A four star hotel on Savannah Road in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and built around a long list of facilities. The distance decides it: this suits you if you have a car or a driver, and not if you want to walk out into the city.
01What it is
Savannah Road lists a very full set of facilities. There is a 24 hour front desk, concierge, luggage storage, lifts and wheelchair access, free wifi and free car parking, a fitness center, a spa and an outdoor pool with a pool bar. For eating and drinking it lists a restaurant, a cafe, breakfast, bars and a night club with karaoke and an arcade and casino. It also lists shops, a supermarket, an ATM, bicycle hire and storage, cleaning and dry cleaning, and a shuttle service. Two entries are not facilities at all: surcharge and smoking area tell you nothing you can plan around, and the list says nothing about the rooms themselves.
What that adds up to is a self contained property. Savannah Road keeps you inside it, which is the point, because the street around it is a market road: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. It suits a business or transit stay where the day is arranged and the car is waiting. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out for dinner or walk to the centre. The only guest score on file is 5 out of 5 from 3 reviews, which is too small a sample to lean on.
02The supplier's photographs
0334 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 Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the useful fact it is: you are staying in the wider city, not in the CBD, and anything in the centre means travelling in and out for it. Muthurwa itself is the wholesale edge, where the market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line.
That edge has its own texture: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, so mornings only. Nothing about the quarter makes it a base, and the hotels this page lists are not in it. They are for people who want the wider city and accept the journey in whenever the centre calls.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Savannah Road only once you have settled how you will move around, because the location is the whole decision here. 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 Savannah Road?+
It is on Savannah Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It sits 7.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 95 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a long walk, so treat a car or a shuttle as part of the stay.
What facilities does Savannah Road list?+
A 24 hour front desk, concierge, lifts, free wifi, free car parking, a fitness center, a spa, an outdoor pool and pool bar, a restaurant, a cafe, breakfast, bars, a night club, karaoke, a casino, an arcade, shops, a supermarket, an ATM, bicycle hire and storage, cleaning and dry cleaning, and a shuttle service.
What is the area around Savannah Road like?+
It is a working market road rather than a hotel quarter. The street there carries trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and the advice is mornings only. Plan your evenings elsewhere.
Is Savannah Road well rated?+
The only score on file is 5 out of 5 from 3 reviews. Three reviews is a very small sample, so it tells you little about what to expect across a normal stay. There is no larger set of guest scores to weigh, and the facilities list is a better guide.
