A 3 star inn on Loresho Ridge in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and built for people with their own transport. It lists parking, a restaurant, a bar and a shuttle, which is the point of it. If you want to walk out of your door into the Central Business District, this is the wrong place.
01What it is
TripleTwo Loresho Inn lists the practical things first: 24 hour front desk, luggage storage, dry cleaning, free wifi, free car parking, a computer room, and wheelchair access. It has a restaurant, a bar or snack bar, a cafe, coffee, breakfast, and a supermarket on site, so you can eat and stock up without leaving the compound. Rooms come with sheets and towels, and there is a TV and a smoking area. Where the list is thin is anything beyond the basics: no gym, no pool, no meeting rooms, no airport desk, and no detail at all about the rooms themselves beyond linen and a television.
For someone staying at TripleTwo Loresho Inn, that mix decides the trip. It is a 3 star inn in Greater Nairobi, 8.15 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The free parking and the shuttle are what make that workable, because you are not walking into the centre from here. It suits a driver, a family with a car, or a longer stay where you want a supermarket and a bar on the same plot. It does not suit anyone planning to step out and be in the Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 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 Biashara Street and City Market, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten quarters, the closest thing to a centre you can point to. You are outside the grid, in Greater Nairobi, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter you would be travelling to is the market quarter. 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 narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. Best for 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. 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 TripleTwo Loresho Inn if you are arriving with a vehicle and want the parking, the restaurant and the supermarket on the same plot rather than a location near the centre. 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 TripleTwo Loresho Inn?+
It is on Loresho Ridge in Greater Nairobi, outside the Central Business District. It sits 8.78 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 110 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the main thing to weigh before booking, because the centre is not on your doorstep.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, a computer room, dry cleaning, a restaurant, a bar or snack bar, a cafe and coffee, breakfast, a supermarket, a smoking area, sheets, towels, a TV and wheelchair access. There is no gym, pool or meeting room on the list.
How do I get into the Central Business District from here?+
Plan on a vehicle, not a walk. The property lists a shuttle service and free car parking, which is the realistic way in and out from Greater Nairobi. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, Biashara Street and City Market, is 8.15 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so you can hold a room while you sort your transport. The site does not publish rates, so the booking page is where the detail sits.
