A three star property on 4th Parklands Avenue in Greater Nairobi, with a pool, a garden, a restaurant and parking, and a transport edge on its doorstep. If you will travel by car and want the facilities in one place, it works; if you plan to walk into the centre, it does not.
01What it is
The Decale Jewel Stone Hotel lists a full set of the facilities a visitor would expect from a three star property in Greater Nairobi: an outdoor pool, a garden and a terrace, a spa, a barber or beauty salon, a cafe and restaurant or restaurants, and bars. Practical services cover a 24 hour front desk, express check in, a concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a safe, free wifi, free car parking, a free newspaper, an ATM and shuttle service. There is a meeting room, a playground for children, and wheelchair accessibility. The thin parts of the list are the ones that keep people in the building: no gym, no business centre beyond the single meeting room, and no airport transfer stated as included rather than as a service with a surcharge.
For someone staying at the Decale Jewel Stone Hotel, what that adds up to is a property that handles the basics of a car borne stay: you park on site at no stated charge, you eat and drink without leaving, and the pool and garden give you somewhere to sit when the day is done. The area decides the verdict. The street has a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it reads as a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The Decale Jewel Stone Hotel suits drivers, families with young children, and anyone whose Nairobi business is in the north of the city. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 facilities the supplier lists
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 the Decale Jewel Stone Hotel directly if the pool and the free parking are the reasons you picked it, because those are the parts of the list you cannot substitute elsewhere at this level. 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 the Decale Jewel Stone Hotel?+
It is on 4th Parklands Avenue in Greater Nairobi. By the site's own measure it is 2.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.23 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat those as straight line figures, not a route.
What does the property actually list?+
An outdoor pool, a garden, a terrace, a spa, a barber or beauty salon, a cafe, a restaurant or restaurants and bars. Practical items include a 24 hour front desk, express check in, a concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a safe, free wifi, free car parking, a free newspaper, an ATM, a shuttle service, a meeting room, a playground and wheelchair accessibility.
Can you walk from the hotel into the central business district?+
Not comfortably, and not after dark. The area sits at a transport edge rather than an evening one, with a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. The advice for this location is to cross it by car. If walking into the centre matters to you, this is the wrong end of Nairobi.
What does the guest score of 4.1 out of 5 from 716 reviews tell you?+
It is a solid mid range result from a large number of reviews, which suggests the property delivers consistently on the basics of a three star stay rather than excelling in any one area. Read the recent comments for the specifics, particularly on the rooms and the restaurant, before you choose a rate.
