Swiss Belinn Nairobi is a three star hotel on Kandara Road in Kileleshwa, 2.97 km from Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest quarter this site covers. Its parking, shuttle and full room list decide it: this suits you if you are driving or being driven, and not if you want to step out of the lobby into the centre.
01What it is
Swiss Belinn Nairobi lists the whole expected set: 24 hour front desk and security, air conditioning, free wifi, free car parking and a garage, lifts, a restaurant, bars, a lounge and a terrace, breakfast and breakfast in room, lunch and buffet, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, a business centre with copy and concierge, currency exchange, a fitness centre and family rooms. Rooms carry bath and shower, bathrobe, slippers, hairdryer, toiletries, towels, minibar, safe, desk, TV and telephone. There is a cot, iron and board, wake up service and wheelchair access. The list is thin in one place only: it is a list of facilities, not of the city around it.
For a stay, Swiss Belinn Nairobi puts you well outside the quarter that this site covers, and that is the whole decision. Kileleshwa is reached by car, by shuttle or by taxi, and the hotel makes that easy with free parking, a garage and a shuttle service, and it keeps you comfortable once you are back with a restaurant, bars, a lounge and a fitness centre. It suits a business traveller with a car, a family that wants space and quiet, or anyone whose days are planned around appointments rather than wandering. It does not suit a visitor who wants the centre on foot, and it does not suit anyone who wants the streets around the door to be busy after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 24 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Swiss Belinn Nairobi only once you have decided that Kileleshwa and a car are how you want to do this trip, because the hotel is comfortable and the location is the part that cannot be changed. 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 Swiss Belinn Nairobi?+
The hotel is on Kandara Road in Kileleshwa, in Greater Nairobi. It is 2.97 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it outside the centre, so plan on a vehicle rather than a walk from the door.
What does Swiss Belinn Nairobi have on site?+
The hotel lists a restaurant, bars, a lounge, a terrace, a fitness centre and a business centre, plus free wifi, free car parking, a garage and a shuttle service. Rooms include air conditioning, a minibar, a safe, a desk, a bath or shower, bathrobe and slippers.
Is Swiss Belinn Nairobi in the Central Business District?+
No. It sits in Kileleshwa, and it is 3.59 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 45 minutes on foot in a direct line. You reach the centre by car, taxi or the hotel shuttle, not by stepping out of the lobby.
How do I check availability at Swiss Belinn Nairobi?+
Use the booking link above to see current room availability and the cancellation terms for your dates. The hotel lists family rooms, non smoking rooms and wheelchair accessible rooms, so check that your preferred room type is open before you confirm.
