A three star hotel on Kirichwa Road in Greater Nairobi, away from the central grid. It suits you if you have a car, a conference and an early night; it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre.
01What it is
Lissa Luxury Suites is a 3 star property on Kirichwa Road. The list is short and practical: breakfast, internet access, laundry service, parking and a restaurant. The parking is the item that matters most, because this is a part of the city built for the car. Breakfast and the restaurant cover you for the morning and a meal without leaving, and the laundry service is the useful one if you are staying several days. Internet access is listed without any detail on speed or coverage, so treat it as a promise of connection and nothing more. There is no gym, no pool and no airport transfer on the list, so do not arrive expecting them.
For the person staying here, Lissa Luxury Suites is a quiet, workable base rather than a launchpad. You eat on site, you park on site and you sleep on a ridge where the traffic is other people's problem. That is the whole offer, and it is a good one for a conference delegate, a contractor on a site visit or a driver who wants the car outside the room. It suits you less if your trip is the centre itself: the address sits on the edge of the Greater Nairobi area, and the bars around here are hotel bars. If you want the city, you take a ride.
02The supplier's photographs
035 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Lissa Luxury Suites directly if the parking and the quiet are what you are paying for, because both are on the list and neither is easy to find closer in. 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 Lissa Luxury Suites?+
It is on Kirichwa Road in the Greater Nairobi area, on a ridge of new concrete. The address is 4.69 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 59 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is 3.36 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is not a central address, so plan on a ride.
What does the hotel actually have?+
The listed facilities are breakfast, internet access, laundry service, parking and a restaurant. There is no gym, no pool and no shuttle on the list. For a 3 star property on this side of the city, parking and an on site restaurant are the two that carry the stay, and both are there.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You are outside the central grid, on a ridge built for the car and the conference room. The street is not a place to wander, and after dark the bars are hotel bars, so anything else is a ride. The nearest quarter this site covers is Upper Hill and Community.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.7 out of 5 from 9998 reviews. A score that high across that many reviews is not the work of a handful of visitors, so it is worth reading in detail rather than as a single number. It tells you the basics are being done consistently, not that this is a luxury property.
