A 4 star out on the Eastern Bypass at Utawala, with two pools, a night club, a sauna and free parking. The thing that decides it is the road: this is a place you reach by car, and the centre is a long way off. If your Nairobi is the CBD on foot, look elsewhere.
01What it is
TrippleO's Hotel lists the full spread of a 4 star out of town: an outdoor pool, a kids pool, a sauna, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area and a night club. There is a restaurant and a bar, a 24 hour front desk, free wifi and free car parking, plus dry cleaning, a safe and a smoking area. One listed item is a surcharge, which tells you some things sit outside what you have already paid for. What the list never says is where the pools are, how big the garden is, or whether the night club is quiet on a weekday.
What that adds up to for you is a property geared to arriving with a vehicle and staying put on the grounds. The facilities are leisure facilities, and the location is Greater Nairobi, not the centre. TrippleO's Hotel works if you want the pools, the parking and the night club under one roof and are not here to walk the city. It does not work if your day is Kenyatta Avenue and the markets: it is 15.65 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 196 minutes on foot in a direct line.
02The supplier's photographs
0316 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 Muthurwa and the east markets, 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 Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book TrippleO's Hotel if you want the Eastern Bypass location and the leisure facilities listed, and book it knowing the centre is not on foot from here. 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 TrippleO's Hotel?+
It is on Utawala along the Eastern Bypass, in Greater Nairobi rather than the Central Business District. The nearest quarter this site covers is Muthurwa and the east markets, 14.47 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel list in the way of facilities?+
An outdoor pool, a kids pool, a sauna, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area and a night club, plus a restaurant, a bar, free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, dry cleaning, a safe and a smoking area. One listed item is a surcharge.
Can I stay here and walk into the city centre?+
No. This is not a centre hotel. It sits out on the Eastern Bypass at Utawala, and the distances are car distances. If your days are the CBD and the markets, staying this far out means every trip in and back is a drive, and evenings here are not the point.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.2 out of 5 from 2058 reviews. Read that as a solid, settled property that a lot of people have used and rated reasonably, not as a small place with a handful of opinions. The score says nothing about how far it is from the centre.
