A 3 star hotel in Greater Nairobi, outside the quarter proper, with a pool, a spa, a gym and a casino under one roof. The decision is simple: if you want to walk out into the centre, this is the wrong side of it; if you have a car, the list holds up.
01What it is
Lighthomez Angles Heights is a 3 star property in Greater Nairobi, and its listed facilities point to a place built around a long stay rather than a night's sleep. There is a 24 hour front desk, lifts, luggage storage, a safe, laundry and dry cleaning, express check out, free car parking and a smoking area. The leisure side is thick: outdoor pool, a second swimming pool entry, spa, health club, fitness center, garden, terrace and lounge. A casino and entertainment activities are listed too. Where the list is thin is on food and drink, where nothing is named, and any facility marked only as surcharge.
For someone staying here, Lighthomez Angles Heights works as a base you return to rather than step out from. It sits in Greater Nairobi, 3.41 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the surrounding area is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. That makes the parking, the lounges and the leisure floor the point, not the doorstep. It suits a driver in town on business, or a couple who want the pool and spa and will take a car to dinner. It does not suit anyone hoping to walk to the office, the market or a bar.
02The supplier's photographs
0320 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 Lighthomez Angles Heights through this site, and check the cancellation term on the room type before you confirm. 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 Lighthomez Angles Heights?+
It is on 190 School Ln in Greater Nairobi, outside the central quarter. The measured distance is 3.98 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as a property you reach by car or taxi, not on foot from the centre.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
The list covers a 24 hour front desk, lifts, luggage storage, a safe, laundry and dry cleaning, express check out, free car parking and a smoking area. Leisure facilities include an outdoor pool, spa, health club, fitness center, garden, terrace, lounge, casino and entertainment activities. Food and drink outlets are not named.
Can I walk from the hotel into the centre?+
No, not comfortably. Lighthomez Angles Heights is 3.41 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the area around it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan on a car.
What does the guest score tell me?+
The property has a guest score of 4 out of 5 from 276 reviews, which is a solid rather than flawless record for a 3 star hotel. Read it as general satisfaction with the rooms and the leisure facilities, and expect the location outside the centre to be the recurring point of complaint.
