A four star hotel on Harry Thuku Road, with restaurant, bar, garden and shuttle, close enough to Biashara Street to work from. It suits anyone whose Nairobi days are errands in the centre and whose evenings end early, because the quarter around it closes in the late afternoon.
01What it is
Sentrim Boulevard Hotel lists the full working set for a city hotel: a restaurant, a bar, room service, concierge, currency exchange, laundry, a luggage room, a safe, shops and newspapers. There is a garden, which is rare in this part of the centre, and a shuttle service, which is the answer to almost every evening question here. The list is thin on leisure: no pool, no gym, no spa, nothing for children. Four stars, in the local sense, means dependable rather than generous.
What this adds up to is a hotel for people with a reason to be in the northern CBD. Sentrim Boulevard Hotel sits close to Biashara Street and City Market, so a daytime itinerary on foot actually works. Come night, you eat in, drink in the bar, or take the shuttle out. Suits business visitors, market traders and anyone who wants a quiet, well-run base. Does not suit anyone who wants the evening at the door, or a resort.
02The supplier's photographs
0314 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
Book Sentrim Boulevard Hotel if your days are in the northern CBD and you want the errands done on foot rather than through traffic. 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 Sentrim Boulevard Hotel?+
It is on Harry Thuku Road in Nairobi, 1.5 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 19 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it on the northern edge of the centre, within reach of the government and business addresses around there.
What does the hotel have on site?+
A restaurant, a bar, room service, concierge, currency exchange, laundry, a luggage room, a safe, shops, a garden and a shuttle service. The garden is the unusual item for this district. There is no pool or gym, so do not arrive expecting them.
Can I walk from the hotel to Biashara Street and City Market?+
Yes. It is 0.95 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, and that quarter is narrow, shaded and one-family wide, which makes it worth doing on foot during the day. It is a daytime quarter, though; the halls shut in the late afternoon.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average of 2195 reviews, so it reflects a large number of stays rather than a handful. Read it as solid and consistent rather than outstanding. Look at the recent written reviews for the specific things you care about.
