Trademark Hotel

Sitting inside the Village Market complex in Gigiri, Nairobi's diplomatic quarter, this hotel puts shopping, a weekly Maasai market, and a surprisingly global restaurant lineup at your door. Rooms and suites lean contemporary, with the kind of small, considered touches that suggest someone thought it through. When dinner calls, the options run from open-grill brasserie to Japanese to Thai, which is more than most neighborhoods can claim.

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