A three star hotel on Muhoho Avenue in South C, well outside the centre. It suits you if you have a car and a reason to be in this part of Nairobi. It does not suit you if you want to walk to the city.
01What it is
Arova Hotel lists the ordinary equipment of a three star city hotel: air conditioning, a private bathroom with towels and a hairdryer, a mini fridge, coffee, a safe, a smoke detector, and non smoking rooms. There is internet access, 24 hour security, a concierge and multilingual staff. A restaurant serves meals on site and there is a smoking area. The list is thin on detail beyond that: no gym, no pool, no airport transfer, and a surcharge line that tells you some things cost extra without saying which.
What that adds up to is a functional room in a part of Greater Nairobi that is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here. Arova Hotel works if you are driving, if you want security and parking and a meal without leaving the building, and if your business is in this direction rather than the centre. It does not work if you plan to walk to the Railway Quarter or Kenyatta Avenue, and it is not a place to be out on foot after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
0316 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 the centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, past the ten quarters this site covers. The nearest of those quarters, for orientation only, is The Railway Quarter, on the southern edge of the grid, and that is as close as the connection goes. You are in the wider city here. Anything in the CBD means travelling in and out, so plan the day around that rather than around a short step from your room.
The Railway Quarter itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, the museum, and understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift; the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, so keep it to daylight and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book Arova Hotel if you have confirmed you can reach it by car, because the location decides everything here. 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 Arova Hotel?+
On Muhoho Avenue in South C, in Greater Nairobi. It is 3.12 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it outside the centre, in an area of industrial land and sheds, and you will need a vehicle to move between the two.
What does Arova Hotel have in the room?+
Air conditioning, a private bathroom, towels, a hairdryer, a mini fridge, coffee, a safe and a smoke detector. Non smoking rooms are listed. There is internet access and 24 hour security. The list stops there: no kitchen, no balcony, no workspace is named.
Can I walk from Arova Hotel into central Nairobi?+
You can, but the route is long and the surroundings work against it. The centre is 3.87 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line. The streets here are industrial and unlit in stretches, so daylight only, and a car back.
What does the guest score mean?+
Arova Hotel has 4.4 out of 5 from 7 reviews. Seven is a small sample, so treat the score as a rough signal rather than a settled verdict. It suggests the people who booked were broadly satisfied, but it cannot tell you much about the rooms or the service on a given night.
