Hob House is a 3 star property on Kinanda Road in Greater Nairobi, with gardens, a restaurant and parking, and it stands well outside the quarter. The deciding fact is the 8.37 km to Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
01What it is
Hob House lists a full set of practical things: 24 hour security, free wifi and free car parking, a safe, express check in, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and currency exchange. Rooms come with a bath or shower, a desk, a TV, a hairdryer, towels and toiletries, and family rooms are available. There is a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, lunch and dinner, breakfast in room, room service, a lounge, a garden, a terrace and a patio. Where the list is thin is the centre: the property depends on its own grounds and its own kitchen, not on the streets outside. Some facilities sit oddly together, and you should confirm the ones you need before booking.
For a driver, this is simple. Hob House has parking, a restaurant, a garden and room service, and it sits in Greater Nairobi with a shuttle and car rental on the list, so the day is planned around the car. It is a 3 star property and that is the level to expect. What it is not is a walk out of your door into the city. If your reason for coming is the centre, this is the wrong base. If you want a quiet compound and a drive in, it works.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 31 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Biashara Street and City Market, 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 Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten quarters, the closest thing to a centre you can point to. You are outside the grid, in Greater Nairobi, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter you would be travelling to is the market quarter. 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. It is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. Best for 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. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Hob House if you want space and parking over proximity to the centre, and check the dates you need before you commit. 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 Hob House?+
It is on Kinanda Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the Central Business District. It is 8.37 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you should plan on a vehicle rather than a walk.
What facilities does Hob House have?+
The list includes 24 hour security, free wifi and free car parking, a restaurant and bar, breakfast and dinner, room service, a lounge, a garden, a terrace, family rooms, laundry and dry cleaning, and express check in. Some listed items should be confirmed with the property directly.
Can I walk from Hob House into the centre?+
No. It is 8.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 112 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is a direct line, not a route you would take. The quarter is a daytime quarter, and the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
How do I check availability at Hob House?+
Dates and room types are shown when you search, and the free cancellation terms apply to most rooms. You book through app.impt.io. There are no rates published on this site, so the search is where you see what is open for your stay.
