A 3 star hotel on Njugu Lane off Koinange Street, a short step from Biashara Street and City Market. This one decides it for you: you are paying for a full desk and a bar, not for scenes nearby after dark, because there are none.
01What it is
Kije Place Hotel lists a 24 hour front desk, express check in and check out, concierge, luggage storage, laundry service and free wifi, which is the working set of the centre done properly. It has a business center, a meeting room and a banquet room, a restaurant, a cafe and coffee, a bar with snacks, shops on the property, free parking with a garage, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. Breakfast is listed. The list is thin on how you spend an evening: it is a bar, a restaurant and a cafe, and nothing more ambitious.
What Kije Place Hotel actually is: a 3 star address with its paperwork in order, from the front desk that never closes to the desk you can hold a meeting at. The area is the other half of that. Biashara Street and City Market is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Book Kije Place Hotel if you are in Nairobi to work in the CBD and want the business end handled. Do not book it if you want the evening to start where you are sleeping.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 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
For a desk in the middle of the CBD with the evening quiet around you, this is the straightforward booking. 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 Kije Place Hotel in Nairobi?+
It is on Njugu Lane off Koinange Street in the Central Business District, 0.52 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 7 minutes on foot in a direct line. Biashara Street and City Market, the quarter it belongs to, begins 0.1 km from the centre of the hotel's immediate area.
What facilities does Kije Place Hotel list?+
A 24 hour front desk, express check in and check out, concierge, free wifi, laundry, luggage storage, free car parking with a garage, a business center, meeting and banquet rooms, a restaurant, cafe, coffee, a bar, shops, breakfast, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. Evening options beyond the bars and restaurant are limited.
Can you walk from Kije Place Hotel to the centre?+
Yes. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 0.52 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 7 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the commercial core is within walking distance on foot in a direct line. The quarter is a daytime one and empties in the late afternoon, so plan your evening elsewhere.
What does the guest score mean?+
Kije Place Hotel holds 4.1 out of 5 from 227 reviews, which is a solid rather than exceptional showing for a 3 star property in this part of Nairobi. Read it as competent and consistent on the things a working stay depends on, with the evening options as the acknowledged limit.
