A three star loft in Greater Nairobi, away from the centre and reached by car. Free parking and wifi, a terrace, and housekeeping decide whether it works for you: it suits drivers and longer stays, not anyone who wants to walk out into the city.
01What it is
Sherry Homes Jahazi Loft is a three star property on Grevilea Grove in Greater Nairobi. Its listed facilities are practical rather than generous: free wifi, free car parking, housekeeping, laundry service, luggage storage and a terrace, with a surcharge attached to something in the list that is not spelled out. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no airport transfer in the list, so you should expect to sort your own meals, your own evenings and your own rides. The terrace is the one thing here you would use without thinking about it. Twelve photos are on file, which is enough to see the place but not to judge a particular room.
What that adds up to for Sherry Homes Jahazi Loft is a base for someone with a car and a reason to be in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The centre itself is a daytime quarter, where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so a stay out here and a stay in the middle are different propositions. The property suits drivers, people on longer stays who want laundry and parking handled, and anyone whose business is not on Kenyatta Avenue. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of a lobby into the city, or anyone relying on walking.
02The supplier's photographs
037 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Sherry Homes Jahazi Loft directly through this site and confirm your dates before you arrange anything around them, because the location decides more about this stay than the room does. 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 Sherry Homes Jahazi Loft?+
It is on Grevilea Grove in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district. It sits 6.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 81 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 5.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually provide?+
The listed facilities are free wifi, free car parking, housekeeping, laundry service, luggage storage and a terrace, with a surcharge applying to part of the service. There is no restaurant or bar in the list, so plan your meals and evenings elsewhere. The terrace and the parking are the two things most guests end up using.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You are outside the central business district, so treat the centre as a separate trip rather than something on your doorstep. The centre is a daytime quarter, where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan your day around that and travel back before the evening.
How do I check availability and book?+
Use this site to check dates and confirm a room, and settle your plans before you build a schedule around them. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and bookings run through app.impt.io. If your dates are fixed, book once you know your transport into the centre.
