A 3 star hotel on Woodvale Grove, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central grid. It lists a long, ordinary service list and a nightclub, and it suits anyone who wants a bed, a shuttle and a quiet street more than a central address.
01What it is
The Emerald Hotel Nairobi is a 3 star property on Woodvale Grove, and its facilities list is broad and practical rather than glamorous. You get 24 hour security, parking and valet parking, a safe, smoke detectors, non smoking rooms and lifts. There are bars, a night club, a terrace, a restaurant, room service and a banquet room. Services include a concierge, currency exchange, laundry and a launderette, a cloakroom, a luggage room, car rental, a shuttle, a market and shops, medical service, newspapers and multilingual staff. The list is thin on what a room contains beyond a hairdryer, and there is no pool, garden or gym.
For someone staying at the Emerald Hotel Nairobi, that adds up to a working hotel with the machinery of a trip covered: you can change money, leave a bag, eat, drink, get a car and get to bed in a non smoking room. The night club and bars mean the building has a late side, and the quarter around it does not. Greater Nairobi is a residential and commercial belt rather than the centre, and this property sits outside the city's daytime core, so you are relying on the shuttle, the car rental desk or a ride to move. It suits business travellers and anyone who wants quiet and parking. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0329 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 the Emerald Hotel Nairobi if the facilities list and the address suit you and you want the flexibility of a free cancellation. 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 the Emerald Hotel Nairobi?+
The Emerald Hotel Nairobi is on Woodvale Grove in Greater Nairobi. It is 2.56 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it outside the central grid, so you will not be walking out of the lobby into the business district.
What facilities does the Emerald Hotel Nairobi list?+
The list covers 24 hour security, parking and valet parking, a safe, smoke detectors, non smoking rooms and lifts, plus bars, a night club, a terrace, a restaurant, room service and a banquet room. Services include a concierge, currency exchange, laundry, a launderette, a cloakroom, a luggage room, car rental, a shuttle, shops and medical service.
How do I get into the centre from the Emerald Hotel Nairobi?+
The property is in Greater Nairobi, 3.11 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 39 minutes on foot in a direct line. The hotel lists a shuttle service, car rental and valet parking, so the practical answer is to use one of those rather than treat the centre as a walk.
What does the guest score mean at the Emerald Hotel Nairobi?+
The guest score is 4 out of 5 from 173 reviews. That is a solid, unremarkable result for a 3 star property: most people got what the facilities list promises. Treat it as a guide to whether the place delivers its own list, not as a claim about the centre.
