A 3 star hotel on Parklands Road Westlands, north of the centre and past the museum. The Impala Hotel has a garden, a terrace, restaurants and a night club. If you want a full service compound with parking and a shuttle, and you do not mind being outside the business district, this is a reasonable fit.
01What it is
The Impala Hotel lists the apparatus of a full service 3 star: 24 hour front desk and express check in, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant or restaurants, bars, room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, laundry, housekeeping, luggage storage, a safe, a garden, a terrace, a banquet room and a night club. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a shower, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, and there are non smoking rooms, family rooms, a wheelchair accessible category, an iron and board, and a barber and beauty salon. The list is thin on detail about the rooms themselves: no indication of size, outlook or how the family rooms are laid out, and nothing about a lift or a gym.
For someone staying at the Impala Hotel, this adds up to a place you use as a base rather than a destination. The car park, the shuttle service and the front desk that never closes matter more here than any single facility, because the position is on the northern edge of the city rather than inside it. It suits drivers, families who want room to move between rooms and garden, and anyone who prefers a compound with security at the gate to a smaller place on a central street. It does not suit a visitor whose day is built around the business district, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into an evening.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers, on the edge of the centre in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the one you are sleeping in. Treat it as a base you travel in and out of: anything in the CBD means a crossing by car rather than a walk from your door.
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the grid, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin, and the Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge. The fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, Museum Hill is the next rise beyond, and 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 after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The quarter itself lies 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book the Impala Hotel direct if you want the car park, the shuttle and a room that can take a family, and read the room type carefully 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 the Impala Hotel in Nairobi?+
The Impala Hotel is on Parklands Road Westlands, north of the central business district. It sits 2.68 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 34 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is the nearest covered quarter, 2.21 km from Ngara and the Globe, that gives the clearest sense of the edge it occupies.
What facilities does the Impala Hotel have?+
Free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, restaurants, bars, room service, breakfast, a garden, a terrace, a banquet room and a night club. Rooms have air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a shower and toiletries, with non smoking and family rooms listed. There is a wheelchair accessible category and a shuttle service.
How do I get into central Nairobi from the Impala Hotel?+
This part of Greater Nairobi is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The hotel lists a shuttle service and free car parking, which is the practical arrangement from Parklands Road Westlands. The centre is not walkable in the way a hotel inside the business district would be.
What does the 3.8 guest score mean for the Impala Hotel?+
It is 3.8 out of 5 from 194 reviews, which is a middling rather than a poor result for a 3 star property of this size. Read the recent comments against the facility list, check whether the room type you are booking matches what you need, and treat the score as a starting point rather than a verdict.
