A three star hotel on Latema Road, inside the loudest part of the CBD. The front desk runs around the clock and the wifi and parking are free, which is the whole case for it. If you need quiet after dark, this is the wrong end of Moi Avenue.
01What it is
Midview Hotel Nairobi lists the basics a city hotel needs and little more. Free wifi, free car parking and a free newspaper cover the desk end of things. Breakfast and a buffet are available, there is a bar downstairs, and the 24 hour front desk takes arrivals whenever you land. Business travelers get a business center and a meeting room, and there is laundry, dry cleaning and luggage storage if you are staying more than a night. The list is thin on anything beyond function: no pool, no gym, no airport transfer, nothing for a day you do not want to leave the building.
For someone in Nairobi to work, Midview Hotel Nairobi does the job. You can park the car for nothing, work from the room or the business center, and eat breakfast without going out. The trade is the setting. Latema Road sits inside the loudest, fullest pavements in Kenya: hawkers, phone shops, preachers, and a bus every few seconds. That is fine by day and thin at night. Book it if you want a downtown base and a car to move around in. Do not book it if you want an evening on foot or a quiet room, because you will spend the night travelling for it.
02The supplier's photographs
0312 facilities the supplier lists
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
Book this one directly if you want a downtown base with a car park and no breakfast hunt in the morning. 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 exactly is Midview Hotel Nairobi?+
On Latema Road in the Nairobi CBD, 0.1 km from the centre of Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street. That puts it inside the main shopping and transport stretch of the city, close to the matatu and bus traffic on those two roads.
What facilities does the hotel actually have?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, breakfast and a buffet, a bar, a business center, a meeting room, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage and a free newspaper. It is a working hotel rather than a resort, so there is nothing beyond those.
Is the area around Latema Road safe at night?+
Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street thin out fast after the commute and are better avoided late. Take a car after dark. The hotel itself has a front desk staffed around the clock, so arriving by vehicle is straightforward.
What does the guest score of 3.9 out of 5 mean?+
It is the average from 104 reviews, so it reflects a mixed but generally positive set of stays rather than a uniform one. Read a few of the reviews before booking if you want to know which complaints come up.
