A five star property on the Northern Bypass, outside the centre you came for. The list runs to pools, tennis, a gym and archery, and the location decides everything: this suits you only if you keep a car and treat the CBD as a daytime errand.
01What it is
Glee Nairobi a Preferred LVX Hotel is a five star property on Northern Bypass Rd, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The facility list is long and leisure heavy: an outdoor pool and pool bar, a spa with sauna, steam room, massage and jacuzzi, a fitness centre, a games room, table tennis, karaoke and a night club, plus archery, aerobics and horse back riding. There are bars, a restaurant, room service, a business centre and banquet space, free parking with valet, free wifi, a 24 hour front desk and security, and rooms with air conditioning, bathrobes, minibar and balcony. Where the list is thin is anything tying the place to the quarter: no kitchen, no shuttle described, and no detail on how the grounds meet the bypass road itself.
What that adds up to is a resort style property with a full indoor and outdoor programme, sitting on a transport edge rather than an evening one. Glee Nairobi a Preferred LVX Hotel keeps you on the grounds, and the grounds are the point: eat, swim, train, sleep. The city is an errand from here, not a stroll. It suits you if you are driving, if you want the facilities more than the address, and if a nightclub and a spa in the same compound is what you are after. It does not suit you if you came for the CBD on foot, if you want the halls and streets of the centre at your door, or if you would rather walk out to dinner.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 51 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
Book this one if the facilities matter more to you than the address, because the address is the whole decision. 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 Glee Nairobi a Preferred LVX Hotel?+
It stands on Northern Bypass Rd in Greater Nairobi, not in the Central Business District. The site measures it at 7.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 96 minutes on foot in a direct line. That line is the reason most people arrive and leave by car.
What does the property actually list?+
An outdoor pool and pool bar, a spa with sauna, steam room, massage and jacuzzi, a fitness centre, a garden, games room, table tennis and karaoke, plus archery, aerobics and horse back riding. There is a restaurant, bars, a night club, room service, free parking, free wifi and a 24 hour front desk.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The site puts Glee Nairobi 6.83 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street there is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property carries a score of 4.5 out of 5 from 683 reviews. Read that as sustained satisfaction from a large number of past stays, not as a verdict on the location. Guests who want the centre on foot are marking a different thing from guests who want the pool, spa and gym.
