not inside the retail quarter, which means you are near the market streets without being in them. It suits business travellers with a car, families who want a pool and a playground, and anyone who would rather return to a serviced building than a guesthouse room. It does not suit people who want to step out of the lobby into bars and nightlife: the area is a daytime quarter, and the halls shut in the late afternoon.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 19 more on the supplier's own record. 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 Kenya Comfort Suites if you want a full facility list and a quiet edge of the centre rather than a room inside the market streets. 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 Kenya Comfort Suites?+
It is on Milimani Ralph Bunche Road in Nairobi, on the quieter Milimani side of the centre rather than inside the shopping quarter. Biashara Street and City Market, the retail heart of the central business district, is 0.14 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market.
What does Kenya Comfort Suites list for guests?+
The listed facilities include a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, air conditioning, free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant, a bar, room service, laundry, family rooms, an outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna, a steam room, a massage service, a garden, a terrace and a playground. Transport items such as shuttle, car and bike rental are named without detail.
Is the location good for walking into the centre?+
The property is 0.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The streets around Biashara Street and City Market are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. After dark the quarter is a daytime quarter, and the halls shut in the late afternoon.
What does the guest score tell me?+
Kenya Comfort Suites has a guest score of 4.1 out of 5 from 1207 reviews. That is a solid, consistent figure from a large number of stays rather than a small sample. Read it as approval of the practical side, the desk, the rooms and the facilities, not as a claim about nightlife on the doorstep.
