A three star lodge and resort on Magadi Lodge Road in Acacia Estate, Greater Nairobi, built for the car and the conference room. What decides it is distance: 13.07 km from Upper Hill and Community, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Suits drivers and families who want parking and a garden, not a walkable city base.
01What it is
The Old Kings Lodge and Resort lists the full working set: a twenty four hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, a business center and a meeting room. There is a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, a terrace, a garden, a picnic area and a playground. Dry cleaning runs, wedding services are offered, and a shuttle service exists, so you can move without driving yourself. Two honest gaps: no pool or gym appears on the list, and the setting is a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is a three star property, so expect the list above and not more.
Staying at The Old Kings Lodge and Resort means a quiet, enclosed patch of Greater Nairobi where the car is the plan. The garden, the playground and the picnic area make it work for families, and the meeting room and business center make it work for a small work trip. At night the local verdict is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want to step out of a lobby into the centre of the city, this is wrong. If you want parking, green space and a calm base away from the middle, it is right.
02The supplier's photographs
0319 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 Upper Hill and Community, 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 Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book The Old Kings Lodge and Resort when you want a car based, garden style stay in Greater Nairobi rather than a central one. 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 Old Kings Lodge and Resort?+
It sits on Magadi Lodge Road in Acacia Estate, in Greater Nairobi. The site measures it at 14.76 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 185 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 13.07 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually list?+
A twenty four hour front desk, bars, breakfast, a business center, dry cleaning, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, luggage storage, a meeting room, newspapers, a picnic area, a playground, restaurants, a shuttle service, a smoking area, a terrace and wedding services, plus surcharge items. No pool or gym is listed.
What is getting into the centre from here like?+
This is Greater Nairobi, not the Central Business District. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Upper Hill and Community, at 13.07 km, and Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 14.76 km away, or 185 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a ride or your own car.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property holds 4.4 out of 5 from 2987 reviews. That is a solid, widely reviewed three star result rather than a standout one. Treat it as a signal that the listed basics, such as the front desk, parking and breakfast, generally work, not as a promise of anything beyond the list.
