A five star hotel on Uhuru Hwy, close to the daytime quarter of Biashara Street and City Market. The list is long on services and short on the room itself, so the deciding question is whether you want a full service address or a small one.
01What it is
Laico Regency Hotel is a five star property on Uhuru Hwy. The listed facilities group into three: practical services such as 24H. Check In, currency exchange, internet access, laundry service and lifts; eating and drinking in the bars and the lounge; and grooming and leisure in the barber and beauty salon and the swimming pool. Rooms list a balcony and a TV. That is where the list thins: the balcony and the TV are the only things named in the room itself, and there is no detail on bedding, workspaces or how the balconies are arranged.
What that adds up to is a hotel built around services rather than room character. Laico Regency Hotel works for someone who wants check in at any hour, a currency desk, a laundry, a pool and a salon under one roof, and who expects to spend the day out. It does not suit anyone who wants the small scale of the quarter around it, or who plans to walk out after dark: Biashara Street and City Market is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 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 Laico Regency Hotel if the service list, the pool, the late check in and the position near Biashara Street and City Market are what you are after. 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 Laico Regency Hotel?+
On Uhuru Hwy, in the Biashara Street and City Market part of the centre. It is 0.19 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, so the market and the surrounding shop streets are the immediate setting. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 0.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 10 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What facilities does Laico Regency Hotel list?+
The listed facilities are 24H. Check In, balcony, barber and beauty salon, bars, currency exchange, internet access, laundry service, lifts, lounge, swimming pool and TV. Most of those are services and shared spaces. The itemised room facilities are only the balcony and the TV, so treat the service list as the stronger part of the offer.
Is the area around Biashara Street and City Market busy at night?+
No. The quarter is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The street itself is narrow and shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. If you want somewhere to eat or drink in the evening, plan on the hotel's own bars and lounge.
What does the guest score mean?+
The score is 4.2 out of 5 from 3211 reviews. That is a large body of reviews rather than a handful, so the number reflects a settled picture of the hotel rather than a good or bad month. It sits below the top of the range, which fits a five star property whose listed room facilities are thin.
