A three star hotel on Koinange Street with the ordinary kit a city stay needs: rooms, a restaurant, a cafe, a bar, parking and wifi. The decision turns on the quarter around it, which runs by day and shuts early. If you want evening life at the door, this is the wrong address.
01What it is
Salehe Safaris Hotel is a three star property on Koinange Street in the middle of the central business district. The listed facilities cover the basics in reasonable order: a restaurant, a cafe and a bar, breakfast, room service, free wifi and internet access, laundry, lifts, luggage storage, parking and a reception area, with non smoking rooms, shower and toiletries in the rooms and wheelchair access. Where the list is thin is anything beyond that: no pool, no gym, no meeting rooms, no airport transfer, nothing for a long stay or a working day. Twelve photos are on file.
What that adds up to is a plain city hotel for someone whose days are already booked. You get a bed, a meal, a shower and a lift to your floor, and you are inside the commercial centre rather than at its edge. Salehe Safaris Hotel suits the business visitor, the market buyer and anyone who wants Biashara Street and City Market on foot. It does not suit a holiday maker who wants the evening to happen downstairs, because it will not. Book it for the location and the function, not for the atmosphere.
02The supplier's photographs
0316 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
Check availability for Salehe Safaris Hotel against your dates before you commit, since rooms in this part of the centre move with the working week. 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 Salehe Safaris Hotel?+
It is on Koinange Street in Nairobi's central business district. It stands 0.52 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 7 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 0.18 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market. Both the market quarter and the main avenue are walkable from the door.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
A restaurant, a cafe and a bar, breakfast, room service, free wifi and internet access, laundry, lifts, luggage storage, parking, a reception area, non smoking rooms, shower and toiletries, and wheelchair access. There is no pool, no gym and no meeting space on the list. It is a three star property.
What is the area around the hotel like?+
Biashara Street and City Market is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan your evenings somewhere else in the city.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page to enter your dates and see what is open at Salehe Safaris Hotel. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking runs through app.impt.io. Confirm early if your stay falls in a busy week for the market quarter.
