An apartment-style three star block on Nyerere Road, next to the U.A.E. embassy, with kitchens and a garden behind the security gate. The deciding factor is the quarter it sits in: Biashara Street and City Market is a daytime area, and the halls shut in the late afternoon.
01What it is
YWCA Parkview Suites Nairobi runs to apartments rather than ordinary rooms, and the listed facilities follow that: kitchen and kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, iron and board, plus a bathroom with shower, WC, towels, toiletries, slippers and water. There is a 24 hour front desk with express check in, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, free wifi and free car parking. To eat there is breakfast, lunch, a restaurant and room service, with bars, a banquet room, a terrace and a garden, and special diets can be handled. Massage, car rental and a shuttle are listed. The list is thin on nothing much, except that the leisure side is a garden and a massage rather than a pool or a gym.
The apartment format is the point for anyone staying more than a night or two: you can feed yourself, wash and iron without leaving, and work from the room. YWCA Parkview Suites Nairobi also handles the practical side properly, with free parking, a guarded gate and a desk that never closes, which matters if you arrive late. It suits families, longer stays and people who want a base by the embassy end of town and are content to move by car after dark. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into an evening crowd, because this quarter closes in the late afternoon.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 12 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is 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 best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one directly if you want apartment space and a kitchen rather than a hotel room, and check which unit type you are being given. 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 YWCA Parkview Suites Nairobi?+
It is on Nyerere Road, next to the U.A.E. embassy. That places it 0.58 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, the narrow shaded quarter where the shops are still one-family wide. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 1.04 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 13 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What do the rooms have?+
They are apartments, so expect a kitchen or kitchenette with microwave and refrigerator, an iron and board, and a bathroom with shower, WC, towels, toiletries, slippers and water. Rooms come with TV, wifi, a safe and a balcony. Family rooms and non smoking rooms are listed, and the property is wheelchair accessible.
What is the area like after dark?+
Biashara Street and City Market is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The property has 24 hour security and a 24 hour front desk, and lists car rental and a shuttle, so the practical answer for the evening is the hotel, a hotel bar, or a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.1 out of 5 from 153 reviews. That is a solid, unremarkable score for a three star property: people are broadly satisfied rather than delighted. Read it as a place that does the basics of security, space and service well, without claiming to be more than it is.
