A 3 star property on Outering Rd Savannah in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and built around drivers and early trade. The deciding fact is the road outside: the market street runs from before dawn and is finished by afternoon, so this suits you if your day starts early and you have your own transport.
01What it is
Maates Hotel lists the practical things first. There is a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, multilingual staff and wheelchair access. For eating and drinking there is breakfast, one or more restaurants and one or more bars, plus a smoking area. The list is thin in two places. There is no airport transfer, no shuttle and no gym, pool or meeting space, and nothing is said about the state of the rooms themselves. The 3 star rating claims working basics, not comfort, and the listed facilities match that reading.
Taken together, Maates Hotel is a straightforward place on a working road in Greater Nairobi. You get a bed, a desk that never closes, parking and food on site, which is what someone arriving by car for the produce trade would want. You do not get to walk out to a restaurant strip or a bar at night. The road outside is heavy with trucks and handcarts at dawn and the district empties later. Book Maates Hotel if your business is early and your vehicle is here. Do not book it if you plan to spend your evenings in the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0310 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 this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the useful fact it is: you are staying in the wider city, not in the CBD, and anything in the centre means travelling in and out for it. Muthurwa itself is the wholesale edge, where the market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line.
That edge has its own texture: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, so mornings only. Nothing about the quarter makes it a base, and the hotels this page lists are not in it. They are for people who want the wider city and accept the journey in whenever the centre calls.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Maates Hotel is the kind of place you book once you have decided your day starts on Outering Road and not in the centre. 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 Maates Hotel?+
It is on Outering Rd Savannah in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It sits 6.8 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 5.58 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel actually provide?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, multilingual staff, wheelchair access, breakfast, at least one restaurant and bar, and a smoking area. It is a 3 star property, so expect working basics rather than extras. No shuttle, gym, pool or meeting rooms are listed.
What is the area around Outering Road like?+
It is a working market road. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables change hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only. That is the single most useful thing to know before you choose to stay here.
What does the guest score mean?+
Maates Hotel scores 3.9 out of 5 from 276 reviews. That is a middling result for a 3 star: enough people were satisfied with the parking, the desk and the food, and enough found the setting and the rooms ordinary. Treat it as a fair working hotel, not a comfortable one.
