A 3 star hotel on Mombasa Road beside Tapps Institute, well outside the centre. The address is the decision: it is for drivers and early risers who need a bed on the industrial edge rather than for anyone planning to see Nairobi's centre on foot.
01What it is
Kings Premier Inn lists a full housekeeping and service set: 24 hour front desk and security, concierge, express check in, luggage storage, laundry, cleaning and housekeeping. Rooms come with air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a TV, a safe, a shower, a WC, towels, toiletries, slippers, an alarm clock and a balcony, and there are family rooms, cots and babysitting. The list is thin in one place that matters for this address. Nothing states a pool, gym or garden, so the offer is a room and its services, not a resort.
For someone staying at Kings Premier Inn, this is a working hotel on the Mombasa Road corridor: restaurant, bar, breakfast and breakfast in room, buffet and dinner, room service, lounge, night club, banquet space, lifts, free wifi, free car parking, valet parking, car rental, bike rental, shuttle, a market, pets allowed and a smoking area. The street is trucks, handcarts and the whole city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, mornings only.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 25 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 are not in Muthurwa and the east markets, 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 Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
The reason to book this one is the car park and the 24 hour desk rather than the 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 exactly is Kings Premier Inn?+
Next to Tapps Institute on Mombasa Road, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 17.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 223 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is not in the centre of town.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
Air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a safe, a shower and a balcony, plus a 24 hour front desk, security, wifi, free car parking, valet parking, a restaurant, a bar, a night club, breakfast, room service and family rooms with cots.
How far is it from the central quarters?+
It sits 16.75 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Any trip into the centre is a car trip, not a walk, so plan around the road rather than the pavements.
What does the guest score of 4.1 mean?+
It is the average from 152 reviews, so it reflects a settled, above-average stay rather than a handful of opinions. Read it as a mid-range hotel that most past guests found acceptable, not as a luxury guarantee.
