Salmiya Place 2 is a 3 star address on Tinderet Avenue in Greater Nairobi, a quarter of new concrete on a ridge where the day is built around the car and the conference room. The deciding fact is the position: 4.3 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue. You need a ride for the centre, and you get parking, a pool and quiet.
01What it is
Salmiya Place 2 lists the ordinary equipment of a 3 star city hotel, and lists plenty of it. Every room has a bathroom with a bath or shower, a WC, a bidet, towels and toiletries, and the extras run to a bathrobe and slippers. There is a jacuzzi and an outdoor pool, a lift, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry service, a safe, a TV and smoke detectors. Rooms are carpeted and non smoking. The list is thin in one direction: nothing here is a kitchen, a workspace or a room service menu, and the pool and jacuzzi are the only leisure facilities named.
What that adds up to at Salmiya Place 2 is a car based stay. The parking is free and the building is set up for arrivals by vehicle, which suits a conference visit, a family with a car, or a night before an early start out of the city. It suits you less if you want to walk to the centre, the museums or the evening bars: Tinderet Avenue sits among new concrete on a ridge, safe and dull after dark, with hotel bars the only thing on the doorstep and a ride needed for anywhere else. Salmiya Place 2 is a comfortable, well equipped base if the car is part of the plan.
02The supplier's photographs
0328 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Salmiya Place 2 if you are arriving by car and want a quiet, well equipped base outside 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 Salmiya Place 2?+
It is on Tinderet Avenue in Greater Nairobi, 3.48 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The centre is further: 4.3 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a vehicle.
What facilities does Salmiya Place 2 have?+
Rooms come with a bathroom, bath or shower, WC, bidet, towels, toiletries, bathrobe, slippers, carpet, a TV and a safe. The building adds free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry service, a lift, an outdoor pool and a jacuzzi. Rooms are non smoking and smoke detectors are fitted.
Can you walk into central Nairobi from here?+
The direct line to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 4.3 km, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the street is built for the car rather than the pedestrian. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Use the free car parking or take a vehicle.
How do I check availability at Salmiya Place 2?+
Availability and room choice are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date while you arrange transport, since the property sits outside the centre and is easiest to reach by car.
