A five star apartment-style house on Kilimani's ridge, listed with the full run of gym, pool and dining facilities you would expect at that star rating, plus kitchens. The thing that decides it is the ridge itself: this is a car address, and you need a ride for anything outside the compound.
01What it is
Serene Hills Home sits on George Padmore Road in Kilimani, rated five star, and the facility list runs long and broad: apartments with kitchens and kitchenettes, air conditioning, balconies and terraces, a fitness centre, an outdoor pool and kids pool, a spa and massage, a garden and picnic area, a tennis court, a golf course, a business centre, a chapel, bars and a night club, a restaurant operation covering breakfast, lunch and dinner with buffet and room service, laundry, housekeeping, babysitting and a 24 hour front desk with 24 hour security. The list is also plainly the supplier's global template, and it is thin where it matters: archery, bowling and horse back riding are named but nothing says where any of them happen, and there is no detail on how the apartments are laid out or how many bedrooms they hold.
For someone staying at Serene Hills Home, what that adds up to is a self-contained place on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, where you can cook for yourself, work from a desk, and eat and exercise without leaving the compound. That suits a business traveller on a Kilimani programme, a family that wants space and a kitchen, and anyone who values 24 hour security and parking over being in the middle of things. It does not suit a visitor whose trip is the centre: Serene Hills Home is 15.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 196 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the city is a ride, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 63 more on the supplier's own record. 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 a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Serene Hills Home is bookable here, so check your dates against what is free at the time. 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 Serene Hills Home?+
It is on George Padmore Road in Kilimani, on the ridge in Greater Nairobi. The site covers ten quarters, and the nearest of them is Upper Hill and Community, 13.77 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.
What does the property actually list for guests?+
Apartments with kitchens and kitchenettes, air conditioning, balconies and terraces, a fitness centre, an outdoor pool and kids pool, a spa, tennis, a garden and picnic area, a business centre, bars and a night club, meals from breakfast to dinner with room service, laundry, babysitting and a 24 hour front desk with 24 hour security.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Serene Hills Home is 15.62 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 196 minutes on foot in a direct line. Nobody sensible walks that. You take a car, and the same applies after dark: this is a hotel bar and a ride anywhere else sort of area, not a stroll to town.
How do I check availability at Serene Hills Home?+
Enter your dates on app.impt.io and the free cancellation options show against the rooms that are open. The property runs apartments as well as rooms, so if you need a kitchen and more than one bed, say so in the search rather than assuming the standard room will do.
