Kenyatta Avenue Kimathi Street
Nairobi, Nightly Rates(255.00 - 575.00)5 Star
Property Description
Passing through The Sarova Stanley's revolving doors, you leave the hustle and bustle of modern Nairobi and enter into a world of cool Victorian elegance. Since 1902, The Sarova Stanley has hosted royal safaris and an array of famous guests. Today, after total refurbishment, The Sarova Stanley has readopted its original name and much of its original character, with a spacious foyer furnished with leather upholstery, antique brass and wrought-iron fittings. The world-famous "Acacia xanthrophildea," with a message board wrapped around its trunk, guards the entrance to the legendary Thorn Tree Cafe. This is East Africa's best-known pavement cafe ? take a seat and, like Ernest Hemingway, who used to sit here, watch the world go by.
Amenities
220 AC
Air Conditioned
Airline Desk
Babysitting/Child Services
Balcony
Bar/Lounge
Barber Shop
Barber/Beauty Shop
Porters
Boutiques
Business Center
Car Rental Desk
Casino
Conference Facilities
Coffee Maker in Room
Concierge Desk
Currency Exchange
24 Hour Front Desk
Handicapped Rooms/Facilities
Disco
Doctor on Call
Drugstore
Express Checkout
FAX
Florist
Game Room
Golf
Exercise Gym
Hairdryers Available
Health Club
International Direct Dial
Guest Laundromat
Lounge
Mini Bar
Mini Bar
Modem Lines in Room
Meeting/Banquet Facilities
Free Newspaper
News Stand
Picnic Area/Tables
Play Ground
Pool
Poolside Snackbar
Parking
Valet Parking
Radio
Restaurant
Room Service
24 Hour Room Service
Safe Deposit Box
Safe
Sauna
Secretarial Service
Security
Smoke Detectors
Fitness Center or Spa
Sprinklers In Rooms
Telephone
Tennis
Theater Desk
Temperature Control
Tour Desk
Turndown Service
TV
Television with Cable
Laundry/Valet Services
Wake-up Service
Room Information
Rooms
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The hotel boasts 217 of Nairobi's largest, quietest and most luxurious rooms, which blend Victorian grandeur with modern comfort. Club rooms are even more spacious and offer deluxe amenities; Executive rooms have an ensuite lounge and cloakroom; the opulent Presidential, Penthouse and State suites are the pinnacle of luxury.
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Miscellaneous Information
American Dollars is the native currency.
Check in time is Open
Check out time is 10:00am
Time Zone is Standard Time - 0300 UTC
Opened in 1913
Renovated in 1998/99
217 rooms.
0 suites.
8 floors.
Directions
Based in the heart of Nairobi's central business district, The Sarova Stanley enjoys easy access to major financial institutions, a large number of international organisations, the famous Kenyatta International Conference Centre and the High Court. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is just 18 km (20 min) away while Wilson Airport is 7 km away (10min).
NBO - Jomo Kenyatta Int'l Airport
Guarantee Policy
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Cancellation Policy
Subject to the discretion of the hotel, the credit card provided may be charged if the reservation is canceled after the cancellation deadline has passed or if the guest fails to arrive. The cancellation policy will appear after selecting rate rules.
Restaurant Information
Restaurants
Zen Restaurant offers wines and award-winning international dishes. The Thorn Tree Cafe serves specialty and regular coffees, freshly baked pastries and pies, pizza and à la carte with live entertainment every evening. The Pool Deck has sumptuous buffets and a vast array of salads. The Exchange Bar, a comfortable and relaxing lounge bar, is a popular business-networking venue.
Meeting Facility
Meeting & Conference Facilities
* 8 fully-equipped function rooms including a 227 square metre ballroom * "Motivator" - Customised Conference Solutions: featuring state of the art ergonomic, multi-presenter facilities such as Plasma screen, DVD, VCR, 4 in 1 secretarial unit, pull down screens, Personal Event manager, on-site audio-visual specialist * Combined capacity of up to 800 delegates * Fully-fledged Business Centre with computers email, Internet, fax, photocopier and personalized secretarial services.
Recreation Information
Leisure
Relax on the secluded pool deck beside the heated swimming pool while ordering from the poolside bar and restaurant, or workout at the fully equipped gymnasium with state-of-the-art cardiovascular equipment. A Fitness Centre offers daily aerobics classes, a sauna and a steam room. Also featured in the hotel complex is an elegant shopping arcade with a hair salon, bookshop and chemist.
Related Kenya Content
Kenya is regarded by many as the ‘jewel of East Africa’, and has some of the continent’s finest beaches, most magnificent wildlife and scenery, and an incredibly sophisticated tourism infrastructure. It is a startlingly beautiful land, from the coral reefs and white sand beaches of the coast to the summit of Mount Kenya, crowned with clouds and bejewelled by strange giant alpine plants.
Between these two extremes is the acacia-studded rolling savannah, which is home to game parks such as Amboseli, the Masai Mara, Samburu
and Tsavo; the lush, agricultural highlands with their sleek green coat of coffee and tea plantations; and the most spectacular stretch of the Great Rift Valley, the giant scar across the face of Africa.
Above all, Kenya is a place for safaris, and one-tenth of all land in Kenya is designated as national parks and reserves. Just about every African plains animal is present. Over 50 parks and reserves cover all habitats from desert to mountain forest, and there are even six marine parks in the Indian Ocean.
Kenya also has a fascinatingly diverse population with around 40 different tribes, all with their own languages and cultures. Major tribes include the Kikuyu, the Luyia and the Luo, but the most famous are the tall, proud, beautiful red-clad Masai, who still lead a traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle of cattle-herding along the southern border.
A mixture of African and Asian, the unique Swahili culture can be found along the balmy coast, where for centuries it became prosperous on the profits of commerce from the tradewinds that carried ocean-going dhows (sailing boats) across the Indian Ocean to Arabia and Persia.
Kenya does have some downsides as a tourist destination. There is enormous pressure to buy anything and everything, often at ridiculously inflated prices, and even taking a photograph in the local market is likely to incur a cost. But despite this, the people are friendly and the tourist trade is supremely well organized and professional. For those in search of a little adventure, this can be an ideal holiday destination.
Geography Kenya shares borders with Ethiopia in the north, Sudan in the northwest, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south and Somalia in the northeast. To the east lies the Indian Ocean. The country is divided into four regions: the arid deserts of the north; the savannah lands of the south; the fertile lowlands along the coast; and highlands in the west, where the capital Nairobi is situated. Northwest of Nairobi runs the Rift Valley, dotted with lakes and containing the town of Nakuru, while further west the Aberdare National Park is overlooked by Mount Kenya (5,200m/17,000ft), which also is a national park. In the far northwest is Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolph), and in the southwest is Kenya’s share of Lake Victoria.
Kenya is a multicultural society; in the north live Somalis and the nomadic Hamitic peoples (Rendille, Samburu and Turkana), in the south and eastern lowlands are Kamba and Masai and the Luo live around Lake Victoria. The largest group is the Kikuyu who live in the central highlands and have traditionally been dominant in commerce and politics, although this is now changing. There are many other smaller groups and, although Kenya emphasises nationalism, tribal and cultural identity is a factor. A small European settler population remains in the highlands, involved in farming and commerce.
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