A 3 star hotel on Kayole Spine Rd in Greater Nairobi, built around free parking, a 24 hour desk and a restaurant. The location decides it: this is a morning side of the city, and the ten kilometre gap to the centre is the thing to weigh before you book.
01What it is
Davana Hotel lists the practical set: 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking and additional parking, plus a restaurant, a bar, laundry service, luggage storage, a safe, a concierge and a terrace. The property is wheelchair accessible. Where the list is thin is anything beyond the working basics: there is no gym, no pool, no airport transfer and no meeting space named, so this is a 3 star operation that does the simple things and stops there.
What that adds up to is a hotel for someone arriving by car, working early and leaving early. The desk never closes, the parking is free and included, and the terrace gives you somewhere to sit that is not your room. It does not add up to a base for seeing central Nairobi on foot or for evenings out, because the address is out on Kayole Spine Rd and the surroundings close down after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
0312 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 Davana Hotel if your plans run on wheels and daylight rather than on foot and nightlife, and confirm the parking with the desk when you reserve. 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 Davana Hotel?+
It is on Kayole Spine Rd in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district. For scale, it is 8.95 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on reaching the centre by vehicle, not on foot from the door.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
The listed facilities are a 24 hour front desk, restaurant, bar, concierge, free wifi, free car parking plus further parking, laundry service, luggage storage, a safe, a terrace and wheelchair access. There is no gym, pool or meeting room in the list. It is a 3 star hotel covering the working basics.
How far is the city centre from the hotel?+
It is 10.07 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 126 minutes on foot in a direct line. The direct line is not a route you would walk. Treat that gap as the main planning decision: the hotel suits people who have a car or a driver for the day.
What does the 4.4 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average of 730 reviews, so it reflects a large and consistent body of guest feedback rather than a handful of opinions. Read it as a solid, broadly satisfied result for a 3 star property, and check recent comments yourself for anything that matters to you.
