Light Villas is a 3 star property on Gigiri Gardens in Greater Nairobi, well north of the centre, with a full facility list and parking. It suits you if you have a car or a driver, and it does not suit anyone planning to walk to the centre.
01What it is
Light Villas lists a broad, convention-style set of facilities: air conditioning, non smoking rooms, family rooms, free wifi, free car parking, 24 Hour Front Desk and 24H. Security, a business center with copy service, banquet space, restaurant and bars, room service, a lounge, laundry service, a safe, a fitness center, a spa, a jacuzzi, a pool bar and shuttle service. The list is thin on detail rather than on breadth: no room types, no figures for capacity, no indication of how the restaurant, bars and banquet space sit together.
What that adds up to is a self-contained property aimed at people who arrive by vehicle and stay on site. With a car or a driver, Light Villas works as a base in Greater Nairobi for business travel and for families using the family rooms. Without one, the location decides against it: this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits car-borne stays and it does not suit anyone wanting the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0328 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs. Of those ten quarters, Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest, and it is still a separate place: the northern edge of the grid, where the city loosens and the roads north begin. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is the quarter's own measure, not a walk from your door.
Treat the location as the wider city. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out, and after dark this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge and the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, which makes the quarter best for early markets, and the walk up to the National Museum, if you are already there. Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. You are not.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Light Villas directly through this site and confirm a room at the property before you make plans around it. 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 Light Villas in Nairobi?+
Light Villas is on Gigiri Gardens in Greater Nairobi, in the north of the city. It sits 5.94 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 75 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 5.23 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Light Villas list in the way of facilities?+
The property lists air conditioning, free wifi and free car parking, a 24 Hour Front Desk, restaurant and bars, room service, a lounge, family rooms, non smoking rooms, a business center, banquet space, a fitness center, a spa and a jacuzzi among other things. It also lists a shuttle service and 24H. Security.
Can you walk into central Nairobi from Light Villas?+
It is 5.23 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the area is a transport edge rather than an evening one. The site's line is to cross it by car. Plan on a vehicle, whether that is the shuttle service or your own.
How do you check availability at Light Villas?+
Availability and room types are confirmed through app.impt.io, where you book and where free cancellation applies to most rooms. The property itself takes enquiries at the 24 Hour Front Desk once you are there, but booking runs through the site.
