A four star conference and training property on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built around a car park, meeting rooms and a restaurant. It is 8.94 km from Upper Hill and Community in a direct line, so the deciding question is whether you have a reason to be out here and a vehicle to get here.
01What it is
LIA Hotel & Training Centre lists a full working set: banquet and meeting rooms, a business centre, restaurant, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, a terrace and a library. There is breakfast, dry cleaning, luggage storage and multilingual staff, and the property is wheelchair accessible. The thin part is the everyday: no gym, no pool, no laundry beyond dry cleaning, and nothing on the list that belongs to a leisure stay. Officially four star, arranged for conferences rather than holidays.
For someone booked into a training week here, LIA Hotel & Training Centre is straightforward: you arrive by car, park free, eat on site and work in the meeting rooms. The garden, terrace and library give you somewhere to sit between sessions, and the restaurant removes any need to drive out for dinner. It does not suit anyone hoping to walk into the centre in an evening, and it does not suit a leisure stay at all. Come with a booking or a car, or look nearer the central quarter.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book LIA Hotel & Training Centre only once you have settled how you will get to and from Silanga Road each 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 LIA Hotel & Training Centre?+
It is on Silanga Road in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area rather than the central business district. It stands 10.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 136 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room.
What facilities does the hotel have?+
It lists a restaurant, breakfast, a banquet room, a meeting room, a business centre, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, a terrace, a library, luggage storage, dry cleaning and multilingual staff, and it is wheelchair accessible. The emphasis is on conferences and training rather than leisure.
How do I get into the centre from the hotel?+
By car. It is 8.94 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so this is not a walk-in location. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride needed to go anywhere else. Free parking is listed on site.
What does the guest score mean?+
It scores 4.7 out of 5 from 49 reviews, so the people who have stayed tend to rate it highly. The count is small enough that you should read it as a signal rather than a settled verdict, and the property is four star, which fits its conference and training role.
