A 3 star hotel on Muthangari Road in Greater Nairobi, with free parking, a garden and a bar. The location is the decider. It sits 5.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 73 minutes on foot in a direct line, so this is a place for drivers, not for walkers.
01What it is
Osnet Boutique Resort lists the things a driver needs first: free car parking, 24H. Check In, luggage storage, a shuttle service and a concierge. Inside there is a bar and lounge, a garden, a TV, a shower, a bathroom and toiletries, plus breakfast, free bottled water, free internet access in the lounge, laundry, dry cleaning and credit cards. Pets are not allowed. The list is thin on the working side: no meeting room is named, no gym, and the free internet is lounge only, not in the rooms.
What that adds up to is a small hotel built around arrival and parking rather than around the centre of Nairobi. Osnet Boutique Resort sits 4.5 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Suit a driver, or anyone whose day is already planned around a car. Not for you if you want the CBD on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0318 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 this one on the practical facts rather than the atmosphere, because the free parking and the 24H. Check In are what a driver is paying for here. 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 Osnet Boutique Resort in Nairobi?+
It is at 26 Muthangari Rd Valley Arcade, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It sits 4.5 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 5.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 73 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
The listed facilities are a bar and lounge, a garden, breakfast, free bottled water, free internet access in the lounge, a TV, a shower, toiletries, free car parking, 24H. Check In, a concierge, a shuttle service, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, and credit cards are accepted. Pets are not allowed.
Can I walk from the hotel into central Nairobi?+
You can, but it is a long walk. The property is 5.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 73 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street there is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
What does a 3.6 out of 5 guest score mean here?+
It means 115 past guests rated it 3.6 out of 5, so the hotel is decent rather than exceptional. The things that lift it are the parking, the garden and the free internet in the lounge. The things that hold it back are a normal 3 star room and a location that assumes you have a car.
