A 3 star hotel on Plums Lane in Greater Nairobi, with parking, wifi, a bar and a restaurant on site. 2.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue. The distance and the after dark quiet decide it: comfortable if you have a car, ordinary for a walking break.
01What it is
Parklands Villa Hotel lists the working core plainly: 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, business center, restaurant, bar, lounge, terrace, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, free newspaper, smoking area. There is wheelchair access. Two things stand out for a Nairobi stay: the desk is staffed around the clock and you can leave the car without paying to park it. The list is thin on the things a leisure guest might expect. No pool, no gym, no airport transfer, no shuttle, and nothing that tells you how to fill a day beyond the bar and the terrace. Surcharge appears as a facility, which is the vaguest entry on it.
For someone staying here, Parklands Villa Hotel works out as a place to sleep and do business rather than a place to spend an afternoon. The surcharge entry and the thin facility list are the honest limits. It suits drivers, people with meetings on this side, and anyone who wants the desk to be awake when they arrive late. It does not suit anyone planning to walk to the sights, or expecting the centre to be lively after dark. The area is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0317 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Parklands Villa Hotel if the room is a base rather than the point of the trip. 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 Parklands Villa Hotel?+
It is in Greater Nairobi on Plums Lane, not inside the central business district. The city end of Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 2.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. That gap is the main thing to weigh before booking.
What facilities does it actually have?+
Parklands Villa Hotel lists a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business center, restaurant, bar, lounge, terrace, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a free newspaper and a smoking area. There is wheelchair access. There is no pool, no gym and no airport transfer.
What is around the hotel?+
Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, is 1.63 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The streets there are narrow and shaded. Take a car: the quarter is a daytime one and the halls shut in the late afternoon.
What does the guest score mean?+
Parklands Villa Hotel holds 3.9 out of 5 from 164 reviews. That is a solid rather than glowing record: satisfied on the basics, not remarkable on much else. Treat it as a dependable base and you will not be surprised, whether you drive here or not.
