Mooreland Hotel Nairobi is a three star address on Kolobot Road in Parklands. It covers the practical side well, from parking to laundry, and its position suits you only if you intend to cross this transport edge by car rather than on foot after dark.
01What it is
Mooreland Hotel Nairobi lists the things a working stay actually uses: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and a concierge. There is a cafe and a bar on site, a smoking area, and the property is wheelchair accessible. The list is thin in the ways a leisure visitor notices: no pool, no gym, no restaurant beyond the cafe, and nothing about airport transfers or room service.
Taken together, Mooreland Hotel Nairobi reads as a functional three star base rather than a destination in itself. The free parking and 24 hour desk matter here because the street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. That makes it suit drivers and business travellers with their own transport, and suit anyone hoping to walk out to dinner or spend an evening on the street less well.
02The supplier's photographs
0312 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Ngara and the Globe
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the CBD, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does: that is the street feel here, and it holds all day. 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 quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line. Early markets and the walk up to the National Museum are what this quarter is best for.
After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The halls and market stalls shut, and the roundabout turns into a place you pass through, not a place you linger. This suits you if you want the fruit market at first light or a base on the northern side of the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on foot, and it does not suit a trip built around being out after dark.
Read the whole of Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Mooreland Hotel Nairobi if you want free parking, a 24 hour desk and an address on the northern side of the centre. 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 Mooreland Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Kolobot Road in Parklands, on the Ngara and the Globe side of the city, 0.72 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, the point the site measures from, sits 1.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 18 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel actually provide?+
The listed facilities cover a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a cafe, a bar, a concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a smoking area and wheelchair access. There is no pool, no gym and no full restaurant, so plan meals around the cafe and the surrounding area.
Can I walk into the centre from Ngara and the Globe?+
The area is described as a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's own advice is to cross it by car. Treat the hotel as a car based base rather than a walking one.
What does the guest score of 3.8 mean?+
It is 3.8 out of 5 from 227 reviews, which points to a solid, unremarkable three star performance rather than an exceptional one. Read it as competent on the basics, with the expectation that nothing here will surprise you in either direction. It is a reasonable signal for a functional stay.
