A four star hotel on Ngong Lane off Ngong Road, on the new concrete ridge south west of the centre. What decides it for you is the car and the conference room: this is a business address, and you want it for work rather than for walking into town.
01What it is
DoubleTree by Hilton Nairobi is a four star property on Ngong Lane Off Ngong Road, and its list is built around the working day. Twenty four hour front desk and security, a business centre with copy, concierge, express check in, currency exchange, ATM, laundry and dry cleaning, car rental and a shuttle service; air conditioning, desk, safe, iron and board, free wifi. Eating and drinking: restaurant, bars, lounge, breakfast, breakfast in room, lunch, room service, special diets. Leisure: outdoor pool, fitness center, garden, terrace. Rooms run to bath, shower, bathrobe, slippers, toiletries, hairdryer, refrigerator, coffee, TV, telephone, cot and family rooms, non smoking, wheelchair accessible. The thin part is the outside: no grounds beyond the garden and terrace, and nothing on the street to walk out to.
For someone staying at DoubleTree by Hilton Nairobi, the list adds up to a self contained working hotel: you arrive, you park free, you eat and sleep and swim on site, and you take a car when you want to be anywhere else. The 4.5 out of 5 from 2787 reviews says the delivery is consistent and the place is well used. It suits the conference delegate, the business traveller on the Ngong Road corridor, and the family who wants a pool and a cot and a room big enough. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the city: this is the ridge, built for the car and the conference room.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 25 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 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 this one direct if your trip is built around meetings on the Ngong Road ridge, because the value here is the whole package rather than the room alone. 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 DoubleTree by Hilton Nairobi?+
On Ngong Lane Off Ngong Road, on the ridge south west of the centre, in Greater Nairobi. It is 4.7 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 59 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.99 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
Restaurant, bars, lounge, room service and breakfast, an outdoor pool, fitness center, garden and terrace, a business centre, free wifi and free car parking, twenty four hour front desk and security, laundry, currency exchange and ATM. Rooms have air conditioning, safe, bath or shower, bathrobe, slippers, refrigerator and coffee.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
You can, and the site gives the line as 59 minutes on foot in a direct line from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 4.7 km away. In practice this is a car address on new concrete, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
What does the 4.5 out of 5 guest score tell me?+
It is a strong score from a large base, 2787 reviews, so it reflects how the hotel performs night after night rather than one good stay. Take it as evidence that the facilities listed are delivered as listed, which matters most when you are booking a working hotel sight unseen.
