A 4 star conference hotel on Argwings Kodhek Road in Hurlingham, 3.32 km from the centre. It suits people whose day is a meeting, a gym and a bed, and it does not suit anyone hoping to step out of the lobby into the city.
01What it is
Four Points By Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham is a 4 star property on Argwings Kodhek Road in Hurlingham. The facilities list is built around work and conferences: a business center, banquet space, a 24 hour front desk, express check in, concierge, currency exchange, car rental, free wifi and free car parking. There is a restaurant, bars, a lounge, a night club and a terrace, plus room service and breakfast in room. For rest and recovery it lists an outdoor pool, a gymnasium, a fitness center, a spa and a jacuzzi. The list is thinner on the practical detail of the rooms themselves. Beyond air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a bath or shower, a TV and toiletries, it says very little about size, outlook or how the floors are arranged. The golf course entry sits oddly against a city hotel.
What that adds up to at Four Points By Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham is a closed, self sufficient stay. You eat, work out, swim and sleep inside the building, and the car stays in the free parking. The street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, so the hotel is the destination rather than the neighbourhood. This suits a business traveller with meetings nearby, a conference group, or anyone who wants the pool, the gym and the spa within the same lift ride. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out to bars, markets and restaurants. After dark the area is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else, so the city centre becomes a deliberate trip rather than a stroll.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 19 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
Four Points By Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham is a conference hotel, so book around your meeting dates rather than on impulse, and check the cancellation terms before you commit. 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 Four Points By Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham?+
It is on Argwings Kodhek Road in Hurlingham, in Greater Nairobi. The address sits 3.32 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 42 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is also 1.78 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel actually list?+
The list is heavy on business and conference needs: a business center, banquet space, a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking and car rental. For leisure it names an outdoor pool, a gymnasium, a fitness center, a spa and a jacuzzi. It also lists a restaurant, bars, a lounge and a night club.
What does it mean that the hotel is in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre?+
It means the hotel is not in the central business district. Getting into the centre is a deliberate trip by car or shuttle rather than a walk out of the lobby, and after dark the surrounding streets are quiet. The trade off is free parking and a building that holds its own restaurant, pool and gym.
What does the guest score of 4.5 out of 5 from 5194 reviews tell me?+
It tells you a large number of previous guests rated the property highly, and that the sample is big enough for the average to mean something. It says nothing about which rooms are best or how the hotel handles a specific request, so treat it as a general signal rather than a guarantee.
