A four star suite block on Thika Road, attached to the mall and the market traffic that runs past it. What decides it is the car. You are on a transport edge, not in the centre, and you cross it by car or not at all.
01What it is
HilaHaven suites is a four star property on TRM Thika Road, north east of the centre. The apartment side of the list is real: a kitchen, a microwave, a refrigerator, a sink, a bath and a separate shower, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Rooms are carpeted and non smoking, and there are lifts. On the working side you get free wifi and internet access, a business center, 24 hour security, a safe and smoke detectors. Breakfast is listed. Free car parking comes with a garage and valet parking, and there is a laundry service, a market, a barber and beauty salon, a patio and a terrace. Wheelchair access is listed. The list is thin on leisure: nothing beyond the salon, no pool, no gym, no restaurant named.
What that adds up to is a self contained place to sleep and work, not a place to spend an evening. You park, you cook or you take breakfast in, and you drive. For anyone staying with a car, working on Thika Road or needing a kitchen and a lift, HilaHaven suites covers the practical list and then stops. For anyone who wants to walk to dinner, to the bars of the centre, or to see the city on foot, it does not suit you: this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and you cross it by car.
02The supplier's photographs
0335 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. 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 street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book HilaHaven suites if the drive is part of your day anyway, not if you wanted the centre on foot. 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 HilaHaven suites?+
It is at TRM Thika Road Mall, in Greater Nairobi, north east of the centre. The site puts it at 9.51 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 10.19 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 128 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the property actually list in the rooms?+
A kitchen with a microwave, refrigerator and sink, a bath and a separate shower, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Rooms are carpeted, non smoking, and reached by lift. There is free wifi, internet access, a safe and a smoke detector. The leisure side is thin: no pool, no gym, no restaurant named.
How do you get into the centre from here?+
By car. This is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the neighbourhood note is blunt about it: cross it by car. There is free parking with a garage and valet parking, which is the practical reason to stay on this side if you are driving into the centre or working along Thika Road.
How do I check availability at HilaHaven suites?+
Through app.impt.io. Enter your dates there and the site shows what is open at this property on TRM Thika Road Mall, with the free cancellation terms attached to most rooms. There are no rates shown on this site, so the booking page is where the details sit.
