A four star Parklands address on the Masari Road side of Fourth Parklands, with a long facilities list and a location well north of the centre. It suits you if you want the pool, the spa, the gym, the restaurants and the casino under one roof, and you will cross the city by car rather than on foot.
01What it is
Cloud Hotel & Suites lists broadly for a four star: air conditioning, free wifi, a restaurant and bars, room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, a lounge, a terrace and a garden, an indoor pool and a swimming pool, a fitness centre, a spa with sauna, steam room and jacuzzi, a business centre, banquet space, a casino and a night club. Rooms come with bath, shower, bidet, WC, hairdryer, toiletries, towels, slippers, minibar, refrigerator, coffee, safe, desk, TV, telephone, alarm clock, iron and board, ipod dock and cot. Practical extras include a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, concierge, luggage storage, laundry, dry cleaning, currency exchange, ATM, parking, car rental, shuttle service, lifts, smoking area, wheelchair access and family rooms. The list is thin on nothing much except what the area itself provides, which is very little for an evening.
What it adds up to is a self contained four star, and that is the whole argument. Cloud Hotel & Suites is built so that the meal, the meeting, the swim, the gym and the drink are all inside the building, which matters here because the street outside is not an evening street. The area is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and you cross it by car. It suits business travellers, conference and banquet groups, families who want the pool and the cots, and anyone who wants the city at a remove. It does not suit you if you want to step out of a lobby into the centre, or if you plan to walk to dinner.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 42 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers, on the edge of the centre in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the one you are sleeping in. Treat it as a base you travel in and out of: anything in the CBD means a crossing by car rather than a walk from your door.
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the grid, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin, and the Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge. The fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, Museum Hill is the next rise beyond, and the street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The quarter itself lies 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Cloud Hotel & Suites if you have decided you want the facilities on site and you are content to take a car for the centre, because that is the trade this address asks you to make. 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 Cloud Hotel & Suites?+
On the corner of 4th Parklands and Masari Road, in Parklands, Greater Nairobi. It is 2.94 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.22 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat both as car journeys.
What does the hotel have on site?+
Cloud Hotel & Suites lists air conditioning, free wifi, restaurant and bars, room service, breakfast, an indoor pool, a fitness centre, a spa with sauna and steam room, a business centre, banquet space, a casino, a night club, parking, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security. It is a four star with a deliberately broad in house list.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
You cross by car. The street has a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one. That is the honest cost of staying this far north, and you should plan the trip rather than walk it.
What does the guest score mean?+
Cloud Hotel & Suites scores 4.1 out of 5 from 567 reviews. That is a solid four star result rather than an exceptional one: the facilities and the service carry it, and the location is the thing reviewers tend to weigh against it. Read it as a good hotel in a place you drive out of.
