Sherry Homes Safari is a serviced apartment block on Stima Ln in Greater Nairobi, three star, with kitchens, laundry and a garden. What decides it is the setting: the apartment suits longer independent stays, less so anyone expecting to step out into the centre's evening.
01What it is
Sherry Homes Safari lists apartments rather than rooms, which is the first thing to know. Under that heading you get a kitchen, a kitchenette in some layouts, an oven, a microwave and a refrigerator, so you can feed yourself for the length of a stay. Bathrooms come with a shower, a WC, toiletries and towels; bedrooms with sheets, an iron and board, a desk and a safe. There is free wifi throughout, a TV, lifts, 24 hour security, housekeeping and cleaning, laundry service and luggage storage, and wheelchair accessible rooms. The list is thin on food: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast service and no gym. The garden and balcony are the outdoor space on offer. Photos on file are twelve.
What that adds up to is an apartment you run yourself with staff on hand, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. Sherry Homes Safari sits 3.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the arrangement works if you want a base for several days, a kitchen to cook in, and a quieter address to return to. It does not work if your reason for being in Nairobi is the centre itself and you want to walk out of a lobby into it. The quarter is a daytime one; it suits longer independent stays and people with business away from the middle, and it does not suit anyone who wants their evenings already laid on.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 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 this one early if your dates are fixed, because apartment layouts here sell out before single rooms elsewhere would. 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 Sherry Homes Safari?+
It is on Stima Ln in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. The centre is some way off, and the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.38 km from Biashara Street and City Market. Plan on a vehicle rather than a walk for central errands.
What do the apartments include?+
Kitchens with an oven, microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with shower and toiletries, sheets and towels, a desk, a safe, an iron and board, free wifi, a TV and a balcony or garden. Housekeeping and laundry are available. There is no restaurant and no bar on site.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
The distance is 3.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line. The quarter around the property is a daytime one, and the streets empty in the late afternoon, so most people use a vehicle rather than walk.
How do I check availability and hold dates?+
Use the booking link on this page to see what is open for your dates and confirm a room, with free cancellation on most rooms. Availability changes quickly for longer stays, so check as soon as your dates are settled rather than leaving it until arrival.
