Maple Inn Hotel is a 3 star on Northern Bypass Rd in Membley, Greater Nairobi, and the thing that decides it is the drive: the centre is well out of reach on foot, so come with a car or a booking that includes a shuttle, and treat it as a northern base rather than a downtown one.
01What it is
Maple Inn Hotel lists the full set you would expect of a three star in Greater Nairobi: air conditioning, free wifi, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, free car parking and a garage, a restaurant, bar and lounge, breakfast and room service, laundry and dry cleaning, a business centre, a fitness centre and gymnasium, a spa and massage, family rooms, a garden, terrace and patio, a playground, a chapel, and a wheelchair accessible layout. It is a wider list than the location alone would promise, and a few entries repeat themselves, bars under three names, coffee and water filed as separate items, which suggests a long list rather than a carefully edited one. There is no pool, no airport desk, and nothing here that turns the address into an evening.
What it amounts to is a self-contained property on a transport edge, useful if you are arriving by car, working in the north of the city, or holding something in the banquet and business rooms. Maple Inn Hotel suits drivers and people with their own reason to be in Membley, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of a lobby into the Central Business District: the property sits 15.61 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The bar and lounge, night club and karaoke give the evening somewhere to go without leaving the compound.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 54 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Maple Inn Hotel if your plans already put you on the Northern Bypass side of the city, because the location is the whole decision here. 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 Maple Inn Hotel?+
On Northern Bypass Rd in Membley, in Greater Nairobi. The site measures it at 16.34 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 205 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is not a walk from the door. Plan on a car.
What does the property list?+
Air conditioning, free wifi, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free car parking, a garage, a restaurant, bar and lounge, breakfast in room, a fitness centre, a spa, family rooms, a garden, a chapel and a business centre. There is no pool and no airport desk.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The drive in is the main cost of staying here. It sits 15.61 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and you cross it by car rather than on foot. The shuttle service and car rental are the practical answer.
What does the guest score mean?+
It holds 4.3 out of 5 from 382 reviews, which is a solid three star result rather than an outstanding one. Treat it as evidence that the basics, the front desk, security and the rooms, are handled, and not as a sign of anything more.
