A three star hotel on Rose Avenue in Kilimani, off Argwings Kodhek Road, with parking, a restaurant and a gym, and the centre of Nairobi within reach. Book it if you want a car friendly base in Greater Nairobi; look elsewhere if you want to step out of the door into the centre's streets.
01What it is
The Monarch Hotel lists the full set you would expect of a three star property in Greater Nairobi: air conditioning, free wifi, a restaurant, room service, a 24 hour front desk, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, lifts, luggage storage and free car parking with valet parking. Rooms come with a desk, a refrigerator, a safe, a shower, a WC, towels, sheets and toiletries, and there is a cot for families along with family rooms and wheelchair accessible facilities. The list is thin on the city itself: a terrace, a fitness centre and a banquet room are the only spaces beyond the room.
For a stay, The Monarch Hotel adds up to a practical place for someone arriving by car or on hotel business, with the shuttle service and car rental handling the moving about. It sits in Kilimani in Greater Nairobi, 1.76 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street feel there is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Suits drivers, families and conference goers; not walkers who want the centre on the doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 14 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 are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
The Monarch Hotel is a straightforward booking if you are driving in or here for a conference, and the free cancellation most rooms carry means you can hold a room while your plans settle. 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 Monarch Hotel in Nairobi?+
It is on Rose Avenue, off Argwings Kodhek Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi. It sits 3.41 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.76 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does The Monarch Hotel list?+
The list runs to air conditioning, free wifi, a restaurant, room service, a gym, a banquet room, a terrace, free car parking with valet parking, a 24 hour front desk, laundry and dry cleaning, lifts, a safe and family rooms. Rooms have a desk, refrigerator, shower, WC, towels and toiletries.
Can you walk from The Monarch Hotel into central Nairobi?+
It is possible but not the point of the location. The hotel is in Kilimani, on a ridge built for the car and the conference room, and after dark the area is quiet: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Plan on the shuttle service, the car rental desk or your own car.
What does the guest score of 4.3 mean?+
It is 4.3 out of 5 from 1463 reviews, a solid score for a three star hotel in Greater Nairobi. Read it as a broad signal of a well run property rather than a promise about any single room, and check recent reviews for the things you care about.
