A three star property on Othaya Road in Greater Nairobi, built for people arriving by car. The list covers parking, a pool, a gym, a business center and accessible access. Whether you take it depends on how much you need to be on foot in the centre.
01What it is
Benedictions Homes is a three star property on Othaya Road in Greater Nairobi, and its list reads like a working hotel: a business center, a fitness center, a lounge, lifts, laundry service, an outdoor pool and free car parking, with wheelchair accessible access and a shuttle service. Parking is listed twice, once as free car parking and once as parking, which tells you what the place is arranged around. The list is thin on the things you might ask about next: nothing about dining, nothing about room types, and nothing about a bar beyond the after-dark note for the area.
What that adds up to at Benedictions Homes is a base for someone whose day runs on four wheels. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and it sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre: 5.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 65 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.99 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Come here if you want parking, a pool and a gym on site and you are happy to take a ride for everything else. Do not come here if you want to step out of the door into the Central Business District, or if you want the evening to offer more than a hotel bar. After dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0310 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 of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Booking Benedictions Homes is worth doing ahead if your dates are fixed, because the site lists no rates and no room types to compare at a glance. 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 Benedictions Homes?+
It is at 36 Othaya Rd in Greater Nairobi, on new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not in the Central Business District: the address sits outside the centre, in the part of the city this site treats as Greater Nairobi rather than as one of its ten quarters.
What does the property actually have on site?+
The listed facilities are a business center, a fitness center, free car parking, laundry service, lifts, a lounge, an outdoor pool, parking, a shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access. That is the whole of what is on file. Nothing is listed for dining or for a bar as such.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
You are outside the Central Business District, so plan on a ride rather than a walk. The listed distances put it 5.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 65 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.99 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do I check whether a room is free for my dates?+
Use the booking link for Benedictions Homes and put in your dates to see what is open. The site holds twelve photos of the property and the facility list above, and nothing else: there are no rates shown here to compare, and no room types on file, so availability has to come from the booking page itself.
