A 3 star conference hotel on Argwings Kodhek Road, on the ridge side of the centre. It has a garden, a spa and a casino, and it sits close to Upper Hill. It suits you if a meeting is the point of the trip, and it does not if you want the streets of the CBD on foot after dark.
01What it is
Olive Gardens Hotel Nairobi lists what a working trip needs. There is a 24 hour front desk, a business center, a meeting room and a banquet room, so a day of talks can happen without leaving the property. It also lists free wifi, internet access, lifts, luggage storage and a concierge. You can eat and drink on site: a restaurant, a cafe, bars, a terrace and a garden. There is a spa, a casino, laundry and dry cleaning, a smoking area and wheelchair access. The thin part is the room itself. Beyond the star rating, nothing here describes the size, the age or the quiet of the bedrooms.
For someone staying here, Olive Gardens Hotel Nairobi works as a base for a conference or a hospital or embassy errand rather than a holiday. The garden and terrace give you somewhere to sit at the end of the day, but the surrounding street is built for the car, and after dark the honest reading of the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The property sits 3.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, so most trips out will be by vehicle. It suits business travellers and quiet trips. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre's nightlife or its daytime streets within walking distance.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one if the meeting room, the parking side of the ridge and the quiet are what you are after. 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 Olive Gardens Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Argwings Kodhek Road in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge side of the city. It sits 1.72 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The centre is a vehicle trip from the door, not a stroll.
What does the hotel list for business travellers?+
The list includes a 24 hour front desk, a business center, a meeting room, a banquet room and free wifi, so a work day can be run on site. There is also a concierge, luggage storage and lifts. What the list does not describe is the bedrooms themselves.
Can you walk into the centre from the hotel?+
The property is 3.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street around it is built for the car. Most people staying here will use a vehicle for anything in the CBD, including dinner.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property holds 4.5 out of 5 from 71 reviews, which is a strong score on a modest number of reviews. Read it as a good sign from a small sample rather than a guarantee, and set it against the quiet, car dependent location and the three star rating.
