A 3 star guest house on Magadi Road, out in Greater Nairobi, built around the car and the conference room rather than the street. It suits you if you are driving and want parking, food and a bar on site. It does not suit you if you want to walk into the centre.
01What it is
Impala Guest House lists the equipment of a working stop rather than a place to linger. There is free car parking, which is the point of the location, plus a restaurant and a bar, breakfast, luggage storage, dry cleaning and a smoking area. Rooms have a TV. Staff are multilingual, and the property is wheelchair accessible. Where the list is thin is in anything beyond that: no gym, no pool, no airport transfer, no business centre, nothing for children, and no detail on what the rooms themselves contain.
What that adds up to is a straightforward 3 star on Magadi Road in Greater Nairobi. You arrive by car, you park, you eat and drink on site, you sleep. Impala Guest House works for a driver breaking a journey, a contractor on a nearby site, or anyone attending a conference in this part of the city who does not need to be in the centre. It does not work for a first time visitor who wants the Central Business District on foot.
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 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
Book Impala Guest House if you have your own car and your business is out this way rather than in the centre. 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 Impala Guest House?+
It is on Magadi Road in Greater Nairobi, well outside the Central Business District. It sits 17.5 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The setting is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room rather than for walking.
What does Impala Guest House have on site?+
A restaurant and a bar, breakfast, free car parking, luggage storage, dry cleaning, a smoking area, a TV in the room, multilingual staff and wheelchair access. That is the whole list. There is no pool, no gym and no airport transfer.
How far is it from the centre of Nairobi?+
It is 19.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 243 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is not a walk you would make. Arriving with a car, or with a driver arranged, is the practical way to treat this address.
What is the area like after dark?+
Safe and dull. Hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The evening options are the bar at the property itself or a car to somewhere else. If you want the city centre at night, stay nearer the centre rather than out on Magadi Road.
