A three star hotel on Hillcrest Drive in Karen Plains, out on the ridge in Greater Nairobi. The deciding fact is the setting: new concrete built for the car and the conference room, safe and dull after dark, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It suits a working stay and not a walking one.
01What it is
Maison Mitwaba is a three star property on Hillcrest Drive in Karen Plains, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. The listed facilities are few and mostly quiet. There is a garden and a library, which are the two a visitor would actually notice, plus laundry service, a luggage room and multilingual staff. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym in it, and nothing at all about transport, so what you get is a small set of practical extras and no sense of a full service hotel.
Put together, Maison Mitwaba reads as a calm, low key base for someone whose day is already arranged elsewhere. The garden and library give you somewhere to sit that is not your room, and laundry service and a luggage room cover the mechanics of a longer stay, but the list stops there. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. That suits a guest with a car and a schedule in Greater Nairobi, and it does not suit anyone wanting to walk out to dinner or treat the centre as a base.
02The supplier's photographs
035 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 Upper Hill and Community, 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 Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Maison Mitwaba if you want a quiet, car based stay on the Karen Plains ridge, and check the facilities list against your own needs before you commit. 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 is Maison Mitwaba?+
It is on Hillcrest Drive in Karen Plains, in Greater Nairobi rather than the Central Business District. The site puts it 11.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 139 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.34 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Maison Mitwaba actually have on site?+
The listed facilities are a garden, a library, laundry service, a luggage room and multilingual staff, and it holds a three star rating. There is no restaurant, bar or gym on the list, so plan meals and evenings elsewhere. The garden and library are the two most guests would use.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The setting is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Nothing in the facts covers public transport, and the distances are long, so arrange your own vehicle or accept paying for rides.
How do I check availability at Maison Mitwaba?+
Availability and room types are shown when you search on app.impt.io, which is where bookings for this property are made. Most rooms can be cancelled free. Because the facilities list is short, confirm what you need at the point of booking rather than assuming it is there.
