The Ivory Hotel sits on Mpaka Road in Greater Nairobi, on the transport edge of the centre. What decides it is the kitchen in the room and the car: if you are driving or staying a while, it works, and if you want to walk to the centre in the evening, it does not.
01What it is
The Ivory Hotel is a 3 star property on Mpaka Road with a long, practical list. Rooms come with air conditioning, carpeting, a desk, a TV, a telephone, a safe, a shower and a WC, plus a bidet, toiletries, towels, slippers and a wake-up service. Several units add a kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven, refrigerator and coffee, which is unusual at this level. The house offers free wifi, free car parking, room service, laundry, housekeeping, luggage storage, lifts, a restaurant, a barber and beauty salon, banquet space, currency exchange, express check in, family rooms, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, first aid, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. Where the list goes thin is on the ground: no grounds, no pool, no gym, and nothing about the area that makes you want to linger outside after dark.
For the price of a taxi ride you give up the walkability that defines staying in the centre, so decide honestly what you came for. If you are in Nairobi on business by car, or settling in with family for more than a few nights, The Ivory Hotel is the practical answer: cook for yourself, park without a fuss, sleep in air conditioning, and treat the location as a base rather than a destination. If your trip is built around walking out to dinner, meeting people in the centre, or arriving without a vehicle, this is the wrong address. The property is safe and managed, and the street outside is a transport edge rather than an evening one.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 more on the supplier's own record. 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, on the edge of the centre in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the one you are sleeping in. Treat it as a base you travel in and out of: anything in the CBD means a crossing by car rather than a walk from your door.
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the grid, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin, and the Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge. The fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, Museum Hill is the next rise beyond, and 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 after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The quarter itself lies 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book The Ivory Hotel if you want a serviced base with a kitchen and parking rather than a central address. 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 Ivory Hotel?+
It is on Mpaka Road in Greater Nairobi, 3.04 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 39 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 2.56 km from Ngara and the Globe. Treat it as a base you reach by car.
What does The Ivory Hotel list in its rooms?+
Air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a telephone, a safe and a private bathroom with shower, WC, bidet, toiletries and towels. Kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven, refrigerator and coffee appear in the room list, which is unusual for a 3 star property with free parking and free wifi.
How do you get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You do not walk it. The street here runs a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and the evenings belong to transport rather than to people on foot. Cross it by car, and plan your trips into the centre around a vehicle.
What does the guest score mean?+
The Ivory Hotel holds 4.6 out of 5 from 61 reviews. A score from that many guests is a useful signal rather than a guarantee, and it points to a property that does the basics well for people who are driving, working or staying more than a night or two.
