A three star house on Kerarapon Drive, out on a ridge where the new concrete was built for cars and conferences. The car park is free and the wifi is free. What decides it is the address: you need a vehicle, and the evening ends where the hotel bar ends.
01What it is
House of Two Birds lists the ordinary things and lists them plainly. There is a bathroom with a shower, towels, toiletries, a TV and free wifi, plus housekeeping, dry cleaning service and multilingual staff. Breakfast is listed and coffee is listed. Cribs are available, the rooms are non smoking, and there is a smoking area elsewhere on the property. Parking is free, which matters here. What is not listed is where the list goes thin: no restaurant for dinner, no pool, no gym, no airport transfer, no bar of its own, and no indication of how many rooms there are.
House of Two Birds is a place to sleep and work, not a place to spend a day. The free parking and the free wifi cover the two things you will actually use it for, and the cribs make it workable for a family travelling by car. The catch is the setting: this is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It suits a driver with business on the ridge and no wish to be in the middle of anything. It does not suit anyone on foot, or anyone who wants the evening to be part of the trip.
02The supplier's photographs
0316 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 Upper Hill and Community, 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 Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Booking House of Two Birds is a question of whether you will have a car, because almost nothing here is reachable on foot. 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
How do I get to House of Two Birds from central Nairobi?+
It sits 17.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 222 minutes on foot in a direct line. That figure settles the argument: a direct walk is not the plan. Arrange a car, and treat this address as a base for the ridge rather than for the centre.
What facilities are actually available at the property?+
The listed facilities are a bathroom with a shower, towels and toiletries, a TV, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast, coffee, housekeeping, dry cleaning service, multilingual staff, cribs, non smoking rooms and a smoking area. Meals beyond breakfast are not listed.
Is House of Two Birds close to any of the quarters this site covers?+
It is 16.11 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Upper Hill is where a lot of the city's office work sits, so the property is a commuter base rather than a walkable one. Expect to drive in.
How should I check whether House of Two Birds has rooms free?+
Check availability for Kerarapon Drive in Greater Nairobi through app.impt.io, the booking route this site uses. The listing on file carries no guest score, so judge it on the facilities and the address rather than on ratings. Cribs are listed, so ask for one if needed.
