A three star hotel on Cedar Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre and set up for people with their own transport. The list is heavy on grounds and parking, thin on the room detail you would want before choosing.
01What it is
Prideinn Azure Hotel Nairobi 5 is a three star property on Cedar Road in Greater Nairobi. The facilities list is strongest outdoors and on logistics: an outdoor pool, a terrace, a garden and a jacuzzi, plus free car parking, free wifi and internet access, lifts, wheelchair access, and dry cleaning. That covers the grounds and the practicalities well. What the list does not do is describe the rooms themselves. There is no detail on size, views, bedding or whether the rooms face the garden or the road.
For a stay, Prideinn Azure Hotel Nairobi 5 reads as a hotel built around its own grounds rather than its address. The pool, terrace and garden give you reasons to stay on site in the evening, and the parking makes the drive in and out straightforward. It suits drivers, families and anyone who wants a quiet base at this end of the city. It does not suit a visitor whose trip is the centre itself, because you are not in it, and the quarter you would be coming for is a daytime one.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 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
Booking here is worth doing in advance if you want one of the rooms facing the garden, since the listing gives no room detail to choose from. 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 Prideinn Azure Hotel Nairobi 5?+
It is on Cedar Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It stands 3.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you should plan on a vehicle rather than walking in.
What does the hotel list in the way of facilities?+
An outdoor pool, terrace, garden and jacuzzi, plus free wifi and internet access, free car parking, lifts, wheelchair access and dry cleaning. The list is clear about the grounds and the practical side, and says nothing about the rooms.
Can you walk into the centre from the hotel?+
You can, but it is a long walk and the distances are given in a direct line. The hotel is 2.8 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The centre is a daytime quarter, and the streets empty in the late afternoon.
How do you check availability?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where you can see which rooms can be cancelled free. The site holds no prices, so the booking page is the place to look at what is open for your dates and what the terms are.
