A five star address on Monrovia Street, inside the narrow, shaded daytime quarter of Biashara Street and City Market. It suits business travel and anyone who wants the centre on foot; it does not suit anyone looking for the centre's nightlife.
01What it is
Ol Pejeta House lists the equipment of a full service five star city hotel. You get restaurants and bars, conference halls, a reception area, lifts, newspapers and internet access, with toiletries supplied in the rooms. There is parking on site and currency exchange at the desk. The list is thin on the side a leisure visitor would notice most: a swimming pool is named and little else, so the property reads as a working hotel first and a resort second.
What that adds up to is a hotel built around meetings and desks. Ol Pejeta House puts you in a quarter that is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits people in Nairobi for work, for a conference, or for the market streets around the address. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre after dark, because 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
Booking Ol Pejeta House is worth doing in advance if your trip is built around a conference or a run of meetings, because this is a working hotel rather than a leisure one. 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 Ol Pejeta House in Nairobi?+
It stands at Kenya House on Monrovia Street, in the Biashara Street and City Market area of the central business district. That places it 0.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 10 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 0.12 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
Restaurants and bars, conference halls, a reception area, lifts, newspapers, internet access, parking and currency exchange, along with a swimming pool and toiletries in the rooms. It is the standard set for a five star city hotel, weighted towards business use rather than leisure.
Is the Biashara Street and City Market area busy at night?+
No. It is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so an evening out means going elsewhere in the centre. The property's own bars and restaurant are the practical option once the surrounding streets have cleared.
How do I check availability at Ol Pejeta House?+
Availability is checked online through app.impt.io, where rooms can be booked and most can be cancelled free. The site takes the booking directly, so you can confirm a room before you commit to the trip.
