A three star hotel on Luthuli Avenue, a short step from the centre of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, with a 24 hour desk, free wifi and a restaurant. Book it if you want the loud daytime city on foot and will take a car after dark. Skip it if you want quiet pavements outside your door.
01What it is
Sunway Hotel Nairobi YOHOH is a three star property on Luthuli Avenue, and the list is practical rather than long. You get a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar, dry cleaning, and a meeting room. The entry for surcharge tells you some things cost extra, without saying which, so treat the list as a starting point and ask the desk what is included. There is no gym, no pool and no airport transfer in what is listed.
For someone staying at Sunway Hotel Nairobi YOHOH, that adds up to a plain, workable base: you sleep, eat and leave your car, and the city is outside. It suits people who want the Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street trade area on foot during the day, and who are happy to take a car after dark. It does not suit anyone who wants quiet streets at night or a resort list of facilities.
02The supplier's photographs
039 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 Sunway Hotel Nairobi YOHOH if you want a three star base on Luthuli Avenue and the daytime city on foot, and plan a car for the evening. 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 Sunway Hotel Nairobi YOHOH?+
It is on Luthuli Avenue in Nairobi, 0.21 km from the centre of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, and 0.41 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 6 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts the loudest, fullest pavements in Kenya at your door.
What does the hotel list?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar, dry cleaning and a meeting room, with a surcharge entry that suggests some things cost extra. There is no gym, no pool and no airport transfer among the listed facilities.
What is the area around Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street like?+
It is the loudest, fullest pavements in Kenya: hawkers, phone shops, preachers, and a bus every few seconds. It thins out fast after the commute and is better avoided late, so take a car after dark rather than walking.
What does the guest score mean?+
The score is 4.2 out of 5 from 5 reviews. That is a small sample, so read it as a rough signal from a handful of people rather than a settled verdict, and weigh the position on Luthuli Avenue alongside it.
