A 4 star hotel off Mombasa Road, far out in Greater Nairobi, with a pool, spa, gym and shuttle on the list. The distance decides it: this suits you if your business is on this road or near the airport side, not if you want the centre.
01What it is
The Curve by the Park is a 4 star property on Mombasa Road, and the facilities it lists are those of a full service hotel: a 24 hour front desk, concierge, luggage storage and lifts, restaurants, bars and a lounge, an outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna and a fitness center, free wifi and free car parking, laundry service, meeting rooms, shops, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. Some entries on that list are thin or ambiguous. Entertainment activities, surcharge and sheets and towels tell you very little, and the spa and sauna are listed without any detail about how they run.
For someone staying here, The Curve by the Park is a large, self contained hotel on a road that moves freight and produce, not people on a city break. The distance is the whole question. It sits 13.43 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 168 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you are not walking into the centre, and you are not walking to dinner. This suits a business traveller with a reason to be on Mombasa Road or passing through toward the airport side, who wants a pool, a gym and a shuttle inside the gates. It does not suit anyone whose days belong to the central business district.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book The Curve by the Park only once you have decided that Mombasa Road, not the centre, is where your day happens. 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 The Curve by the Park?+
It is on Mombasa Road in Greater Nairobi, well outside the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Muthurwa and the east markets, 12.35 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat it as a road side hotel with its own facilities rather than a base for the centre.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
A 24 hour front desk, concierge, luggage storage, lifts, restaurants, bars, a lounge, an outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna, a fitness center, free wifi, free car parking, laundry service, meeting rooms, shops, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. Entertainment activities, surcharge, sheets and towels are also on the list but say little about what you actually get.
Can I walk from the hotel into central Nairobi?+
No. The property sits 13.43 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 168 minutes on foot in a direct line. The road there is one where trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables change hands at 5am, and it is closed, dark and not a place to be after dark. Plan on a vehicle.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page to see which rooms are open for your dates. The hotel keeps a 24 hour front desk and a shuttle service, so once a booking is confirmed you can arrange arrival and transport details with the property directly.
