A 3 star resort with a garden, restaurant, bar and night club on Fedha Road off Outering Road, away from the centre. It suits you if your day starts before the city does; it does not if you want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Lowela Place Resort lists the full hotel apparatus: a 24 hour front desk, concierge, express check in, luggage storage, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, a safe, non smoking rooms, family rooms and a currency exchange. You get a restaurant, bars, a bar and lounge, a pool bar, a night club, a game room, shops and a garden, plus breakfast, wifi and free internet in the lounge, free bottled water, free car parking, car rental and a shuttle service. The room list is thin: bathroom, shower, toiletries. No gym, no business centre, no airport transfer detail.
What that adds up to for a stay at Lowela Place Resort is a walled compound of food, drink and grounds well east of the centre. The listed shuttle and car rental are the practical answer to the distance, because the address is 8.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 108 minutes on foot in a direct line. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am is the street outside. After dark that street is closed, dark and not a place to be. The night club sits behind the gate rather than on that street, which is the only reason to consider it after dark. Book it if you want quiet, parking and a garden; skip it if you want the CBD at your door.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 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 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
Booking Lowela Place Resort is worth doing ahead if you want one of the non smoking or family rooms. 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 Lowela Place Resort?+
It is on Fedha Road, off Outering Road, in the Greater Nairobi area, well away from the centre. It is 7.4 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on a vehicle.
What does the property actually have on site?+
The list covers a restaurant, bars, a bar and lounge, a pool bar, a night club, a game room, shops and a garden. Practical items include a 24 hour front desk, concierge, express check in, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, free parking, car rental and a shuttle.
What is it like getting into the centre from there?+
It is a long way out. Lowela Place Resort sits 8.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 108 minutes on foot in a direct line. The listed shuttle service and car rental are the sane way to cover that, and you should arrange them rather than walk.
What does the guest score of 3.4 out of 5 tell me?+
It is a middling score from 69 reviews, which fits a 3 star property with a broad facility list but a thin room specification. Read it as a place people accept rather than rave about, and treat the distance from the centre as the deciding factor.
