A four star property on United Nations Crescent, outside the centre and built around the car. It suits you if you are driving in on business and want a pool, a spa and parking on site; it does not suit you if you want to walk out of the door into the Central Business District.
01What it is
Magna Hotel and Suites lists the full apparatus of a four star business hotel: a restaurant and bars, a lounge and a terrace, a business centre and a meeting room, a 24 hour front desk, lifts, luggage storage, multilingual staff and a safe. Free wifi runs through it and car parking is free. There is an outdoor pool, a sauna and a spa. Laundry and dry cleaning are listed, with a surcharge noted against the list, so read the extras before you commit. What the list does not carry is anything about the setting itself: no garden, no grounds, no view, nothing that turns the property outward.
Magna Hotel and Suites works best as a place you arrive at and leave from by car, because that is the shape of the address. United Nations Crescent sits off a flyover and a roundabout with a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The facilities are for an inward stay: you eat, swim, take the sauna and sleep. Who it suits is the business traveller with a vehicle and a reason to be in this part of Greater Nairobi; who it does not suit is anyone planning to walk the city or spend the evening on the street.
02The supplier's photographs
0319 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs. Of those ten quarters, Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest, and it is still a separate place: the northern edge of the grid, where the city loosens and the roads north begin. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is the quarter's own measure, not a walk from your door.
Treat the location as the wider city. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out, and after dark this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge and the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, which makes the quarter best for early markets, and the walk up to the National Museum, if you are already there. Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. You are not.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Booking Magna Hotel and Suites is worth doing before you fix the rest of your Nairobi plan, because the address decides how the whole stay runs rather than the room alone. 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 Magna Hotel and Suites?+
It is on United Nations Crescent in Nairobi, in the area this site calls Greater Nairobi. Measured against the middle of the city, it stands 6.22 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 78 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as a car address.
What does Magna Hotel and Suites actually have on site?+
The four star list covers a restaurant and bars, a lounge, a terrace, a business centre, a meeting room, a 24 hour front desk, lifts, a safe, free wifi and free parking, plus an outdoor pool, a sauna and a spa. Laundry and dry cleaning are listed with a surcharge.
How far is it from the quarters this site covers?+
The nearest of the ten is Ngara and the Globe, and the property is 5.56 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Nothing on the ten is within walking range, so plan each trip out as a car journey rather than a stroll.
What does the guest score tell me?+
It scores 4.3 out of 5 from 116 reviews, which puts it in solid four star territory without claiming more than that. The reviews are a summary of how past stays went, not a promise about yours, so weigh the facilities and the location against your own plans.
