Africa - Recommendation for Car Service in Nairobi?

Hello FTers,

My wife and I will land in Nairobi quite late (1:30am-ish), and I'd like to arrange for a car service to pick us up at the airport and take us to our hotel. My experiences in other countries is that these car services are also sometimes willing to provide a day or half-day city tour, which is a service I'd also be interested in given our 3/4 of a day in Nairobi the next day. Finally, I'd use the service for transport from our hotel to the other domestic airport in the city.

I've been fortunate to get great suggestions on FT for companies providing these sorts of services in other countries - hoping you can help me out!

Cheers!

What is your hotel? I stay at the IC and they have good car service there. I'm sure any of the decent hotels in town will do the same.

That's a good point, thanks. I'm staying at Fairmont's Norfolk hotel. I could email the concierge and ask for a suggestion. Cheers!

My advice is to call them. Email isn't quite fully installed in the culture there. They might respond but not note it correctly, or they might not respond at all.

That's a good point, thanks. I'm staying at Fairmont's Norfolk hotel. I could email the concierge and ask for a suggestion. Cheers!

Can I ask if you end up going with the hotel and what the cost was? I called and they want $45 per person which, based on the fact that there are 6 of us, i find is a lot.

Thanks!

The IC charges $20 if I recall correctly. $45 is pretty ridiculous. A normal taxi would be around 1000 shillings. And a private hotel car going to the airport should be about 2200 shillings.

I actually haven't dealt with it yet. Trip is still a couple months away and I've been planning other parts of it. $45 one way seems quite steep to me!

especially the per person part.

That would add up to US$270 (most likely ++) which is no where near what it should be....I'll try to do some research on a private car....