A 3 star guest palour on Old Mombasa Rd, out where Greater Nairobi turns to market gardens. It is a morning place, on a road that wakes for vegetables and goes quiet for the rest of the day. Whether it suits you comes down to one thing: do you need the centre at night.
01What it is
Evening Dew Guest Palour lists the practical set: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast, luggage storage, dry cleaning, a restaurant, multilingual staff, a smoking area and wheelchair access. The 3 star rating is honest about the rest. There is no pool, no gym and no airport transfer on the list, and nothing about a bar or a room service menu, so do not expect those.
Evening Dew Guest Palour is a place to sleep and eat and leave from, not to spend an afternoon in. A car is the sane choice here: parking is free, the centre is 10.55 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 132 minutes on foot in a direct line, and Old Mombasa Rd is a working road, not a strolling one. It fits a driver with early business in the city or the east markets. It does not fit anyone who wants bars and restaurants on the doorstep after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
0310 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 Evening Dew Guest Palour if your days start before the city does, since the room is a base rather than a destination. 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 Evening Dew Guest Palour?+
It sits on Old Mombasa Rd in Greater Nairobi, away from the centre. It is 9.47 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you are closer to the market end of town than to Kenyatta Avenue and the office district.
What facilities does the property list?+
A 24 hour front desk, breakfast, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, dry cleaning, a restaurant, multilingual staff, a smoking area and wheelchair access. That is the whole list. There is no pool, no gym and no shuttle, and the star rating is 3.
Is the area around Old Mombasa Rd busy?+
By day it is work: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. By night it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Treat the mornings as the point of staying here and plan your evenings somewhere else, with a car arranged.
How do I check availability at Evening Dew Guest Palour?+
Availability is checked online for your dates, and the room list comes up with what is open. The 24 hour front desk handles arrivals at any hour, and breakfast is listed if you want it. Book ahead if your stay falls on a market morning, when the road is at its busiest.
