A three star on General Waruinge Street in Eastleigh North, with a terrace, a 24 hour front desk and step free access. What decides it is the hours: this street works before dawn and shuts, dark and unwelcoming, once the vegetable trade is done.
01What it is
Decale Palace Hotel lists three things: a 24 hour front desk, a terrace and wheelchair access. The front desk matters most here because it is the only part of the day the building stays open to you, and the accessible route in is worth knowing before you commit if stairs are a problem. The terrace is somewhere to sit, nothing more. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no airport transfer named in it, so treat the facilities as thin and plan your meals and your evenings somewhere else.
Put together, Decale Palace Hotel is a place to sleep and leave from early, not a base for the city. It sits in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre, and its own street is finished by mid morning. It suits someone with business at the Eastleigh North markets, arriving with the trucks. It does not suit anyone who wants the Central Business District on foot, an evening meal downstairs or a walk after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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. Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the ground you are sleeping on. Treat that as the arrangement: you are in the wider city, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD. The nearest quarter is 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that figure describes the quarter, not your route from these hotels.
That quarter 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. The street feel is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, best done as an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. It is mornings only: closed, dark and not a place to be after dark. From these hotels you go in for that, and back out again, and the rest of your day starts with the trip.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Decale Palace Hotel only once you have matched its mornings to your own schedule. 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 Decale Palace Hotel?+
It is on Eastleigh North General Waruinge Street, in Greater Nairobi rather than the Central Business District. It is 2.13 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street around it is Eastleigh North, not the centre.
What does the hotel actually offer?+
The listed facilities are a 24 hour front desk, a terrace and wheelchair access. Nothing else is named, so do not expect dining, a bar or a gym on site. The front desk being staffed around the clock is the practical one, since you will be arriving or leaving outside normal hours.
How do I get into the Central Business District from here?+
You are outside it. The hotel is 3.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 40 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a direct line, not a route you would walk. Plan on a vehicle into the centre, and plan it for daylight.
What is the area like, and is it safe later on?+
The street handles trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only is the honest summary. If you want an evening out, sleep nearer the centre instead of here.
