A three star conference hotel on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for people arriving by car with a meeting to get to. The garden, the playground and the free parking decide it: this suits you if you are driving in or working nearby, and it does not if you want the Central Business District on foot.
01What it is
Convent International Hotel Nairobi is a three star property on Convent Drive off James Gichuru Road, which puts it in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The list is built around the working day and the function: a business centre, meeting room, banquet space, cafe, restaurant, lounge and terrace, with express check in, a concierge, bell boy, multilingual staff and a 24 hour front desk behind it. Practical items are all there, including free wifi, free car parking and parking, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a safe, a smoking area, wheelchair access and shuttle service. Where it is thin is on the resort side: a garden, picnic area, playground and terrace, but no pool, no gym and nothing resembling a spa.
For a guest, that combination gives you a quiet, functioning place to sleep and work, with the car accommodated and the children given somewhere to run. The after dark note on this area is blunt: safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Convent International Hotel Nairobi is therefore a poor fit if you want to step out of the lobby into restaurants and nightlife, and a good one if your day is booked solid and your evenings are early. It sits 5.57 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 6.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line.
02The supplier's photographs
0326 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
Book Convent International Hotel Nairobi if your trip is built around a car and a schedule rather than around the centre, and plan your evenings around the hotel bar or a ride out. 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 Convent International Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Convent Drive off James Gichuru Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the Central Business District. It stands 5.57 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 6.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the property actually list?+
A business centre, meeting room, banquet space, cafe, restaurant, lounge and terrace, with express check in, concierge, bell boy, multilingual staff and a 24 hour front desk. Also free wifi, free car parking, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, a safe, a smoking area, wheelchair access and shuttle service. There is a garden, picnic area and playground, but no pool and no gym.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
This is Greater Nairobi, so you are not in the Central Business District and you should not plan on walking it. The site puts the hotel 6.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line. Use the car, the shuttle service or a ride.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.3 out of 5 from 756 reviews, which is a solid, consistent record rather than a flawless one across a large number of stays. Read it as a dependable three star conference hotel that does the basics well, not as a luxury address.
