A three star hotel on Mihango Road out in Greater Nairobi, well away from the centre. The thing that decides it is the hours you keep: this stretch works at dawn and shuts early, so it suits an early start and not a late night.
01What it is
Airport Gate View Hotel is a three star property on Mihango Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre. The listed facilities are the practical sort: 24 hour security, car parking, a restaurant, a bar, room service, laundry, a luggage room, a concierge, a meeting room and wheelchair access. Rooms are non smoking and smoking, with cot, hairdryer and sofa bed options, and wifi and internet access are listed. Check in is from 10:00 and check out at 10:00. The list is thin on detail: no gym, no pool, no airport transfer times, and nothing about what the rooms face or how they are laid out.
What that adds up to is a functional bed near the eastern edge of the city, not a base for seeing Nairobi. Airport Gate View Hotel sits in Greater Nairobi, 14.38 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 180 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 13.18 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street there is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. It suits an early market run or a one night stop, and it does not suit anyone wanting the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Airport Gate View Hotel if you want a straightforward room on the eastern side and you are moving early, and look elsewhere if you want the centre at night. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. Every confirmed booking removes one tonne of CO2, at no extra cost to you. Five percent of what you pay comes back as IMPT credit, out of the hotel commission rather than added to your bill.
Facts on this page come from the booking supplier's record: star class, address, photographs and facility list. Guest scores come from verified stays. Nobody from this site has stayed here; the quarter copy around it is this site's own.
06Questions
Where is Airport Gate View Hotel?+
It is on Mihango Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre. It sits 14.38 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 180 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 13.18 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
The list covers 24 hour security, car parking, a restaurant, a bar, room service, laundry, a luggage room, a concierge, a meeting room, wheelchair access, wifi and non smoking and smoking rooms. Cot, hairdryer and sofa bed are listed. There is no pool or gym on the list.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
This is not a walking base for the centre. The drive is the realistic option, and the site's own line about the area is that it is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, closed, dark and not a place to be after dark. Mornings only, effectively.
What does the guest score mean?+
It has a guest score of 4 out of 5 from 126 reviews. That is a solid three star result from a decent number of stays, not a luxury score. Read it as a functional, well used property rather than one with standout rooms or service.
