A four star apartment-style property in Greater Nairobi with a long facilities list, a pool, a kitchen and free parking. The distance is the deciding factor: it is 3.73 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you want a car, a shuttle or a driver.
01What it is
M&D Zenith Place sits on the sixth floor of Block B at Marina Bay Square, a four star address on the Greater Nairobi side of the city. The list is long and leans practical: air conditioning, a kitchen, a balcony, a safe, iron and board, lifts, free wifi, free car parking and 24 hour security. There is a fitness centre, a swimming pool with an indoor pool among the entries, a pool bar, restaurants and bars, and a golf course. Laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage and currency exchange cover the errands. It is not a small list, and it is not a tidy one either: darts, a playground and a banquet operation sit alongside car rental and a shuttle, which suggests the place is built for groups, families and longer stays as much as for one night.
For someone staying at M&D Zenith Place, that adds up to a self-contained base rather than a place to step out of. You get the pool, the food, the gym, the parking and the kitchen, and you get them without leaving the building. What you do not get is the centre on foot: the property is 3.14 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the quarter it looks onto is narrow, shaded, one-family wide, and shuts in the late afternoon. This suits a driver, a family, a group or anyone on business with a car and a reason to be in Greater Nairobi. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out of the lobby into the middle of the Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 3 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
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book M&D Zenith Place if you want the pool, the kitchen and the parking, and you have a car or a shuttle to cover the 3.73 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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 M&D Zenith Place in Nairobi?+
It is at Marina Bay Square Block B House No B6b, on the sixth floor, in Greater Nairobi. That is outside the Central Business District. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Biashara Street and City Market, at 3.14 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the property list?+
Air conditioning, a kitchen, a balcony, free wifi, free car parking, a safe, lifts, a fitness centre, a swimming pool with a pool bar, restaurants and bars, a golf course, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, currency exchange, a shuttle and car rental. It also lists darts, a playground and a banquet operation.
Can you walk from the property into the centre?+
It is 3.73 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, so walking is possible but not the point of staying here. The streets around the centre are a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan on a car or the shuttle.
How do you check availability for M&D Zenith Place?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a room while you sort out transport. If you need parking or a kitchen, say so at the time of booking rather than on arrival.
