A three star apartment block on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for the car and the conference room. The listed facilities are everyday ones. What decides it is that you drive here, and that you take a ride when you want the centre.
01What it is
Alba Gardens City Views by YourHost is a three star property on Jabavu Ln in Greater Nairobi. The list is practical rather than generous: free car parking and parking again, a shuttle service, dry cleaning, a smoking area, wheelchair access, an outdoor pool and a spa. A surcharge is listed without saying what it applies to, which is a gap worth a question before you commit. There is no restaurant, no gym, no laundry beyond dry cleaning, and nothing said about how the rooms are laid out or what they face. The pool and the spa are the only facilities here that read as leisure. Everything else exists to get you parked, cleaned up and moved on.
What that adds up to, for anyone staying at Alba Gardens City Views by YourHost, is a base that works off a car and a schedule. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and it sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. It suits a driver with business in Upper Hill, or a delegate who wants the car parked and the room quiet. It does not suit anyone on foot all day, or anyone who wants restaurants and bars at the door. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
039 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one directly if you want the parking and the pool held for you rather than sorted on arrival. 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 Alba Gardens City Views by YourHost?+
It is on Jabavu Ln in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It stands 3.5 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 44 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on driving or taking a ride into the centre rather than walking it.
What facilities does the property list?+
Free car parking, parking, a shuttle service, dry cleaning, a smoking area, wheelchair access, an outdoor pool and a spa. A surcharge appears on the list without explanation. There is no restaurant and no gym, so plan meals and workouts elsewhere. Ask about the surcharge before booking.
What is getting into the centre like from here?+
It sits in Greater Nairobi, not the Central Business District. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Upper Hill and Community, 2.12 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. You drive the rest or take a ride, and after dark that is the settled habit here.
How do I check availability for Alba Gardens City Views by YourHost?+
Availability sits with the property and with the booking platform it is listed on, since this page holds no rates. Check the dates you want there, and confirm at the same time what the listed surcharge covers, whether the pool is open during your stay, and whether parking is held for you.
