A five star hotel on Kenyatta Avenue Processional Way, at the edge of Uhuru Park and Central Park. The parks close at dusk, so this is a base for meetings and for daylight, not for wandering the green after dark. Full facilities, and a following to match.
01What it is
Nairobi Serena Hotel is a five star property on Kenyatta Avenue Processional Way, and its list runs long: 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, air conditioning, free wifi and internet access, room service, laundry, dry cleaning and housekeeping, a business center, a fitness center, a spa with massage and sauna, an outdoor pool with a kids pool, a playground and babysitting, restaurants, bars, a lounge, a garden and a terrace, free car parking, a car rental service, a shuttle service, a concierge and currency exchange. Where it is thin: the list is facilities rather than specifics, so you will want the property to confirm the detail of any room before you commit.
For someone staying here, Nairobi Serena Hotel reads as a formal, full service hotel rather than a small one, and the deciding factor is the location rather than the room list. Uhuru Park and Central Park are the setting, and they close at dusk, so the green is a daytime thing and the evenings belong to the hotel or to a ride elsewhere. It suits business travellers and anyone who wants the centre handled for them, and it does not suit anyone who wants the parks on the doorstep after dark.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 37 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Uhuru Park and Central Park
These hotels sit at the green edge of the grid, in Uhuru Park and Central Park, two connected parks along Uhuru Highway that give the CBD its lungs and its best photograph. The quarter itself is 1.06 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 14 minutes on foot in a direct line. What you get here is grass, a lake, and the towers standing straight up behind it: the boating lake, a skyline view, and Freedom Corner at the Uhuru Park end, where the pro-democracy protests of the 1990s were held. It is best for late-afternoon light on the skyline and the only proper walk in the centre.
After dark everything changes. The parks close at dusk, and nobody should be in them after dark. That makes this a daytime quarter, and the halls shut in the late afternoon. Suits anyone who wants green space and a straight walk into the offices, and anyone content to move by car once the light goes. It does not suit a night out on foot, and it does not suit anyone who wants the bars and streets around them after dark.
Read the whole of Uhuru Park and Central Park05Booking it
Book Nairobi Serena Hotel directly if you want the full facility list and the park setting, and treat the parks as a daytime address rather than an evening one. 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 Nairobi Serena Hotel?+
It sits on Kenyatta Avenue Processional Way in Nairobi, in the Uhuru Park and Central Park area, 0.54 km from the centre of Uhuru Park and Central Park. The address puts it beside the green rather than inside the business streets, so you are on the edge of the centre, not in the middle of it.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
Nairobi Serena Hotel lists a long facilities set: 24 hour front desk and security, free wifi, air conditioning, restaurants and bars, room service, a business center, a fitness center, a spa with massage and sauna, an outdoor pool and a kids pool, a garden, free parking and a car rental service.
What is it like getting into the centre from Uhuru Park and Central Park?+
The hotel is 1.09 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 14 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the business streets are reachable on foot in daylight. After dark the parks close and the area empties, so plan on a ride rather than a walk.
What does the guest score mean?+
Nairobi Serena Hotel carries a guest score of 4.7 out of 5 from 5903 reviews, which is a large body of feedback rather than a handful of comments. Read it as the property's own record, not as a guarantee of any particular room or rate.
