The Emory Hotel is a three star property on Kandara Road in Kileleshwa, in Greater Nairobi. It sits well away from the centre, so the decision that matters is whether you want the central business district at your door or a quiet residential base with a car park.
01What it is
The Emory Hotel lists the practical things a business guest would check for: free wifi, a 24 hour front desk with express check in, a business center and a meeting room, plus free car parking. Rooms come with a bathroom, a shower, a TV, towels, slippers, an iron and board, and a safe. There is a restaurant, a cafe, a bar, room service at all hours, laundry and dry cleaning, a concierge, luggage storage and lifts. It also lists a spa, a massage and a terrace. The list is thin on the question of where you actually are: this is a three star hotel in Kileleshwa, a residential part of Greater Nairobi, and nothing in the facilities changes that.
The Emory Hotel works if your trip is not about being in the centre. The car park, the 24 hour desk and the business room suit someone driving in for meetings or stopping over with their own vehicle. The spa, massage and terrace suit a quieter stay rather than a central one. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out into the business district: the hotel is 2.89 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Expect to use a car or a ride for everything in town.
02The supplier's photographs
0332 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
This is the kind of property where you want your booking confirmed before you arrange anything around it, because the appeal is the car park and the quiet, and neither works if you arrive without a room. 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 Emory Hotel?+
The Emory Hotel is on Kandara Road, off Gichugu Road, in Kileleshwa, in Greater Nairobi. It is 3.52 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 44 minutes on foot in a direct line, so it is a residential base rather than a central one.
What does The Emory Hotel have for business guests?+
The hotel lists a business center, a meeting room, free wifi, a 24 hour front desk with express check in, a restaurant, a cafe and a bar. Rooms have a bathroom, a shower, a TV, towels, slippers, an iron and board, and a safe. There is also free car parking.
What is it like getting into the centre from this hotel?+
You are not in the centre. The Emory Hotel is 2.89 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That quarter is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on a car or a ride.
What does the guest score mean here?+
It means very little on its own. The Emory Hotel has a guest score of 4.5 out of 5, but that comes from only 4 reviews, which is too few to tell you much. Treat it as a small, positive signal and decide on the location and the facilities instead.
