A three star block on General Waruingi Street with a fitness centre, spa and business rooms, sitting close to the markets. Whether it suits you turns on one thing: Muthurwa is a mornings-only quarter, so book here if your Nairobi days start early and finish by dark.
01What it is
Urban Point Hotel is a three star property on General Waruingi Street with a long facilities list for its class. It runs a 24 hour front desk, lifts, luggage storage, concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, and free car parking. There is free wifi, a business centre and a meeting room. Food and drink cover a restaurant, a cafe, a bar with snacks, breakfast and a buffet. For fitness and unwinding there is a fitness centre, a health club, a spa and a terrace. Wheelchair access is listed.
Urban Point Hotel lands as a workable, functional base rather than anything more. The room you would notice is the business one: desk space, meeting room, reliable wifi. The list is thinner on the softer side: no pool, no garden, no airport transfer, no family rooms. Suits a business traveller with meetings in the CBD or around Muthurwa, and anyone who wants their own parking and a gym. Does not suit a leisure stay built on evenings out, or anyone who wants the tourist Nairobi of museums and long lunches.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Muthurwa and the east markets
You are staying in Muthurwa and the east markets, on the eastern edge of the grid. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am: this is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land. It feeds the rest of the grid and is the last piece of the CBD most visitors would recognise as part of it, and the quarter sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line.
The wholesale trade, the bus termini and the before-dawn start are the whole character of the place. It is best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it, and for nothing else. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only, and if you want an evening out, this is the wrong quarter to base yourself in.
Read the whole of Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Urban Point Hotel if your Nairobi business sits in the CBD or the east markets and you want a straightforward block with parking, a gym and a desk. 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 Urban Point Hotel?+
On General Waruingi Street in Nairobi, in the Muthurwa and the east markets area. It sits 1.39 km from the centre of Muthurwa and the east markets and 2.39 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 30 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts the CBD within a reasonable walk and the market district on the doorstep.
What does the hotel actually have?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi and free car parking, a business centre, a meeting room, a restaurant, a cafe, a bar, breakfast, a buffet, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a fitness centre, a health club, a spa, a terrace, lifts and wheelchair access. It is a three star list, broad but without a pool or an airport transfer.
Can I walk into the centre from the hotel?+
You can. The hotel is 2.39 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 30 minutes on foot in a direct line. Bear in mind the area itself is a daytime quarter: trucks, handcarts and the city's vegetables change hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only.
What does the 4.4 guest score tell me?+
It is a strong score for a three star, drawn from 607 reviews, which is a large enough sample to be worth something. The pattern that fits the property is guests who value location, parking and the front desk, rather than anyone after resort facilities. It tells you the basics are handled. It does not tell you the evenings around the hotel are lively, because they are not.
