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User Reviews of Nairobi National Park (106 Reviews)

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Average User Rating

4.1509 / 5 4.2 /5
4.3077 / 5 3.8544 / 5 3.4348 / 5 4.0128 / 5

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4 star 34 / 10 34
3 star 20 / 10 20
2 star 4 / 10 4
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Avatar icon Sue Green LRPS (suebg1) United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: December 2013 Reviewed: May 26, 2015

Email Sue Green LRPS (suebg1)  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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I would not choose this place as a single destination

Female avatar icon aabangasser Ivory Coast flag CI       Visited: March 2014 Reviewed: May 6, 2015

35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Great half-day trip from Nairobi

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 3 / 5
I went to the park without expecting to see the Big Five, but hoping to have a nice, short, manageable experience in the outdoors on my first trip to Africa. My hotel organized a guide for me, but I only had the afternoon available, which isn't usually ideal. My guide was not terribly knowledgeable about the birds, but he was very good at finding the animals, and we saw all kinds of things. It started slowly, with glimpses of some hippos in a pond (so he said, I wouldn't swear to it), then some giraffe, then ostriches, several different types of gazelle (some quite close), zebra, wildebeest and warthogs, secretary bird, white-eyed eagle (?), a couple of Black Rhino ambling under the acacia trees, and finally, as the grand finale, an adult male lion sitting just beside the road watching the zebras, and eventually crossing just in front of the jeep.
By all accounts this was a pretty exceptional day at the park, but even without the rhino and the lion, it was a beautiful
Read more spot, especially in the evening, and a really delightful way to spend a free afternoon in Nairobi. Definitely exceeded my expectations.
Male avatar icon aaroy Kenya flag KE       Visited: May 2015 Reviewed: May 6, 2015

20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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Very versatile wildlife including lions, rhinos, all sorts of antilopes etc. You have to be very lucky to spot a cheetah or leopard. Extremely easily accessible from Nairobi but can be rather busy on weekends.

Male avatar icon Torodd Norway flag NO       Visited: March 2013 Reviewed: Apr 29, 2015

20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Skyscrapers and lions side by side

4 / 5 4 /5
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Nairobi National Park is a nice park. Here you get the opportunity to see wildlife in the bush, accompanied by tall buildings and city landscape.

The park is a very good park for viewing lions. It is also a sanctuary for endangered rihnos, so the chances are pretty high for spotting rihnos. It also offers a wide range of landscapes, with forest, plains, river and a small lake.

To walk on the paths with a KWS-guard to look for crocodiles and hippos in the river is reccomended.

The park also has an advantage with not beeing to big. It is a nice park to drive by yourself, without a safariguide.

Highly reccomended park to visit!

Male avatar icon dorneyphoto United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: October 2014 Reviewed: Apr 22, 2015

50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Miles better than airport hotel

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 3 / 5 2 / 5 5 / 5

We arrived here at the lodge 90 minutes after landing with dinner waiting at 2300. Next morning at 0600 we were on our first game drive. The ranger was excellent and vechicles comfortable. In 2 drives and a walk we saw 51 birds and 17 mammals including lion with the city as a back drop!!!!

The lodge was comfortable and the food was excellent

Great way to start a trip

Male avatar icon Felix Kamami Charles Kenya flag KE       Visited: February 2015 Reviewed: Apr 17, 2015

Email Felix Kamami Charles  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Beautiful

4 / 5 4 /5
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Nairobi National Park is the perfect destination for Nairobi residents and tourists who dont want to travel far from the capital city to see wildlife. the weather was perfect during my day of visit. and from the look of the scenery it seemed like its mostly like that. (calm weather.) we saw a variety of wildlife including lions which was my main wildlife i was eager to see. Overall rating, i would give Nairobi National park a 6.

Male avatar icon Ian Macfadyen United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: September 2010 Reviewed: Apr 30, 2012

50-65 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5
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I love Nairobi N.P. and believe it's under-rated and generally under-valued. It's a shame it isn't given a higher priority by the Kenyan authorities, it could be so much better if there was greater control over the shambas which have been allowed to proliferate at the southern end of the game corridor, by which animals enter and leave the park.

Female avatar icon joyandtony United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: October 2007 Reviewed: Apr 7, 2012

Email joyandtony  |  50-65 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5
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We fed the giraffe from a feeding platform in Nairobi national park, it was a memorable experience

Male avatar icon navrajghataura Visited: March 2008 Reviewed: Apr 2, 2012

35-50 years of age

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5

Great park in a city. Very short ride for Nairobi residents with good wildlife. No Elephants. You can view the city skyline from within the park

Female avatar icon Flaminia Italy flag IT       Visited: June 2026 Reviewed: Jun 5, 2026

Email Flaminia  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

5 / 5 5 /5
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The one and only park in a city capital.