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Nestling in the lush garden surroundings of Nairobi's Central Park is the Nairobi Serena Hotel. Here you can enjoy quiet and peaceful moments away from the bustling city, and yet remain within walking distance of it. The superlative accommodation, excellent cuisine, impeccable service and luxurious facilities have all contributed to the Nairobi Serena acquiring the coveted status of being a member of "The Leading Hotels Of The World".
Nairobi Serena Hotel Located In Nairobi, Kenya?
The 190 rooms, business, executive and state suites, all provided with the necessary luxuries and facilities to ensure that you experience every comfort. Extraordinary attention to detail is a hallmark: From the master light switch on the bedside table, bathroom telephone, double glazing and quiet air conditioners, to the fully stocked mini-bar fridges, hand crafted furniture and African works of art.
The Nairobi Serena Hotel is renowned for its exemplary conference facilities and takes pride in being able to offer a wide range of modern equipment including a business center with up to date facilities. Five conference rooms cater for groups ranging from 18 to 320 people, for buffets, meetings, cocktails and banquets.

From the moment you pass through the century-old revolving doors, you leave the heat and bustle of modern Nairobi for a world of cool Victorian elegance. Since it opened its doors in 1902, The Stanley Hotel Nairobi has played host to royal safaris and an array of famous guests. Today, after a total refurbishment, The Stanley has re-adopted its original name and much of its original character. The spacious foyer with its marble floors, leather furniture, antique brass and wrought iron fittings, recalls a graceful era of grand living.

Guarding the entrance is The Stanley's famous acacia xanthophildea whose message board, wrapped around its trunk, and has formed the centerpiece of the legendary Thorn Tree Café since 1959. Centrally positioned in Nairobi's shopping and business district, The Stanley enjoys easy access to the Kenyatta International Conference Center, all the financial institutions and international organizations. The 217 luxurious rooms, the largest in Nairobi, blend Victorian grandeur with modern comfort.

Norfolk Hotel opened on Christmas Day, 1904, to spearhead traditions of hospitality in East Africa. It is a thirty-minute drive from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and a short distance from Nairobi's shopping and business district.

The Norfolk Hotel Nairobi comprises of 107 twin, 60 doubles, and 81 standard rooms, 22 Suites, 55 Deluxe, and 9 Executive.

The 302-room Nairobi Hilton Hotel enjoys a perfect location in the heart of Kenya's capital and provides the business and leisure markets with a superb selection of facilities. All rooms are air-conditioned and have satellite TV, electronic safes, electronic locks, mini bar and hair dryers.
The following amenities are available in suites: bathrobe, complimentary beverage, newspaper delivery of local dailies, refrigerator, two-line telephones, and kitchenette.

The Inter-Continental Hotel Nairobi, overlooking the city, is 5 minutes from the city center and 15 minutes from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. It maintains the same international standards as its sister hotels around the world.

There are 369 rooms including 16 suites, 9 apartments, 80 connecting rooms, 40 non-smoking rooms and 10 rooms with handicap access

The Grand Regency is a freestanding, ultramodern structure of whitewashed concrete pillars and solar glass rising twelve stories above Nairobi's lush Central park. This 5 star deluxe hotel boasts 194 double rooms and suites on twelve floors overlooking an imposing central atrium, at the base of which is the plant filled atrium gardens.
There are 194 beautifully appointed guest rooms, including 32 suites plus 1 Presidential Suite, all offering pure indulgence and sheer comfort.

The Nairobi Safari Club is Kenya's only all suite hotel designed to satisfy the varying needs of business and leisure travelers alike. The suites offer elegance in a unique setting to provide comfort and luxury in equal measure
All Nairobi Safari Club Hotel suites are equipped with a Satellite TV, air conditioning, digital safe, and international direct dialing telephone.
24 hours room service is available.
Nairobi Safari Club Hotel offers same day laundry, dry cleaning and express pressing.
The hotel offers complimentary fresh fruit or coffee beans on arrival and a free health club membership for guests.
Suites are available smoking or non-smoking.
The brasserie restaurant offers delicious haute cuisine from all over the world. The hotel has in place themed nights with an all round world buffet.
The resident band, the rhythmic duo performs live every evening from 7.00 p.m.

Conceived over 50 years ago, the Nairobi Safari Park Hotel and Casino has grown from a British Army officer's retreat during the Colonial period to its current status as a world-renowned inland resort.

Surrounded by sprawling 64-acre grounds, the Safari Park Hotel combines the intrigue of African architecture and art with an infrastructure on the cutting edge of technology. Only 15 minutes from downtown Nairobi, you will have the unique opportunity to experience the fast pace of the city and escape back to the expanse and serenity of the hotel.

Shining through flourishing wild flowers and majestic trees are the welcoming smiles. Arrival at the hotel means people at your service. From the doormen to the receptionists to the guest relations' officers, the lobby staffs are there to ensure your personal needs are satisfied throughout your stay.

Panafric Hotel is located in center city Nairobi. It is 20 minutes from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and serves both business and pleasure travelers.

• First class hotel in nairobi set in spacious natural gardens.
• There are 78 twin rooms, 84 single rooms and 6 suites for your selection.
• Individual apartments are available. There are 30 one-bedroom and 16 two bedroom apartments.
• Guest facilities include: free safety deposit boxes, laundry and valet services.

