A three star apartment block on Peponi Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre and set up for self-catering stays. The kitchen and the parking are what decide it: this suits you if you have a car and your own cooking, and not if you want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Sherry Homes Zana 2 is a three star apartment property at 07 Peponi Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district itself. The listed facilities run to full self-catering: a kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a desk, a safe, a fan, a TV, iron and board, toiletries and slippers. Bathroom, shower and WC are listed, and there is a jacuzzi. Wifi and internet access are free, parking and a garage are free, and the list adds housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, car rental and a shuttle. Non smoking rooms. Where the list is thin: it says nothing about meals, a restaurant, a bar, a gym or a lift, and every one of those is simply absent rather than promised.
What that adds up to is an apartment you can run yourself, in a part of Greater Nairobi rather than in the quarter. For a longer stay, a family or a group who want a kitchen and a car space, Sherry Homes Zana 2 covers the practical ground: you cook, you park, you do laundry, and the shuttle and car rental cover the trips you cannot make on foot. It suits people who treat the centre as somewhere to go rather than somewhere to be. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out into the middle of things. If being in the centre matters more than the space, look elsewhere.
02The supplier's photographs
0331 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 Zana 2 only once you have decided that a Greater Nairobi address with a kitchen and a parking space is what you want, because the location is the part you cannot change later. 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 Zana 2?+
It is at 07 Peponi Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It sits 3.43 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it closer to the market edge of the centre than to Kenyatta Avenue.
Does it work if I want to walk into the centre?+
It is 3.93 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat that as a walk you do once to see whether you like it, not as a daily commute. The listed car rental and shuttle service exist for the rest of the time.
What is in the apartments?+
A kitchen or kitchenette with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a desk, safe, fan, TV, iron and board, toiletries and slippers. Bathroom, shower and WC are listed, and there is a jacuzzi. Wifi and parking are free. Meals and a restaurant are not listed.
How do I check availability?+
Go through app.impt.io, which is where bookings for Sherry Homes Zana 2 are handled. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date while you work out whether the Greater Nairobi address suits your plans. Nothing is confirmed until you book.
