A 3 star on United Nations Ave in Greater Nairobi, built around the working day: buffet, bar, free parking, free wifi. The thing that decides it is the drive in, which is 4.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Come by car or not at all.
01What it is
Gigiri Express Hotel lists the basics a business traveller asks for first: free wifi, air conditioning and a fan in the room, a desk, a safe, a refrigerator, a TV and a telephone. There is a restaurant and a buffet, a bar, coffee, room service and a 24 hour front desk with express check in and a concierge. The wider list covers dry cleaning, laundry, iron and board, luggage storage, a market, a barber and beauty salon, and currency exchange. For body rather than admin, there is a sauna, a steam room and a spa.
That is a service hotel rather than a scenery one, and the venue suits someone with a reason to be on this side of the city: meetings, an early start, a night at the hotel bar, a car in the free parking. Gigiri Express Hotel keeps the day easy and the evening enclosed. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre. The address is a transport edge, not a quarter, and the drive between you and the middle of Nairobi is the real cost of staying here.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 12 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs. Of those ten quarters, Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest, and it is still a separate place: the northern edge of the grid, where the city loosens and the roads north begin. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is the quarter's own measure, not a walk from your door.
Treat the location as the wider city. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out, and after dark this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge and the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, which makes the quarter best for early markets, and the walk up to the National Museum, if you are already there. Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. You are not.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Gigiri Express Hotel is the straightforward kind of booking: you know the room, you know the drive, and you can cancel if the trip moves. 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 Gigiri Express Hotel?+
It is on United Nations Ave in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district. The site measures it as 5.35 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 67 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the drive from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, is 4.65 km.
What does the hotel have on site?+
Three star facilities: free wifi, air conditioning, a desk, a safe, free parking, a 24 hour front desk, a restaurant, a buffet, a bar, a garden, a sauna, a steam room and a spa. It also lists laundry, dry cleaning, a market, room service, currency exchange and wheelchair access.
Can I walk into central Nairobi from here?+
No, and you should not plan to. The area is a transport edge rather than an evening quarter, and the site's advice is to cross it by car. The hotel lists free parking and car rental, so a vehicle is the intended way to get in and out of the centre.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.1 out of 5 from 294 reviews. That is a solid, unremarkable showing for a 3 star property: guests are satisfied rather than delighted. Read it as reliable for the level and check recent comments for anything specific to your dates, since the property cannot confirm or deny what past guests wrote.
