Nairobi Safari Club by Swiss-Belhotel

Ask around the local hospitality scene and Nairobi Safari Club by Swiss-Belhotel keeps surfacing. A four-star in Nairobi CBD that has been gathering momentum lately. Geographically speaking it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and the reasonable location rating in guest reviews backs that up. Inside, the rooms…

Ask around the local hospitality scene and Nairobi Safari Club by Swiss-Belhotel keeps surfacing. A four-star in Nairobi CBD that has been gathering momentum lately. Geographically speaking it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and the reasonable location rating in guest reviews backs that up. Inside, the rooms are well-appointed, and guests pick out reliable wi-fi, on-site parking and an in-house restaurant as the small things that add up over a stay. There's a particular atmosphere to the place, neither overdesigned nor neglected. Service tends to read as attentive without being overbearing in guest write-ups, which usually counts for more than one would expect. Pull the review pages apart and you find around 320 reviews, with a broadly positive consensus that's hard to engineer. The reputation reads as steady rather than spiking. Expect to pay something in the region of €54 a night, a fair-value entry on the board, especially when stacked against nearby alternatives. The honest read on Nairobi Safari Club by Swiss-Belhotel is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Nairobi names rather than a headline of its own.