Mash Park Hotel Nairobi is a four star on Joseph Kangethe Road, out on the ridge in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. Its draw is the pool, the sauna and the gym in a car-first district. If you want to be on foot in the CBD, this is the wrong address.
01What it is
Mash Park Hotel Nairobi lists the full set a four star is expected to carry: a 24 hour front desk, concierge and bell boy, free wifi and free car parking, a restaurant, a bar, a cafe, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a safe, newspapers and a smoking area. For work it adds a business centre, a computer room and a meeting room. For rest there is an outdoor pool, a kids pool, a health club and a sauna. The list is thin on nothing much, though the pool entry sits outside and the site notes a surcharge among the facilities, so ask what that covers when you book.
What that adds up to for Mash Park Hotel Nairobi is a place built around a car and a schedule: you arrive, you park, you swim or sit in the sauna, you eat in the building, and you leave again for whatever brought you. The ridge around it is new concrete and conference rooms, not street life. It suits a business stay in Greater Nairobi, or a family that wants the pool and the parking. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the centre, because the centre is not walkable from here.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Mash Park Hotel Nairobi if your trip is car-based and you want the pool and the gym on site rather than a location in the middle of things. 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 Mash Park Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Joseph Kangethe Road in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge south of the centre. The site measures it at 5.82 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 73 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 4.16 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does Mash Park Hotel Nairobi have?+
The four star list covers an outdoor pool, a kids pool, a health club and a sauna, plus a restaurant, a bar, a cafe and a 24 hour front desk. For work there is a business centre, a computer room and a meeting room, and parking and wifi are listed as free.
Can you walk from Mash Park Hotel Nairobi into the centre?+
Not usefully. The property sits 4.16 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the street around it is new concrete built for the car and the conference room. After dark the pattern is hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score for Mash Park Hotel Nairobi mean?+
It holds a score of 4.2 out of 5 from 1209 reviews. That is a solid four star showing across a large number of stays, enough to tell you the basics hold up, but not so high that you should expect the place to be exceptional.
