A three star hotel on Mumius South Rd in Greater Nairobi, with parking, breakfast, wifi and a 24 hour desk. The thing that decides it is the street: trucks and vegetables from 5am, and closed, dark and not a place to be after that. Book it for early starts, not for evenings.
01What it is
Jimlizer Hotel lists the practical set: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast, a restaurant, luggage storage, dry cleaning and multilingual staff. There is a smoking area and a TV. The list is thin on anything beyond the basics: no gym, no pool, no airport transfer, no business centre, nothing for a long stay beyond laundry and a room. It is a three star property and the facilities read exactly that way.
What that adds up to is a place to sleep and park before an early morning in the markets, not a place to spend an evening. Jimlizer Hotel sits in Greater Nairobi, away from the centre, and the street outside is working from before dawn, which suits anyone whose day starts at 5am. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk to dinner, drink in a hotel bar, or come back after dark. The 24 hour desk is the one thing that makes a late arrival workable.
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 Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the useful fact it is: you are staying in the wider city, not in the CBD, and anything in the centre means travelling in and out for it. Muthurwa itself is the wholesale edge, where the market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line.
That edge has its own texture: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, so mornings only. Nothing about the quarter makes it a base, and the hotels this page lists are not in it. They are for people who want the wider city and accept the journey in whenever the centre calls.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Jimlizer Hotel if your reason for being in Nairobi is the east markets and the early hours around them, and not the centre after dark. 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 Jimlizer Hotel in Nairobi?+
It is on Mumius South Rd in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre. It is 6.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 80 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is 5.17 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Jimlizer Hotel actually have?+
A 24 hour front desk, breakfast, free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant, luggage storage, dry cleaning, multilingual staff, a smoking area and a TV. It is a three star property, so expect the basics done rather than anything extra on top.
Can I walk into the centre from the hotel?+
The distance is stated as 6.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 80 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a long walk in this city, and the street here is closed, dark and not a place to be after the morning trade finishes.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 3.9 out of 5 from 1557 reviews. A large number of reviews at that level points to a consistent, ordinary three star stay, with the usual spread of complaints, rather than either a standout or a warning.
