Alijo Palace is a three star hotel on Imara Gardens, Mombasa Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It is 5.99 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That distance and the road decide whether it suits you.
01What it is
Alijo Palace is a three star property on Imara Gardens, Mombasa Road, in Greater Nairobi. The facilities it actually lists are short: a babysitting service and a luggage room. That is the whole of what is published. A babysitting service matters if you are travelling with children and need an evening without them. A luggage room matters if your day is built around a late departure or an early arrival and you cannot carry your bags into the city with you. Everything else a hotel of this size usually advertises, food, a bar, a gym, a pool, is absent from the list. Alijo Palace publishes two useful things and stops there.
What that adds up to is a place to sleep on the Mombasa Road side, not a base for the centre. The street outside runs on 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. Mornings only. That is not a flaw in the hotel; it is the nature of the quarter. Alijo Palace suits someone with business, freight or a depot on this side of the city, and someone who wants their evenings indoors. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out to restaurants, bars or the markets after dark. Take a ride if you go anywhere.
02The supplier's photographs
032 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 this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the useful fact it is: you are staying in the wider city, not in the CBD, and anything in the centre means travelling in and out for it. Muthurwa itself is the wholesale edge, where the market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line.
That edge has its own texture: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, so mornings only. Nothing about the quarter makes it a base, and the hotels this page lists are not in it. They are for people who want the wider city and accept the journey in whenever the centre calls.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Alijo Palace if you have a reason to be on the Mombasa Road side and no reason to be in the centre. 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 Alijo Palace?+
It is on Imara Gardens, Mombasa Road, in Greater Nairobi. That is 5.99 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it is not a central address. You are on the southern road corridor, not in the CBD.
What facilities does Alijo Palace list?+
Two: a babysitting service and a luggage room. A three star rating is the only other thing published about the property. There is no restaurant, bar or gym in the listed facilities. Treat the list as complete and plan your meals and evenings accordingly.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Alijo Palace is 7.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 89 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a direct line, not a route you should walk. The street is closed, dark and not a place to be after dark, so plan on a ride rather than a walk.
What does the guest score mean?+
Alijo Palace scores 4.7 out of 5 from 287 reviews. That is a strong score from a decent number of reviewers, and it is worth reading alongside the small facilities list. It tells you people who stayed were satisfied, not that the property offers more than it lists.
