A 3 star hotel on Airport North Road in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and closest to the eastern markets. It works if you have transport and early business; it does not work if you want the Central Business District on foot.
01What it is
Airportview Hotel Nairobi is a 3 star property on Airport North Road in Greater Nairobi, and its listed facilities are mostly the practical sort. There is a 24 hour front desk, free wifi and free car parking, a safe and luggage storage, laundry, dry cleaning, newspapers and a smoking area, plus a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a cafe and bars. Bicycle hire and a shuttle service are listed. The night club and smoking area are the only entries that ask a question of the wrong kind of visitor, and the list says nothing about rooms themselves, no size, no views, no breakfast detail. The single entry reading surcharge tells you the extras exist without saying what they are.
What that adds up to for anyone staying at Airportview Hotel Nairobi is a functional base rather than a place to spend a day. The 24 hour desk, parking and business center suit someone arriving late, leaving early or working in the area with a car. The night club pulls the other way: this is a 3 star hotel on Airport North Road, not a quiet retreat, and the address is in Greater Nairobi, 8 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Suits drivers, people with early commitments and short stopovers. Does not suit anyone planning to walk into the centre or see the city after dark from here.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 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 Airportview Hotel Nairobi if you accept that the address is outside the centre and that you will need a car or a lift to get anywhere. 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 Airportview Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Airport North Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the Central Business District. The site measures it as 9.17 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 115 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking and car parking, a safe, luggage storage, laundry, dry cleaning, a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a cafe, bars, a night club, a smoking area, newspapers, bicycle hire and a shuttle service. Wheelchair accessible is listed. The list is thin on room detail.
How do you get into the centre from Greater Nairobi here?+
You do not do it on foot with any ease. The hotel sits 8 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 9.17 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 115 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a car, a shuttle or a lift.
What does the 3.8 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is a middling score from 449 reviews, which fits a 3 star property doing the basics without distinction. Read it as a hotel that satisfies people who need the location and the parking, and does not pretend to be more than that. It is not a recommendation of the rooms themselves.
