A three star hotel on Airport North Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, with a 24 hour front desk, shuttle service and free parking. Its location decides everything: you are close to the airport side and far from the Central Business District. Book it for a flight or an early market run, not for a city stay.
01What it is
Airport Landing Hotel lists a wide, conventional set of facilities. There is 24 hour front desk cover and security, free wifi, air conditioning, a restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast, a fitness centre and gymnasium, a lounge, lifts, free car parking and valet parking, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and a shuttle service. Rooms carry the standard goods: bath, shower, WC, toiletries, towels, hairdryer, iron and board, safe, desk, TV, telephone, refrigerator, coffee, alarm clock and wake-up service. The list is thin in one place. Every facility here is generic, and nothing on it is distinctive to Nairobi, the airport side or this street.
For someone staying at Airport Landing Hotel, that adds up to a practical, unglamorous base in Greater Nairobi. You get space, parking, a desk and a bed, and staff on the desk at any hour. You do not get a city position: this is 8.1 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the quarter itself is a daytime one. It suits a flight connection, a driver, a trader on the vegetable run, or anyone with business on the airport side and no interest in the centre. It does not suit a visitor whose trip is the Central Business District, a walkable evening or a hotel bar to sit in.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 19 more on the supplier's own record. 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 Landing Hotel by deciding first whether its Greater Nairobi position works for you, because the room itself is not the problem. 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 exactly is Airport Landing Hotel?+
Its address is Airport North Road, Greater Nairobi, not the Central Business District. You are 9.28 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 116 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8.1 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel actually have?+
A 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi, air conditioning, restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast, laundry, luggage storage, free car parking, valet parking, a fitness centre and a shuttle service. Rooms have bath or shower, toiletries, towels, hairdryer, safe, desk, TV, telephone and refrigerator.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
Treat the centre as a separate trip. The property sits off Airport North Road in Greater Nairobi, and the nearest quarter this site covers, Muthurwa with its east markets, is 8.1 km away. Ask the desk about the shuttle rather than planning on foot, and remember the market quarter works in the morning, not after dark.
What does the guest score tell me?+
Airport Landing Hotel holds 4.2 out of 5 from 1215 reviews. That is a solid, consistent score for a three star property, and it reflects a place doing the basics well rather than anything remarkable. Read it as confirmation of function, not as a guide to the neighbourhood.
