A 3 star highway hotel in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre. What decides it is the car: with one, the distance to the CBD is manageable and the parking and security make sense; without one, you are past Ngara and dependent on a shuttle or a ride.
01What it is
Sunstar Hotel is a 3 star property on Thika Superhighway Exit 7, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. The list is broad and practical: free wifi and parking, a garage, 24 hour front desk and security, air conditioning, a restaurant, bars, a lounge, business centre, laundry and dry cleaning, currency exchange, concierge, luggage storage and a shuttle service. Rooms carry the expected furniture and fittings: desk, safe, refrigerator, TV, telephone, bath and shower, toiletries, towels, slippers, iron and board, sofa bed in some, non smoking rooms and a smoking area. Meals run from breakfast in the room to buffet, lunch and special diets. The list is thin on leisure: entertainment activities and a banquet room are all that is named, and there is no pool, gym or spa.
What Sunstar Hotel adds up to is a working hotel on a transport edge, not a base for the centre. It sits 7.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 8.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 103 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the whole decision. With a car you get the parking, the garage and the security, and the drive in is yours to make. Without one you are on the shuttle or on rides, and the street outside is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and you cross it by car. It suits drivers and short business stays. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 22 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Sunstar Hotel if you are arriving by car and want the parking and the 24 hour desk rather than an address in the middle of town. 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 Sunstar Hotel in Nairobi?+
On Thika Superhighway Exit 7, in Greater Nairobi rather than the CBD. The site puts it 8.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 103 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 7.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, the nearest of the ten quarters covered here.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
Free wifi and parking, a garage, 24 hour front desk and security, air conditioning, a restaurant and bars, a lounge, business centre, laundry, currency exchange, concierge and a shuttle. Rooms have a desk, safe, refrigerator, TV, bath and shower, toiletries and slippers. There is no pool or gym.
Can I walk into the centre from the hotel?+
Not usefully. The street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one. You cross it by car, or use the shuttle service the hotel lists, or take a ride.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property holds 4.1 out of 5 from 1491 reviews. Read that as solid rather than exceptional: a broad, functional hotel that most people rate positively, with the highway location and the distance from the centre the things that pull the score down for some.
