Alkasim is a three star hotel on Uchumi Rd in Greater Nairobi with free car parking, a garden and a terrace, set on a ridge among new concrete. Whether it suits you turns on one thing: you need a car, because this is not a quarter you walk out of.
01What it is
Alkasim is a three star hotel on Uchumi Rd in Greater Nairobi, and the facilities it lists are few: free car parking, a garden and a terrace. The parking is the one that matters most here, because the street it stands on was built for the car and the conference room. The garden and terrace give you somewhere to sit outside the room without leaving the property. Beyond those three, the list is thin. There is no restaurant, bar or gym named in what the property publishes, so plan on eating and drinking elsewhere. The nine photos on file cover the grounds and the building rather than a full set of room types.
What Alkasim adds up to is a simple, quiet place to sleep if you are arriving by car and your day is already mapped out around the ridge. The street is new concrete, built for vehicles and meetings, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That combination suits a driver with business in Greater Nairobi or Upper Hill who wants parking and a garden and no evening scene. Alkasim does not suit anyone without a car, or anyone who wants to step out of the lobby and find the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Alkasim if you are driving in and want the parking and the garden rather than a location you can walk out of. 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 Alkasim?+
Alkasim is on Uchumi Rd in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is 3.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 46 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.82 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Alkasim actually offer on site?+
The property lists free car parking, a garden and a terrace. Those three are the whole of the published list. No restaurant, bar or gym is named, so you should expect to eat and drink off the property. The parking is the facility that most shapes a stay here.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
It is a car journey, not a walk. The property sits well outside the central business district, and after dark the street is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. You will want your own vehicle or a driver arranged for the evening.
What does the guest score mean?+
Alkasim holds 4.7 out of 5 from 265 reviews. That is a strong record across a reasonable number of stays, and it suggests the simple offer of parking, garden and terrace is being delivered consistently. It tells you nothing about the wider neighbourhood, which you should judge separately.
