A five star hotel on Riverside with the full machinery of a large international property: pool, gym, spa, several restaurants and bars, and business and banquet space. It sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre itself, and the deciding factor is whether you want a self-contained hotel or a doorstep in the quarter.
01What it is
dusitD2 Nairobi lists what a five star hotel is expected to list. There are several restaurants and bars, a lounge and a terrace, a swimming pool with a kids pool beside it, a gymnasium, a sauna and a spa with massage. Business and event space runs to a business centre and a banquet room. Practical items are all present: air conditioning, wifi, lifts, non smoking rooms, car parking, a safe, iron and board, laundry and dry cleaning, concierge, currency exchange, an ATM and multilingual staff. Babysitting is offered, pets are allowed, and there is a garden and facilities for disabled visitors. Where the list thins is anything specific to the neighbourhood: nothing here addresses the quarter itself.
What that adds up to for someone staying here is a resort-like compound in Greater Nairobi rather than a base inside the centre. dusitD2 Nairobi is 2.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 34 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.11 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the centre is a deliberate trip rather than a step out of the lobby. It suits people whose day is booked inside the hotel: meetings, conferences, families using the pool, anyone who wants dinner and a gym without leaving the gate. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the quarter in the evening, because this is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. If your Nairobi is the centre after dark, stay in the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 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. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book dusitD2 Nairobi if you want the hotel to be the whole of your day, and book the room you will actually use, since the property is set up for guests who stay in. 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 dusitD2 Nairobi?+
It is on 14 Riverside Off Riverside Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. It is 2.11 km from Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you should plan on reaching the centre by vehicle rather than assuming you can walk out of the lobby into it.
What does dusitD2 Nairobi have on site?+
The listed facilities cover restaurants and bars, a lounge and terrace, a swimming pool with a kids pool, a gymnasium, sauna and spa with massage, a business centre and banquet room, air conditioning, wifi, lifts, car parking, laundry and dry cleaning, concierge, currency exchange, an ATM and multilingual staff. Babysitting is available and pets are allowed.
Can I walk from dusitD2 Nairobi into the centre?+
The distances are short but the streets are not built for it. The hotel is 2.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 34 minutes on foot in a direct line. Add that the quarter is a daytime one, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, and a vehicle is the sensible choice.
What is the guest score for dusitD2 Nairobi?+
It holds a guest score of 4.2 out of 5 from 106 reviews. That is a solid figure for a five star property of this size, and it reflects the hotel as a self-contained place to stay rather than a position in the centre, which it does not have.
