A 3 star hotel on Limuru Road, on the Ngara side of the centre. Free parking, wifi and a restaurant decide it: this is a place for people with a car and a reason to be out early, not for anyone wanting the evening on the doorstep.
01What it is
Hennessis Hotel lists the practical things first. Free wifi, free car parking, a restaurant, bars and a bar and snack cafe, lifts, a safe, an ATM, dry cleaning, babysitting, wedding services, a meeting room and wheelchair access, with a surcharge noted on the list. That is a working hotel rather than a polished one: somewhere to leave a car, eat on site and get a document signed, with the wedding and meeting side doing real work. The list is thin on the leisure end. Horse back riding is the only activity named, and it is not something you arrange from a Limuru Road lobby without transport.
For a stay here what that adds up to is simple logistics. Hennessis Hotel sits 0.72 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, and 1.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 18 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street there is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, best crossed by car. Book it if you are driving, working nearby or leaving early. Do not book it if you want to step out to dinner.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Ngara and the Globe
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the CBD, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does: that is the street feel here, and it holds all day. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line. Early markets and the walk up to the National Museum are what this quarter is best for.
After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The halls and market stalls shut, and the roundabout turns into a place you pass through, not a place you linger. This suits you if you want the fruit market at first light or a base on the northern side of the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on foot, and it does not suit a trip built around being out after dark.
Read the whole of Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Hennessis Hotel for the parking and the location on the Ngara side, and treat the room as somewhere to sleep rather than somewhere to spend the day. 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 Hennessis Hotel?+
On Limuru Road in Nairobi, on the Ngara side of the city. It is 0.72 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe. The area is a transport edge, with a flyover, a roundabout and a market that opens early, so getting in and out is usually done by car.
What does Hennessis Hotel list for guests?+
Free wifi and free car parking, a restaurant, bars, a bar and snack cafe, lifts, a safe, an ATM, dry cleaning, babysitting, wedding services, a meeting room and wheelchair access. The list is practical rather than leisure led, and a surcharge is noted on it.
Can you walk from Hennessis Hotel into the centre?+
The hotel is 1.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 18 minutes on foot in a direct line. The route crosses a flyover and a roundabout, and after dark the area is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so a car is the plainer choice.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average of 1679 reviews, so it reflects a broad spread of stays rather than a handful. Read it as a solid working hotel: good enough to return to for the parking and the location, without claiming to be anything grander.
