Karen Crescent Hotel is a 3 star property on Kafuka Road in Karen, part of Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. Its parking, garden and conference space decide whether it suits you. Come by car, or not at all.
01What it is
Karen Crescent Hotel lists the equipment of a small conference hotel: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, laundry service and luggage storage. Outside there is a garden and a terrace, with a smoking area. The list is thin on the things a leisure guest asks about first. There is no pool and no gym, air conditioning is not named, and no airport transfer is listed.
For someone staying here, that adds up to a place built around a car and a meeting. Karen Crescent Hotel works if you are driving, parking on site, eating in the restaurant and leaving the grounds by vehicle. It does not work if you want to step out to shops and bars on foot, because the surrounding streets are new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 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 Karen Crescent Hotel if you want a quiet, car-based base in Karen with parking and a meeting room on site, rather than a central address. 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 Karen Crescent Hotel?+
Karen Crescent Hotel is on Kafuka Road in Karen, in Greater Nairobi. It stands 10.79 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 135 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is 8.92 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
Is Karen Crescent Hotel central for the CBD?+
No. Karen Crescent Hotel sits in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district, and the central quarter this site covers is Upper Hill and Community. Plan on driving or taking a ride. The CBD is not a walk you want to make, and the streets around the hotel are built for cars.
What facilities does Karen Crescent Hotel list?+
Karen Crescent Hotel lists a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, laundry service, luggage storage, newspapers, a garden, a terrace, a smoking area and a TV. There is no pool, no gym and no airport transfer on the list.
What does the guest score mean here?+
Karen Crescent Hotel holds 4.7 out of 5 from 7 reviews. That is a high average from a very small number of guests, so treat it as a direction rather than proof. Twelve photos are on file. The score tells you past guests were satisfied, not that the hotel suits every kind of trip.
