A five star airport hotel with the full business and leisure list, built for people flying out or driving in. It is not in the centre and not near it, so it suits you only if your reason for being in Nairobi is the airport or a car.
01What it is
Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport by IHG carries a five star rating and a long facilities list. There is a 24 hour front desk, security, concierge and currency exchange. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a bath or shower, a bathrobe and slippers. The hotel lists a fitness centre, gymnasium, outdoor pool, pool bar, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, spa and massage. For eating and meetings there are restaurants, bars, a lounge, banquet space, a business centre, breakfast, lunch and room service. It also lists free wifi, free car parking, valet parking, a shuttle service, laundry and dry cleaning, babysitting, high chairs, a cot and wheelchair access. The list is thinner on where you actually are: this is Greater Nairobi, and the centre is not at the door.
For someone staying at Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport by IHG, the property is a contained base with the services a full service hotel usually offers, and the surrounding area is not part of the stay. It sits 10.62 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 11.79 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 148 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it well outside the centre this site is about. It suits flyers, people with a car, and anyone whose day is built around the airport side of the city. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out into the Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 40 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 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 this one if your plan already puts you on the airport side and you want the facilities handled in one place. 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 Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport by IHG?+
It is on First Freight Lane in Greater Nairobi, not in the Central Business District. The site measures it at 10.62 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 11.79 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 148 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as an airport side base rather than a centre address.
What does the hotel actually list?+
A five star property with a 24 hour front desk, security, concierge, currency exchange, free wifi, free car parking and valet parking, plus a shuttle service. It lists restaurants, bars, a lounge, banquet space, a business centre, a fitness centre, gymnasium, outdoor pool, pool bar, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, spa and massage. Rooms include air conditioning, desk, safe, minibar, bathrobe, slippers and toiletries. It also lists laundry, dry cleaning, babysitting, high chairs, cots and wheelchair access.
How do you get into the centre from here?+
You do not walk it. The hotel is in Greater Nairobi, and the site's own line for this part of the city is that the centre is closed, dark and not a place to be after dark, and mornings only. The listed shuttle service and the free and valet parking are the practical answers, along with arranging your own transport. Plan your centre time as a deliberate trip out and back.
What does the 4.7 out of 5 guest score mean here?+
It comes from 1980 reviews, so it is a large sample rather than a handful of comments. A score that high on that many reviews points to a property that reliably delivers what it lists. It tells you nothing about the surrounding streets, which the site describes as trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and closed, dark and not a place to be after dark.
