A three star on Mbaazi Avenue in Lavington: a ridge address built around the car, with an outdoor pool, a garden, free parking and little else on the list. Book it if you are driving to meetings and sleeping outside the centre; skip it if you want the CBD around you.
01What it is
Geomara Penthouse Glade is a three star property on Mbaazi Avenue in Lavington, in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are simple: free car parking, an outdoor pool, a garden, a smoking area, laundry service and luggage storage. The pool and the garden are the parts a visitor would actually use, and free parking is the thing that makes the address work at all. Laundry and luggage storage are quiet conveniences you will be glad of. The list is thin on the things that hold a stay together: nothing here is listed for eating, for working, or for getting anywhere without a car.
What that adds up to is a place to sleep on the northern ridge, not a base for the centre. Geomara Penthouse Glade sits 6.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is a drive, not a stroll. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Suits drivers, conference attendees and anyone sleeping outside the CBD. Does not suit a visitor who wants to walk to meetings.
02The supplier's photographs
036 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
Geomara Penthouse Glade is the kind of booking that goes wrong if you treat it like a city centre hotel, so decide first whether a ridge address in Lavington works for your week. 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 Geomara Penthouse Glade?+
It is on Mbaazi Avenue in Lavington, in the part of the city this site calls Greater Nairobi. The nearest of the ten quarters covered here is Upper Hill and Community, 5.32 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, an outdoor pool, a garden, a smoking area, laundry service and luggage storage. That is the whole list. There is nothing listed for eating, working or getting around, so plan those yourself before you commit to the address.
How do I get into the centre from there?+
You drive, or you take a ride. The centre is 6.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street itself is built for the car, and after dark the area is safe and dull, so treat every trip out as a vehicle trip.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page. It shows which rooms are open for your dates and lets you cancel free on most of them. You can see what is left before you commit, and the CO2 and credit terms apply to every confirmed booking.
