A three star hotel in Greater Nairobi with a pool, a health club and free parking, and a guest score of 4.4 out of 5 from 450 reviews. It sits well outside the centre, so it suits you if you have a car and want quiet; it does not suit anyone planning to walk to the shops.
01What it is
Kitisuru Manor lists a broad and largely leisure-facing set of facilities: an outdoor pool with a kids pool, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area and a spa, alongside a health club. For eating and drinking it lists a bar, a cafe, breakfast and a snack bar, and for practical needs a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a business centre, a meeting room, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, a concierge and a free newspaper. The list is thin on the specifics that matter most: it names no room types, no in room amenities beyond a TV, and the entry for a surcharge is not explained, so you cannot tell from the list what costs extra. There is a smoking area and the property is marked wheelchair accessible, but the list says nothing about how many rooms are adapted or where they sit.
What Kitisuru Manor adds up to is a quiet, self-contained place to sleep in Greater Nairobi, with enough on site that you need not leave it in the evening: a pool, a health club, a spa, somewhere to eat and somewhere to drink. The one thing that decides whether it is right for you is the location. It is 6.84 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 86 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a long way from the centre, and with free parking it reads as a place for someone arriving by car or with a driver. It suits families, business travellers with their own transport, and anyone who wants quiet over proximity. It does not suit you if you plan to walk to the centre for meetings, meals or the shops.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Kitisuru Manor through this site and you keep the free cancellation rather than paying the hotel direct. 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 Kitisuru Manor?+
It is on Kitisuru Road in the Kitisuru Estate, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Biashara Street and City Market, 6.29 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
The listed facilities include an outdoor pool with a kids pool, a health club, a spa, a garden, a terrace and a picnic area, plus a bar, a cafe, breakfast, free wifi, free car parking, a business centre, a meeting room and a 24 hour front desk. The list gives no room types and no detail on what the surcharge covers.
How do you get into the centre from here?+
The centre is not within walking range. Biashara Street and City Market is 6.29 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is further again. Free car parking and the position on Kitisuru Road suggest a car or a driver rather than a walk.
What does the guest score tell you?+
Kitisuru Manor scores 4.4 out of 5 from 450 reviews, which is a solid score over a large number of stays and suggests the property generally does what it says. It is a three star hotel, so expect a plain, functional standard rather than anything luxurious, and read the score as consistency rather than polish.
