A 3 star roadside hotel on Mombasa Road at Mlolongo, far out in Greater Nairobi on the freight corridor. The decision is simple: if your day runs on truck traffic and the Mombasa Road side, it works. If you want the centre at night, it does not.
01What it is
Anthena Hotel lists the full set a 3 star roadside property in Greater Nairobi is expected to carry. Secure parking, with a garage and car parking named separately, and 24H. Security. Internet access, Wifi and mobile phone network. Reception area, room service, restaurant and bars. Bathroom, shower, toiletries, slippers. Cot and sofa bed, pets allowed, smoking rooms, wheelchair accessible. The list is thin on two points worth naming: the bars and restaurant are the only food and drink on the property, and no airport transfer or shuttle appears at all.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Anthena Hotel is a workable, no-surprises stop for a driver or a freight crew working the Mombasa Road corridor, or a traveller who wants a parked car, a room with a bathroom and a restaurant downstairs. It is not a base for the centre. The property sits in Greater Nairobi at Mlolongo, and the nearest quarter this site covers is the markets, 17.56 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. A guest score of 4.5 out of 5 from 17 reviews is a small sample, so read it as a direction rather than a verdict.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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 Anthena Hotel through this site rather than by walking in off Mombasa Road. 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 Anthena Hotel?+
On Mombasa Road at Mlolongo, listed as Mombasa Road 111 Mlolongo, in Greater Nairobi. It is 18.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 233 minutes on foot in a direct line. The address is a road address, so plan the approach by vehicle, not on foot.
What does Anthena Hotel actually list?+
Secure parking with a garage, 24H. Security, Wifi, internet access and mobile phone network, a reception area, room service, restaurant and bars, plus bathroom, shower, slippers and toiletries. It also names cot, sofa bed, pets allowed, smoking rooms and wheelchair access. There is no pool, gym or shuttle on the list.
How do I get into central Nairobi from here?+
Anthena Hotel is well outside the centre, in Greater Nairobi at Mlolongo, so getting in means a road journey on Mombasa Road. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is the east markets area: 17.56 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the 4.5 out of 5 guest score mean here?+
It is 4.5 out of 5 from 17 reviews. That is a strong average on a small number of stays, so treat it as a signal about the basics rather than a settled reputation. It tells you past guests were satisfied, not that the property is comparable to a larger hotel in the centre.
