A three star boutique hotel on St Timothy Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and built around a long facility list. Its guest score holds at 4 out of 5 from 196 reviews. The distance from town decides it: you need your own vehicle, and you need to be done with the city by dark.
01What it is
Zarita Boutique Hotel lists the ordinary apparatus of a full service three star: a 24 hour front desk, 24H. Security, concierge, luggage storage, express check in, currency exchange and an ATM on site, free wifi and free car parking, valet parking, a garage and a shuttle service. Rooms come air conditioned or with a fan, with desk, safe, TV, iron and board, bathrobe, slippers, toiletries and towels. Food runs across a restaurant, bars, a bar and lounge, a pool bar, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a buffet. There is a garden, terrace, patio, fireplace, games room, lounge, banquet space, chapel, playground and family rooms, plus babysitting, massage, a barber and beauty salon, laundry, dry cleaning and housekeeping. The list is thin on the centre: nothing here is a city hotel service, and the wider facility sheet carries items that have nothing to do with a landlocked Nairobi property.
For someone staying at Zarita Boutique Hotel, that adds up to a self contained compound rather than a base for the Central Business District. You eat, park and sleep on site, and the day's business is a drive away. It suits families with a car, drivers who want parking and quiet, and anyone whose meetings sit in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It does not suit you if your trip is the Central Business District on foot, if you want the evening to continue past the gate, or if you are relying on the street outside. Book it for the compound, not for the city.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 46 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 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 Zarita Boutique Hotel once you have decided your days will be spent in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, because the address is the whole argument for and against it. 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 Zarita Boutique Hotel?+
It sits on St Timothy Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the Central Business District. It is 16.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 208 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the fact that should decide your booking.
What does the hotel have on site?+
A 24 hour front desk, security, concierge, free wifi, free car parking, valet parking and a garage. Rooms have air conditioning, desk, safe, TV, bathrobe and toiletries. There is a restaurant, bars, a pool bar, a garden, terrace, banquet space, chapel and games room.
Can I stay here without a car?+
Not comfortably. The hotel is in Greater Nairobi, and 15.42 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. A shuttle service is listed, but the centre is not on the doorstep. Plan your transport before you commit.
What does the 4 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average of 196 reviews, so it reflects a settled pattern rather than one loud complaint or one rave. For a three star property it reads as competent and consistent. Read the detail behind the number before you decide it fits your trip.
