A four star hotel out in Runda, in Kiambu rather than the centre, with a pool, a spa and grounds, and free parking that makes the distance workable. Book it if you will have a car every day. Skip it if you want to step out of a lobby into the city.
01What it is
The Dove Hotel Nairobi lists the full spread: restaurant and bar, breakfast, coffee, free wifi, a business centre, a health club, a spa, an indoor pool and an outdoor swimming pool, a garden, a terrace and a library, with lifts and free car parking. Between one and fifty rooms. The list is thin in one place that matters here: nothing is said about how you reach the centre without a car, and nothing is said about the road in.
What that adds up to is a self contained property on the Runda side, the kind of place where the day happens inside the walls: swim, eat, work, sleep. The Dove Hotel Nairobi is for someone with a car, or with business in the northern suburbs, who wants grounds and quiet rather than the Central Business District at the door. The Elia Zagoritis address and the market that starts before the light do not make an evening out of it, so if you want the city on foot, this is the wrong side of town.
02The supplier's photographs
0318 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. 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 street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one only once you have decided the car question, because the address decides your days more than the room does. 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 The Dove Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Elia Zagoritis in the Runda area, in Kiambu rather than in Nairobi's Central Business District. The street address puts it on the northern side of the city, in Greater Nairobi, so plan around the address rather than around the centre when you book.
What does the hotel have on site?+
A restaurant and bar, breakfast, coffee, free wifi, a business centre, a health club, a spa, an indoor pool and a swimming pool, a garden, a terrace, a library, lifts and free car parking. Between one and fifty rooms, so it stays small.
How far is it from the Central Business District?+
The Dove Hotel Nairobi is 8.28 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 9.03 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 113 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat both as car journeys.
How do I check whether rooms are free?+
Availability is shown through the booking link on this page, which reflects what the property has open at the time you look. Because The Dove Hotel Nairobi keeps somewhere between one and fifty rooms, dates around local events in the northern suburbs are worth checking early.
