A 3 star hotel on Mfangano Street, close enough to Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street to do the centre on foot. Book it if you want the loudest pavements in Kenya at your door and a desk and wifi upstairs. Skip it if you want quiet evenings or a view.
01What it is
Sheratton Regency Hotel Nairobi lists the working basics: free wifi, a 24 hour front desk, lifts, free car parking and parking, laundry service, room service, and a restaurant and bar on site. Rooms carry a desk, a telephone, a TV, an alarm clock, a fan, a safe and an iron and board. Bathrooms come with a shower, WC, sink, towels, toiletries and slippers. There are family rooms, wheelchair access and a smoke detector, plus first aid, sheets and water. The list is thin on the things that make a stay comfortable rather than functional: no kitchen, no pool, no gym, no airport shuttle, and no outdoor space beyond the parking.
For someone staying at Sheratton Regency Hotel Nairobi, that adds up to a plain, central base with the systems a short business trip needs and little else. The position does the heavy lifting. Mfangano Street sits inside the commercial core, and the room is somewhere to sleep, work and leave your bag while you cross the city on foot. It suits a traveller who wants the CBD at the door, a car park, and a bed at a known standard. It does not suit anyone chasing quiet, a view, or a resort. After dark the streets here thin out fast, and the honest advice is to take a car after dark and not walk.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street
Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street is the busy grid, and it is the loudest, fullest pavements in Kenya: hawkers, phone shops, preachers, and a bus every few seconds. Two parallel streets carrying most of the pedestrian traffic in the country. The National Archives sits at the Moi Avenue end in the old Bank of India building, and the whole stretch is shops at street level with offices stacked above. It is best for street life, errands, and the Archives gallery in the middle of it. The quarter sits 0.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4 minutes on foot in a direct line.
After dark it thins out fast after the commute and is better avoided late. Take a car after dark. That is the trade: you are paying for the heaviest footfall in the country, and the same footfall disappears by evening, leaving pavements you should not cross on foot. It suits anyone who wants the day to happen at street level and is happy to retreat behind a door at night. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on the pavement outside.
Read the whole of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street05Booking it
Book this one on the strength of the location and the working basics rather than the frills. 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 Sheratton Regency Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Mfangano Street in Nairobi's central business district, in the Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street area. The property sits 0.28 km from the centre of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street and 0.44 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 6 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel list for rooms and facilities?+
Free wifi, a 24 hour front desk, lifts, free car parking, laundry service, room service, a restaurant and a bar. Rooms have a desk, telephone, TV, fan, safe, iron and board, shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Family rooms, wheelchair access and a smoke detector are listed.
Is the area around Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street safe at night?+
It thins out fast after the commute and is better avoided late. Take a car after dark. During the day the pavements are the loudest and fullest in Kenya, with hawkers, phone shops, preachers and a bus every few seconds. The hotel's 24 hour front desk and parking help once you are back.
What does the 4.5 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average from 7367 reviews, so it reflects a large, settled body of guest feedback rather than a handful of stays. Treat it as a signal that the property delivers what it lists, not as a promise of anything beyond the facilities on this page.
