Sankara Nairobi, Autograph Collection

A glass-and-steel tower rising from Westlands' commercial center, Sankara is a business hotel where safari-bound guests and deal-closers share the elevator. The 168 rooms run to pale wood and marble bathrooms, with higher Executive floors trading views over Nairobi's spreading tree canopy. The twelfth-floor rooftop pool and bar are the social argument for staying here, with Nairobi National Park sitting just south of the city.