The rooms are spacious and elegant, offering facilities such as air conditioning, colour television with in-house movie channel, video, radio, direct dial telephone, minibar, 24 hour room service and non-smoking rooms. Made famous by Ernest Hemingway, the hotel's 'Thorn Tree' cafe offers light meals and drinks with indoor and outdoor seating. In addition, the hotel has recently added a Thai restaurant. Originally built in 1902, this is an eight-storey colonial building painted white and renovated as recently as 2003. The hotel has a large stylish lobby with black and white tiled floor and a wide dark wood reception desk. A rooftop swimming pool with sun deck, a modern health club and gymnasium, florist, chemist, beauty salon, travel agent and modern conference facilities are all available to guests. This property remains one of the best hotels in Kenya. (TO/0307)
Kimathi Street & Kenyatta Ave.,, Nairobi (Kenya). Located in the very heart of Nairobi city close to the best art and curio shops as well as the cities best restaurants. The hotel is 19 kilometres from Nairobi international airport. 19 kms to the airport (nairobi) 7 kms to the airport (nairobi-wilson apt) 1 km to the nearest station (nairobi) 1 km to the nearest fair site (kenyatta intl conference ctr)
