Sentrim 680 Hotel is a three star address on Kenyatta Avenue, 0.06 km from the centre of Kenyatta Avenue. It is a weeknight business hotel: a full service list and a good guest score, in a street that empties by seven. Book it if you work here; skip it if you want the evening.
01What it is
Sentrim 680 Hotel is a three star with a long, conventional list. The room itself: air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a TV, a balcony, a bath with shower, WC and bidet, towels, sheets, toiletries, slippers and a hairdryer. Around the building: a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, lifts, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, express check in, wake up service, a safe, smoke detectors, first aid and cots. Food comes from a restaurant and bars, with breakfast, lunch, dinner, a buffet and special diets. Thin spots: the shuttle service is listed without a destination, and there is nothing here for anyone who wants a garden or a pool.
Sentrim 680 Hotel works because of where it stands. You are on Kenyatta Avenue, 0.06 km from the centre of Kenyatta Avenue, between the banks and the head offices. Breakfast is in the building, parking is free, the desk never closes. The same facts rule people out: the avenue empties by seven, and after dark it is lit but there is little reason to be on it. So this suits someone whose day is in the CBD and who will eat and sleep on site. It does not suit anyone who wants the evening at the door, or a quiet, green place to spend a weekend.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 10 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Kenyatta Avenue
Kenyatta Avenue is the spine of the CBD, the avenue the colonial town laid out wide enough to turn an ox wagon in, now the financial address of Kenya. You get six lanes, jacarandas down the middle, and the head offices of most of the country's banks on either side. It is the CBD at its most orderly: bank halls, airline offices, the old Stanley corner, and the widest pavements in the centre. As a first walk into the city it is the easiest orientation line to hold on to, and it puts you 0.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4 minutes on foot in a direct line. Offices empty by seven and the avenue goes quiet, lit but with little reason to be on it late. A daytime quarter, then: suits anyone wanting a central address for the working day, less so anyone expecting the evening to keep going outside the hotel.
Read the whole of Kenyatta Avenue05Booking it
Book Sentrim 680 Hotel directly if your reason for being in Nairobi is on Kenyatta Avenue, and the three practical points below are why. 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 Sentrim 680 Hotel?+
The address is Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, on the CBD's main banking street. It stands 0.34 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 5 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the junction with Moi Avenue is the nearest landmark. Being on the avenue rather than off it means the address is easy to give a driver or a client.
What does the hotel actually list for rooms and services?+
Rooms have air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a TV, a balcony, a bath with shower, toiletries, a safe and a hairdryer. The hotel lists a 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi, free car parking, lifts, laundry, a restaurant and bars, room service, breakfast and dinner, and family rooms. The list is broad and ordinary rather than specialist.
What is Kenyatta Avenue like for getting into the centre?+
It is the centre: six lanes, jacarandas down the middle, and the head offices of most of the country's banks on either side. Offices empty by seven and the avenue goes quiet; it is lit, but there is little reason to be on it late. During the working day, most CBD addresses are reachable from the door.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property carries a guest score of 4.1 out of 5 from 1644 reviews. That is a solid, unremarkable result for a three star city hotel with this many reviewers: consistently adequate rather than exceptional. Treat it as a sign that the basics are delivered, not as a promise of anything beyond them.
