A small three star hotel and restaurant on Sixth Street in Greater Nairobi, 2.45 km from Muthurwa and the east markets. It suits you if your business here is the produce trade and you want to start before first light. It does not suit anyone who needs to walk home after dark.
01What it is
Sakina Hotel & Restaurant is a three star property on Sixth Street in Greater Nairobi, and its listed facilities come down to two things: a 24 hour front desk and wheelchair accessible provision. That is the whole of the published list, and it is thin. There is no pool, no gym, no airport shuttle, no business centre, no laundry service, no restaurant description beyond the name itself. What is there is the desk, which matters if you arrive late or leave early, and step free access, which matters if stairs are a problem. Everything else you should ask about directly before you commit.
What that adds up to for a stay at Sakina Hotel & Restaurant is a plain, functional bed in a part of Greater Nairobi built around trade rather than visitors. You get a room, a front desk that never closes, and a restaurant on site, and you get a location 3.35 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 42 minutes on foot in a direct line. Sakina Hotel & Restaurant suits the buyer, trader or early riser whose day starts with the vegetable and produce business and who wants to be close to it. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on the doorstep, nightlife, or a street that stays lit.
02The supplier's photographs
032 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers, on the edge of the centre in the wider city. Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the ground you are sleeping on. Treat that as the arrangement: you are in the wider city, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD. The nearest quarter is 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that figure describes the quarter, not your route from these hotels.
That quarter is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa's market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. The street feel is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, best done as an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. It is mornings only: closed, dark and not a place to be after dark. From these hotels you go in for that, and back out again, and the rest of your day starts with the trip.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Sakina Hotel & Restaurant directly if the morning market is the reason for your trip, and check that the accessible room you need is free before you confirm. 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 Sakina Hotel & Restaurant?+
It sits on Sixth Street in Greater Nairobi. It is 3.35 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 42 minutes on foot in a direct line. Of the ten quarters this site covers, the nearest is Muthurwa and the east markets, at 2.45 km.
What facilities does the hotel actually list?+
Two: a 24 hour front desk and wheelchair accessible provision. Nothing else is published, so treat the list as short. If you need parking, laundry, a shuttle or a described restaurant, ask the property before booking rather than assuming it is included with the name.
What is it like getting into central Nairobi from here?+
You are in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre, and the nearest covered quarter is Muthurwa and the east markets. Plan for a trip in rather than a stroll, and arrange your return before the evening, because the street there is closed, dark and not a place to be after dark. Mornings only.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score tell me?+
It is a good score from 278 reviews, which suggests the place does what it promises for the kind of guest it gets. It is not a luxury signal. Read it as solid rather than special, and check recent comments for anything specific to the room type you want.
