A three star hotel on Jabavu Road in Hurlingham, Greater Nairobi, built around the car and the meeting room. The question that decides it is whether your days are planned around a car. If they are, this works. If you want to walk out of a lobby into the middle of Nairobi, it does not.
01What it is
MAA Hotel and Suites Hurlingham Nairobi is a three star property on Jabavu Road, listed with 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, concierge, express check in, lifts, luggage storage and free parking with a garage. Rooms are air conditioned and non smoking, with desk, TV, safe, bath and shower, bathrobe, slippers, hairdryer, toiletries and towels. There is free wifi, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, room service, iron and board, cots, family rooms and wheelchair access. Eating and meetings run through a restaurant, lunch, banquet space, special diets, copy facilities and a garden. Leisure is a fitness center, aerobics and a spa. The list is thin on detail: it names the categories without saying what is in the spa, what the restaurant serves, or how many of each room type exist.
For someone staying here, that adds up to a practical, car first hotel rather than a base for the centre. MAA Hotel and Suites Hurlingham Nairobi sits 1.8 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Book it if you are here for a meeting, a hospital visit or a night before an early departure, and you value parking, quiet and a desk over street life. Do not book it if you want to step out of the lobby into the Central Business District, or if you plan to spend the evenings on foot. This is a hotel for people with a reason to be in Hurlingham, not for people who want Nairobi on the doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 14 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one by room type and by whether you need the car parked, because the parking and garage are the reason to choose it over a centre 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 MAA Hotel and Suites Hurlingham Nairobi?+
It is on Jabavu Road in Hurlingham, in Greater Nairobi, well outside the Central Business District. The site measures it at 3.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line. In practice you would not walk that, you would drive or take a ride.
What does the hotel actually list among its facilities?+
The list covers the working basics: 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi, free car parking and a garage, air conditioning, non smoking rooms, a restaurant, room service, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, a fitness center, aerobics, a spa, a garden, banquet space and wheelchair access. It does not describe the spa treatments or the restaurant menu.
Is it practical to stay in Greater Nairobi and get into the centre?+
Only if you are travelling by car or by ride. The property is 1.8 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it sits on new concrete on a ridge built for the car and the conference room. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score of 4.6 out of 5 from 505 reviews tell you?+
It is a strong score from a large number of reviews, so the basics are being delivered consistently rather than occasionally. It does not guarantee the specific room you want, and it says nothing about how close you are to the Central Business District. Treat it as a signal on execution, not on location.
