A three star hotel on Lower Plains Road in Greater Nairobi, built for people arriving by car. It has a pool, a garden and conference space, but it sits 12.1 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 152 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you are not staying in the centre.
01What it is
Margarita House lists the full machinery of a working hotel: 24 hour front desk, 24H. Security, express check in, concierge, luggage storage and a business center with copy services. Rooms come with bath, bathroom, shower, WC, towels, toiletries, hairdryer, slippers, safe, desk, TV, minibar, coffee, water and iron and board, and there are non smoking rooms and family rooms. Food runs from breakfast, breakfast in room and buffet through lunch and dinner, with special diets and room service. Outside there is an outdoor pool and a kids pool, garden, terrace, picnic area, playground and fitness center, plus spa and massage. The list is thin on two things: only a shuttle service and car rental cover transport, and the pool and playground sit alongside a lounge and fireplace without any detail on how they are arranged.
Margarita House is a car hotel, and the facilities say so. Free car parking, 24H. Security, wheelchair access, laundry, dry cleaning, housekeeping and cots cover long stays and family trips. A meeting or a conference works here because the banquet, business center and free wifi are all on site. What you cannot do is walk into the centre. The address is 10.35 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Suits drivers and anyone whose day is already planned elsewhere. Does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 28 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 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 Margarita House directly if you want the pool, parking and conference rooms on one site, and factor in the drive from Greater Nairobi. 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 Margarita House?+
It is on Lower Plains Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. The site measures it at 12.1 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 152 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room.
What facilities does Margarita House have?+
A 24 hour front desk, 24H. Security, free wifi, free car parking, business center, banquet space, restaurant, bar service through room service, outdoor pool, kids pool, garden, terrace, picnic area, playground, fitness center, spa and massage. Rooms list bath, shower, towels, toiletries, safe, desk, TV, minibar and iron and board.
Can I walk from Margarita House into central Nairobi?+
It is not a walk you would choose. The nearest quarter this site covers is Upper Hill and Community at 10.35 km, and the centre is further. The area is built for cars, and after dark the pattern is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Plan on driving or a shuttle.
How do I check availability at Margarita House?+
Use the booking link on this page. It goes to app.impt.io, where you pick your dates and room type and see what is open. Non smoking rooms, family rooms, cots and wheelchair accessible rooms are all listed, so say what you need when you book.
