The Southern Sun Mayfair is a popular city hotel, located in the now very popular Westlands District of the capital city, which is just beyond the city centre and offers extensive shopping malls, restaurants and attractions. Once one of colonial Kenya’s most prominent hotels, The Southern Sun Mayfair, (formerly known as the Holiday Inn Mayfair Court Hotel, and enjoyed considerable fame in the 1940s. This charming city hotel has since been transformed into a comfortable, spacious, modern hotel whilst retaining its distinctive architecture and lush gardens. Built in the colonial style, The Southern Sun Mayfair has been considerably extended and now offers an open-air pool deck and 12 acres of charming landscaped gardens.
Location
Half an hour from Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (and other airport hotels.
Facilities
The Mayfair Holiday Inn has two swimming pools (one for lane-swimming/children’s activities and one with extensive pool-deck), a shopping arcade (with hairdressing/beauty salon), a Fitness Room (aerobics, sauna, steam, massage), and is immediately adjacent to one of Nairobi’s leading casinos, The Mayfair Casino. Unlike many other central Nairobi hotels, The Mayfair Holiday Inn also offers extensive secure parking.
Accommodation
The Mayfair Holiday Inn offers a total of 171 ensuite guests rooms offering; free newspaper, mini-bar (executive rooms only), direct-dial telephone, satellite TV/in-room movies, tea/coffee making facilities, 18-hour room service, WiFi connection (at additional cost), in-room safe, hairdryer, laundry, medical services and residents lounge. Facilities for the disabled are available, plus non-smoking rooms.
Number of rooms or tents
- Smoking rooms available: 171
- Number of handicapped rooms: 1
- Number of suites: 2
- Honeymoon suite: Available
- Family or Interconnecting rooms: 10
- Family Rooms: 5
- Triple room (3 beds for 3 adults): 1
Guest services
The Mayfair Holiday Inn offers mobile phone reception throughout, medical services, airport shuttle (at a fee). The majority of rooms in this city hotel are no smoking: smoking rooms available.
Dining and bars
The informal Oasis Restaurant offers local and international cuisine from an extensive buffet menu as well as a snack service. Mischiefs Restaurant offers an a la carte and snack menu for lunch and dinner, while the Golden Spur is one of the cities favourite steakhouses. Drinks can be taken around the pool or in the stylish Mischiefs Cocktail Bar.
Conference and event facilities
The hotel is a popular Nairobi business venue and offers a wide range of conference and event rooms, which can accommodate up to 350 delegates in nine separate rooms. All audio-visual equipment supplied. There is also an efficient Business Centre.
Weddings and honeymoons
Ideally placed in the centre of Kenya’s capital city, the The Mayfair Holiday Inn offers wedding venues, wedding catering, wedding flowers, wedding photography, pre- and après wedding events and a series of honeymoon offers and packages.
Child friendly
The Mayfair Holiday Inn is exceptionally child-friendly offering children’s activities, family rooms, babysitting, extra beds, and children’s meal times (0-3 years no charge).
What to do and see
This popular city hotel is ideally placed for tours of the city centre, the Nairobi Railway Museum and the Kenya National Museum. This city centre business hotel also lies approximately 7 minute’s drive from Nairobi National Park, the only ‘city park’ in the world. Wildlife sightings include lion, rhino, a wide range of plains game and hippo.
Other Kenya capital city attractions
Kenya’s cosmopolitan city centre also offers a broad selection of city centre golf courses and city centre health clubs, a flying club, race track and more. This vibrant capital city also offers a wide range of city centre shopping malls and cultural and handicraft markets.