A three star guesthouse on Migori Road with a pool, a garden and free parking, well outside the centre. Book it if you are driving into Nairobi; skip it if you want to walk out of your door into the quarter.
01What it is
Mani's Home Away From Home is a three star property on Chabari Court, Migori Road, in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities cover the practical end of a stay: a 24 hour front desk, concierge, multilingual staff, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, an ATM, free car parking and a smoking area. There is a garden, a terrace and an outdoor pool, and the property is listed as wheelchair accessible. The list is thin on the things a centre hotel usually supplies: no restaurant is named, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer and no business facilities.
What that adds up to is a quiet, self-contained place to sleep rather than a base for walking the city. Mani's Home Away From Home sits 3.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.33 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It suits a guest with a car, or one whose business is in this part of Greater Nairobi and not in the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the shops and halls, because the quarter you are reading about is a daytime quarter, and its halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one directly if you want the pool, the garden and the parking held for you rather than sorted out 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 Mani's Home Away From Home?+
It is on Chabari Court, Migori Road, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it outside the central business district, 3.33 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on a vehicle rather than a walk to reach the centre.
What facilities does the property actually list?+
A 24 hour front desk, concierge, multilingual staff, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, an ATM, free car parking and a smoking area. Outdoors there is a garden, a terrace and an outdoor pool, and the property is listed as wheelchair accessible. No restaurant, bar or gym is named.
Can I walk from the hotel into the centre?+
The direct line to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 3.95 km, which is 50 minutes on foot. The streets there empty in the late afternoon when the halls shut, so a walk back after dark is not the plan you want. Take a car.
How do I check whether a room is free?+
Availability is shown when you book through app.impt.io, which is the booking route this site uses for the property. The listing shows what is open for your dates, and most rooms can be cancelled free if your plans change.
