A 3 star hotel on Gandhi Avenue in Greater Nairobi, with free wifi, a restaurant, a bar, laundry, concierge and step free access. It sits in the industrial west, so your own car, or a car called for you, is the thing that decides whether it works.
01What it is
The Stand Leisure Hotel lists what a working stop needs and not much more. Free wifi, a restaurant, a bar, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a reception area, concierge, express check in and express check out, and wheelchair access. The list is thin on the extras that fill an evening: there is no pool, no gym and no airport transfer named, and the bar and restaurant are the whole of the on site offer.
For someone staying at The Stand Leisure Hotel that adds up to a plain, practical place to sleep and work, close to the sheds and industrial land of the west, and not a base for a holiday in the centre. Book it if you are driving, if you want your car parked and your laundry done, and if you will take a car back after dark. Leave it if you want to walk out to restaurants, bars and the sights of the central business district.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in The Railway Quarter. They sit just outside the ten quarters this site covers, on the edge of the centre, and The Railway Quarter is only the nearest of the ten. What that means in practice is that you are in the wider city, not in the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The nearest quarter is the southern edge of the centre: wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift, and the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue; the quarter is 0.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 12 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is best for the museum, and for understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches. Daylight only, and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book this hotel if the address on Gandhi Avenue suits your work and you have your own transport, and check the room type against the facilities list before you confirm. 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 The Stand Leisure Hotel?+
It is on Gandhi Avenue in Nairobi West, in Greater Nairobi. It stands 2.56 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 32 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.91 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel actually have?+
Free wifi, a restaurant, a bar, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a reception area, concierge, express check in and express check out, and wheelchair access. There is no pool, gym or airport transfer on the list, so plan for the restaurant and bar as the whole of the on site offer.
Is it easy to get into the centre from here?+
The site's note on this stretch of Greater Nairobi is that it is industrial and unlit in places, and that it is daylight only, with a car back. Treat the centre as somewhere you reach by vehicle rather than on foot, especially after dark.
What does the guest score of 3.9 out of 5 mean?+
It is a middling score across 311 reviews, which fits a 3 star property doing the basics. Read it as a place people accept for the location and the practical facilities rather than one they single out for comfort or style.
