A three star hotel on Ring Road Kilimani, off Lenana Road, on a ridge built for cars and conference rooms. What decides it for you is the car: with one, this works for business and for the nightclub crowd. Without one, you are relying on the hotel bar and rides.
01What it is
OSinkirri Hotel lists the full service floor a three star business hotel is expected to carry: a 24 hour front desk, concierge, multilingual staff, luggage storage, safe, free wifi, free car parking and a shuttle service. It also lists restaurant, cafe, bars, a night club, a garden, a terrace and a smoking area, plus laundry, dry cleaning and a free newspaper. Where the list thins is money and access: the facilities block names a surcharge without explaining what it applies to, and wheelchair access is listed without detail on which parts of the property it reaches.
What that adds up to is a hotel set for the car and the conference room, not the pavement. OSinkirri Hotel sits on new concrete on a ridge, on Ring Road Kilimani off Lenana Road, and the evening runs through hotel bars, with a ride for anything else. Book it if you are in Nairobi for meetings, have a car or a driver, and want parking and a desk without ceremony. Do not book it if you want to walk out of the lobby into the centre: this is not that address.
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 OSinkirri Hotel if you want the Kilimani ridge, parking and a car-first address rather than a base you step out of into the centre. 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 OSinkirri Hotel?+
It is on Ring Road Kilimani, off Lenana Road, in Nairobi. The site puts it 4.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat this as a car address on the ridge rather than a base you walk out of into the centre.
What does OSinkirri Hotel list for guests?+
The list covers a 24 hour front desk, concierge, multilingual staff, free wifi, free car parking, a shuttle service, restaurant, cafe, bars, a night club, garden, terrace, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and a safe. The block also names a surcharge and wheelchair access without saying what either covers. The hotel is rated three star.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The site's note on the street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and the evenings are safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Free parking is listed, so arriving with a car or driver is the straightforward version of this stay.
What does the 4.4 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the property's guest score, given as 4.4 out of 5 from 725 reviews. Read it as broad satisfaction across a large number of stays rather than a premium signal, since the hotel is rated three star and its listed strengths are the practical ones: parking, a desk, and a full service front desk.
