A three star training centre hotel off Langata Road, in the new concrete on the ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It suits a working stay with parking and a restaurant on site, and it does not suit anyone who wants to be in the centre on foot.
01What it is
Lia Hotel & Training Centre lists the ordinary machinery of a working Kenyan hotel. Rooms are non smoking, with a bathroom, shower, towels, toiletries and slippers, plus a desk, a TV, a mini fridge, a safe and a sofa bed. Coffee, housekeeping, laundry service, room service and a wake up service cover the day to day. Downstairs there is a lounge, a terrace, a restaurant, luggage room, parking and 24 hour security, and a shuttle service is listed. The thin parts are the ones that decide a stay: no gym, no pool, no bar named in the list, and a training centre's rooms are not the point of the building.
What that adds up to at Lia Hotel & Training Centre is a quiet, car dependent, mildly institutional stay. You get your own parking, a restaurant, security around the clock and a room that covers the basics without decoration, and the shuttle service matters because there is very little within walking distance. The venue suits a delegate, a contractor or a family group with a vehicle, and anyone who wants a room for the night rather than a scene. It does not suit a leisure visitor who intends to walk into the centre, and it is the wrong choice if a bar, a pool or street life is the reason for the trip.
02The supplier's photographs
0323 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 if your trip is a car borne working stay on the Langata side rather than a central one, and confirm the shuttle before you commit. 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 Life In Abundance, off Silanga Road, off Langata Road, on the ridge in Greater Nairobi. That places it 10.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 137 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually list?+
The list covers a non smoking room with a bathroom, shower, towels, toiletries, slippers, a desk, a TV, a mini fridge, a safe and a sofa bed. On site there is a restaurant, a lounge, a terrace, parking, luggage room, 24 hour security, laundry service, room service, housekeeping and a shuttle service.
What is the area around it like?+
New concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The site's own line is that this is a car first part of Greater Nairobi, so plan on driving or using the shuttle rather than walking out.
How do I check availability and cancel?+
Availability is shown when you look the property up on app.impt.io. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so a booking can be held while your plans settle. The site shows no prices, so treat the listing and your dates as the things to check before you commit.
