Stanley Hotel
The hotel also boasts an elegant shopping arcade, a fully equipped health club with heated swimming pool and a modern business centre. Its conference facilities can accommodate up to 400 people.
A Host to Several Films
The hotel was the base for several films and their casts;
The United Artists' production of 'The Macomber Affair', the film of Ernest Hemingway's intriguing hunting story 'The Short Happy life of Francis Macomber', starring Gregory Peck, Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and others. MGM's hilarious 'Mogambo' starring Clark Gable, Donald Sinden, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly (later Princess Gracia Patricia of Monaco) Stewart Granger was another face seen around The Sarova Stanley during the making of 'King Solomon's Mines'.

First Ever Order to Kenya Breweries
The Sarova Stanley made the first ever order of beer from Kenya Breweries Ltd. Under the management of Mr. Waterman, The Sarova Stanley in 1922 took delivery of the first ever order undertaken by Kenya Breweries Ltd -10 cases of beer. The Hurst Brothers set up Kenya Breweries in 1922.
Exchange Bar - First Home of the Nairobi Stock Exchange

The Sarova Stanley's Exchange Bar was the first home of the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
The original bar in The Sarova Stanley, called Long Bar was acknowledged by the English Sunday Times as one of the 'Famous Long Bars of The World'. It was replaced later by the Safari Bar on the first floor and later still by the Exchange Bar.
This last was the birthplace of Nairobi's first and only Stock Exchange where previously four businessmen had sat, since 1954, transacting their business of stocks and shares.
Today The Sarova Stanley's Exchange Bar sports a 'Wall of Fame', on which, in places of honour, hang photographs of the chief executives of the current top 20 companies on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

The Thorn Tree
Guarding The Sarova Stanley's entrance is the world's famous messenger- an, whose message-board has formed the centrepiece of the legendary Thorn Tree Café since 1959.
Although the café is now on its third acacia and the messages now flowing from the trees own web-site, the atmosphere of Africa's best known meeting place is still as warm and welcoming as it was in those early days.
Thorn Tree is an open-air café, famous meeting point of East Africa since the time of the Safari aficionado Ernest Hemmingway. It was the thorn tree itself, of the Acacia Xanphopholoea variety, that gave the café its present name. Like a trusted messenger, the tree became the bearer of messages that were stuck on its yellowish trunk to be plucked off by travelers visiting the hotel.
The original tree was felled in 1961 and a replacement was planted. By 1997, the tree showed the symptoms of maturity when its’ branches started drooping and natural lean became more exaggerated. A farwell party was held to bid the old tree farwell and to welcome its replacement, a young acacia of the same variety. Buried beneath the four meter high tree is a time capsule bearing an inscription specifying that it will be opened in the year 2038 when the tree will have reached maturity. The capsule contains a selection of artifacts depicting the present state of the world. It now meets with this centuries requirements and has a cyber café and is open from 9.00am-11.00pm
Stanley Hotel Children Policy
Children under 3 = no charge
3-12 if sharing with an adult: 25% of room rate