This historic hotel, formerly the Mayfair Court Hotel Nairobi, enjoyed its first heyday in 1940's Colonial Kenya. Despite being purchased by the Bass Hotels Group, the hotel still retains its distinctive architecture and lush gardens. It is situated in a popular shopping and residential suburb close to the city center, and only 12 miles from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. All 171 guest rooms and 9 suites have color TV, radio, telephone, tea/coffee making facilities and private bathroom. You have a choice of smoking and non smoking rooms.

Owned and managed by three generations of the Szlapak family since 1946 (and since 1993, joined by Eliana Szlapak's husband, Mark Abbema), the Fairview Hotel in Nairobi stands out as a charming and successful blend of the past and the present. Five acres of beautiful landscaped gardens unmatched by any other Nairobi city hotel, combine with comfortable rooms that offer every modern facility, including personal electronic safes, electronic door locks, direct dial phones and internet access.
An individual hotel understands that its guests are individuals too, with distinct requirements. That's why the Fairview offers a choice of room types economy, business or first class and even apartments for those staying a while.

The Karen Blixen Coffee Garden Restaurant and Cottages are located in Karen, Kenya, a beautiful, peaceful suburb approximately 20 miles from downtown Nairobi. The cottages serve as a perfect alternate accommodation to the traditional Nairobi city hotels when visiting the capital city of Kenya during your African safari overnight, Kenya countryside vacation or even on business.

The cottages are located in the midst of one of the oldest formal gardens in Kenya, which have huge jacaranda, candelabra, cactus, bottlebrush, and other trees. Over 200 types of flowers bloom through the year and numerous bird feeders attract hundreds of varieties of birds.

The Panari Hotel Nairobi is the Kenya's latest state-of-the-art hotel along Mombasa Road. The hotel is conveniently located within five kilometers either from the city center or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. As of 2005, Panari Hotel was Nairobi's only new luxury Hotel after 12 years.

The Panari Hotel forms part of the Panari Sky Centre, a state-of-the-art architectural jewel comprising of a huge shopping mall, ice skating rink, cinema theatres and host of food courts catering for the varied exotic tastes. Panari Hotel guests can enjoy the spectacular equatorial sundowners and view wildlife in the adjacent Nairobi National Park from within the hotel's property.

Panari Hotel Nairobi focuses it services primarily on corporate and leisure travelers especially those international travelers visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar during a short layover, making the Panari Hotel's location the best resting hotel

At the very end of Nairobi's Harry Thuku road at the foot of Museum Hill, lies an unexpected oasis, that is, the Hotel Boulevard. It is located within four and a half acres of lush gardens bounded by the Nairobi River at the back, on the other side of which are the green precincts of the National Museum of Kenya.

• There are 70 double bedrooms, (bathroom en suite).
• There are two wings, namely the Pool Wing and the Garden Wing. Each room has its own private balcony. All rooms have a minibar, safe, TV, radio, Internet facilities, and direct dial telephones and are served by a 24-hour beverage delivery service.
• The Pool wing gives you that refreshed feeling. Imagine waking up and seeing the lovely inviting water of the swimming pool.
• The Garden Wing provides you with a country feel. The manicured gardens provide a wonderful place to sit and gather your thoughts. The trees provide a comforting shade during the day, and the sound of the Nairobi river just reinforces the "country feel" of the hotel. Rooms on the ground floor provide a direct access to the gardens. There are wonderful benches and coves located all over these rolling lawns, for you to enjoy a quiet moment.

Built in 1992, the Windsor Golf and Country Club Resort is a cluster of impressive Victorian-styled buildings, providing 130 deluxe rooms, studio suites and cottages.
The Windsor Golf and Country Club Hotel is just a 15-minute drive from the city center of Nairobi, and a 45-minute drive from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
All rooms are equipped with color TV, in-room safes, direct-dial telephones, radios and attached bathrooms. Set amidst lush tropical manicured gardens, their elegant and spacious hardwood floored rooms, suites and cottages overlook the spectacular championship 18-hole golf course. All rooms are tastefully decorated in pastel colors and include many other amenities.

The 18-hole championship Golf Course, designed by Tom Macauley, threads its way through coffee farms and indigenous forest, and boasts lush, springy fairways, fast, true greens and a sprinkling of challenging water hazards and 73 well located sand bunkers. The resort offers other sporting, health and fitness facilities as well as a shopping arcade with a large variety of products including golf equipment and sporting wear.

Swara Plains Cottages are located on the Athi-Kapiti Plains Just outside Nairobi Town. Both Mount Kenya, 100 miles to the north, and Mount Kilimanjaro, equidistant to the south, are visible from the ranch.

Swara Plains Cottages sits on a gently rolling terrain with immense views and big skies that are so much a part of high savannah Africa's beauty and majesty. Initiated by David Hopcraft, a third- generation Kenyan and conservationist, he began experiments on Swara Plains with the support of Cornell University and the National Science Foundation comparing the advantages of wild over domestic animals. 'Duma' a Warner Bros feature is based on the Hopcrafts Story.

The Swara Plains conservancy and surrounding area is home to many species of plains animals including zebra, giraffe, ostrich, numerous antelope and many, many more.
Access by road to Swara Plains Cottages: Only 30 minutes from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi (JKIA) or 1 hour from the city, to the majestic ranch, home of many indigenous animals in Kenya.
Access by air to Swara Plains Cottages: Not even ten minutes from JKIA and Wilson Airport.