A 3 star hotel on Lagos Road, inside the Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street press, with full room facilities and overnight security. Choose it for the address, and choose it knowing that the surrounding streets are a daytime place and that you will want a car after dark.
01What it is
The Marble Arch Hotel sits on Lagos Road at Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, a listed 3 star property with a long facilities sheet. Rooms come with air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a refrigerator and a kitchen or kitchenette, plus bath, shower, WC, towels and toiletries. You get free wifi, a television and a telephone, and the hotel lists a 24 hour front desk, express check in, luggage storage, concierge, currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, a business centre, car rental, a shuttle service and free car parking, along with a restaurant, room service, breakfast, breakfast in room, a bar and a terrace. Where it is thinner is on quieter, more personal amenities.
What the Marble Arch Hotel adds up to is a practical address for someone whose business is in the commercial core and who values a guarded door covered by 24 hour security more than a pretty setting. The listed facilities cover most of what a short stay needs, free wifi and car parking and a bar and terrace, but the location is noisy and entirely on foot during the day, so it suits people who will be in and out. It does not suit light sleepers, families wanting calm, or anyone who plans to walk around after dark, and it is plainly not a leisure hotel.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 26 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street
Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street is the busy grid, and it is the loudest, fullest pavements in Kenya: hawkers, phone shops, preachers, and a bus every few seconds. Two parallel streets carrying most of the pedestrian traffic in the country. The National Archives sits at the Moi Avenue end in the old Bank of India building, and the whole stretch is shops at street level with offices stacked above. It is best for street life, errands, and the Archives gallery in the middle of it. The quarter sits 0.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4 minutes on foot in a direct line.
After dark it thins out fast after the commute and is better avoided late. Take a car after dark. That is the trade: you are paying for the heaviest footfall in the country, and the same footfall disappears by evening, leaving pavements you should not cross on foot. It suits anyone who wants the day to happen at street level and is happy to retreat behind a door at night. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on the pavement outside.
Read the whole of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street05Booking it
If you need an address inside the commercial core and a room that covers the basics, the Marble Arch Hotel should be booked early, because the surrounding lanes fill up and the good rooms go with them. 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 the Marble Arch Hotel?+
Lagos Road, Nairobi, in the Central Business District at Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street. It is 0.25 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the commercial core is within easy walking range during working hours.
What does the hotel list?+
A 3 star property with air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a refrigerator, a kitchen or kitchenette, bath, shower, towels and toiletries. It also lists free wifi, a television, a 24 hour front desk, security, a restaurant, room service, a bar, a terrace, car rental, a shuttle service and free car parking.
Is the area busy?+
Yes. The pavements around Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street are the loudest, fullest in Kenya: hawkers, phone shops, preachers, and a bus every few seconds. It thins out fast after the commute and is better avoided late. Take a car after dark. The Marble Arch Hotel is 0.21 km from the centre of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street.
What does the guest score mean?+
The Marble Arch Hotel scores 4.1 out of 5 from 1089 reviews. Treat that as a solid, consistent result rather than an outstanding one. A 3 star property with this much feedback is normally doing the basics well: the room, the wifi, the security and the desk. Check the recent comments for anything that matters to you.
