A 3 star conference and leisure hotel on Argwings Kodhek Road in Upper Hill, with a pool, a spa, a gym and banqueting space, and a guest score that holds up over a large number of reviews. It suits you if you are here for meetings or driving in and out, and not if you want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Silver Springs Hotel lists the full apparatus of a 3 star conference hotel: restaurant and bar, banquet and business centre, outdoor pool with pool bar, fitness centre, gymnasium, spa, sauna, steam room, massage and jacuzzi. Rooms carry air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a TV and a balcony, with bath, shower and toiletries, and cots and family rooms are listed. The list is thicker than the rating suggests. It is also unsubtle: no kitchenettes, no self catering, nothing for a long independent stay.
Silver Springs Hotel sits on a ridge district built around cars and conference rooms, so what you get is a contained day: meet, eat, swim, sleep, repeat, with the front desk and security staffed around the clock and parking free on site. The trade is the surrounding area rather than the hotel. It suits business travellers, conference groups and families who want facilities under one roof; it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the city centre in the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 32 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Upper Hill and Community
Upper Hill and Community sits on the western ridge, 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. The street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
It 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. That suits people here to work and people who want their evening contained. It does not suit anyone expecting street life outside the door. The streets are built for the car and the conference room, so plan to move by vehicle once the working day ends.
Read the whole of Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
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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 Silver Springs Hotel?+
On Argwings Kodhek Road in the Upper Hill and Community area. It is 0.87 km from the centre of Upper Hill and Community, and 2.55 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 32 minutes on foot in a direct line. The district is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room.
What facilities does the hotel actually list?+
An outdoor pool and pool bar, fitness centre, gymnasium, spa, sauna, steam room, massage, jacuzzi, restaurant, bar, banquet and business centre, free wifi, free car parking, laundry and dry cleaning, currency exchange, concierge, car rental and shuttle service. Rooms list air conditioning, desk, safe, minibar, TV, balcony and family rooms.
What is Upper Hill like after dark?+
Safe and dull. Hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. It is a daytime quarter of offices and conference venues, and you should plan on eating and drinking where you sleep or taking a car out. Silver Springs Hotel has the restaurant, bar and pool bar to cover the first of those.
What does the guest score of 4.3 out of 5 mean?+
It is an aggregate of 2286 reviews, so a large and settled sample rather than a handful of early stays. Read it as a property that broadly delivers what it lists, with individual complaints lost in the average. It says nothing about how the surrounding streets feel at night, which is a separate question.
