A four star IHG hotel off Limuru Road at Runda, attached to Two Rivers Mall and set well outside the centre. The one thing that decides it for you is a car. With one, this is an easy, quiet, well-equipped base. Without one, the centre is a long way off and the evening here belongs to the road.
01What it is
The Holiday Inn Nairobi Two Rivers Mall by IHG lists the full apparatus of a four star business hotel: a 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi and parking, a business centre, concierge, currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, a gymnasium, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a restaurant, bars, room service and breakfast in the room. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, coffee, a TV and a bath or shower, and family rooms and a cot are available. Two Rivers Mall is at the door. Where the list is thin is on the city: nothing here is arranged around walking anywhere, and the mall is the whole of the immediate neighbourhood.
For someone staying at the Holiday Inn Nairobi Two Rivers Mall by IHG, that adds up to a self-contained base. You eat, shop, swim and work without leaving the compound, and the transport edge outside is something you cross by car rather than on foot. It suits business travellers with a car or a driver, families who want the mall and the pool, and anyone whose Nairobi business is not in the centre. It does not suit anyone coming to see the CBD on foot. The hotel is 8.78 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 110 minutes on foot in a direct line.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 46 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book the Holiday Inn Nairobi Two Rivers Mall by IHG only once you have settled how you will get around, because the answer decides whether this address works for you. 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 Holiday Inn Nairobi Two Rivers Mall by IHG?+
It is off Limuru Road at Runda, at Two Rivers Mall, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It sits 8.12 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street feel there is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
A 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi and parking, a business centre, gymnasium, outdoor pool and pool bar, restaurant and bars, room service, breakfast in room, laundry, currency exchange, a safe, air conditioning, family rooms and a cot. It is a full four star list, strongest on the in-house grounds rather than the street outside.
How do you get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
By car. The hotel is 8.78 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 110 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is not a walk you take casually. The area after dark is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and you cross it by car rather than on foot.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property has a guest score of 4.6 out of 5 from 623 reviews. That is a strong score from a large number of stays, and it points to a place that delivers what it advertises: a well-run, four star hotel attached to a mall, with the centre a car ride away.
