A four star resort and casino complex off Thika Road at Kasarani, built around gardens, a pool and a very long list of facilities. It suits families and anyone with a car who wants the whole apparatus on one plot. It does not suit anyone expecting to step out into the centre.
01What it is
Safari Park Hotel And Casino lists just about everything. Bedrooms come with balconies, baths, bidets, bathrobes, minibars and kitchenettes, alongside non smoking rooms, cots and high chairs. The grounds hold an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a garden, a terrace, a spa, a sauna, a jacuzzi, a fitness centre, tennis courts and a golf course, plus a casino, a night club, karaoke and a playground. There are several restaurants and bars, a business centre, a salon, a market and parking. The list is thin on one thing: a sense of the city. Nothing here is Moi Avenue, and there is no corner outside where the centre begins.
What that adds up to is a self contained compound on the northern edge of Greater Nairobi, the sort of place you check into and then stay inside. Safari Park Hotel And Casino is family friendly and unhurried, and the casino, night club and bars give it an evening, which the road outside does not. It suits families, casino visitors and anyone arriving by car who wants the pool, the greenery and the tennis court without leaving. It does not suit a first time visitor who reads Nairobi Central and wants to walk out into it; the site's own note is that the neighbours are a transport edge, not an evening, and you cross it by car. Stay here and you are not staying in the city.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 56 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book directly if you want a room here, because the rate varies more by season than by site and the free cancellation is worth having when the plot you pick is this far from the centre. 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 Safari Park Hotel And Casino?+
It is on Kasarani off Thika Road, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 9.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 115 minutes on foot in a direct line. The site's own note on the road there: a transport edge, not an evening, and you cross it by car.
How far is it from Nairobi Central?+
It is 8.5 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is not in the centre and not within it, so the practical answer is that this is a separate stay in Greater Nairobi rather than a base you walk out from.
What does the hotel actually have?+
Four stars, an outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna, a jacuzzi, a fitness centre, tennis courts, a golf course, a casino, a night club and karaoke. There are restaurants and bars, a business centre, a playground, family rooms and free parking. Rooms add balconies, baths, minibars and kitchenettes.
What is the guest score?+
4.6 out of 5 from 11656 reviews. That is a large sample for a property of this size, and it tells you the formula works for the guests who book it. It says nothing about whether the location suits you, which is the more useful question here.
