A four star hotel on Kipipiri Road in Ngara, with the front desk staffed around the clock, a business centre, a restaurant and bar, free wifi, and secure parking behind a gate. The location decides it: this is a transport edge of the city, so if you want to walk out to dinner, this is the wrong side of town.
01What it is
Pearl Palace Hotel is a four star property on Kipipiri Road, off Murang'a Road. Its listed facilities cover the working basics: a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi and internet access, a business centre, a restaurant, a bar and snack bar, a lounge, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, lifts, a concierge, express check in, and car rental. Rooms come with a desk, television, telephone, minibar, safe, iron and board, toiletries and towels, and family rooms are available. There is a chapel, banquet space and a playground. The list is thin on leisure: one golf course is named and nothing else, and the bar and restaurant are the only evening options on site.
For a Nairobi stay, Pearl Palace Hotel does the practical things without dressing them up. It sits 1.36 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, a quarter where the day starts early and the halls shut in the late afternoon, and 2.11 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts the central business district within reach on foot in daylight and makes a car the sensible choice after dark, when this edge of the city turns into a place you cross rather than linger in. It suits business travellers, conference delegates and anyone who wants a secure, well staffed base with a room to work in. It does not suit people who want to step out of the lobby into the evening, or who expect a resort.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 24 more on the supplier's own record. 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 direct through the site if you want the room type settled before you arrive, and treat the secure setting as the reason to choose this property over ones closer to 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 Pearl Palace Hotel?+
It is on Kipipiri Road, off Murang'a Road, in the Ngara and the Globe area. That places it 1.36 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, and 2.11 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street has a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does.
What does the hotel list for business travellers?+
A 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi and internet access, a business centre, a restaurant, a bar and snack bar, a lounge, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, lifts, express check in, a concierge, and car rental. Rooms include a desk, safe, telephone and minibar. There is no separate office suite listed.
Can you walk into the city centre from the hotel?+
You can walk it in daylight, using the direct line to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which the site gives as 2.11 km or 27 minutes on foot. After dark this area is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's advice for Ngara is to cross it by car. Use the car rental or shuttle service at night.
What does the guest score of 4 out of 5 from 305 reviews tell you?+
It tells you the hotel meets expectations for most people who stay, across a large number of reviews, and does not stand out as exceptional or poor. Read it as a solid four star address rather than a luxury one, and set your expectations on the practical facilities listed instead.
