A 3 star hotel on Fourth Parklands Avenue in Greater Nairobi, with 24 hour staffing, free parking and free wifi. What decides it for you is the location: this is a transport edge, not a walking quarter, so you want a car or a driver for everything after dark.
01What it is
Sky Hotel Nairobi is a 3 star property on Fourth Parklands Avenue in Greater Nairobi, and its list is the useful, unglamorous kind. There is a 24 hour front desk and 24H. Security, lifts, ATM, currency exchange, concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, express check in, a business center with copy facilities, and free wifi and free car parking with a garage. Rooms come with air conditioning, a fan, a TV, telephone, desk, safe, carpeted floors and a balcony, plus bath, shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Some units add a kitchen, refrigerator and sofa bed, and family rooms exist. You can eat on site at the restaurant, buffet breakfast, lunch, bar, snack bar, lounge and terrace. The list is thin on recreation: there is no pool and no gym, and the beauty salon and picnic area are the whole of the leisure offering.
For a traveller, Sky Hotel Nairobi adds up to a functional Greater Nairobi base rather than a destination in itself. You get security, parking and food without leaving the building, which suits anyone arriving late or working from the hotel, and the business center, business facilities and quiet non smoking rooms suit a short working stay. The property sits 2.47 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you are outside the centre rather than in it. It does not suit anyone who wants the CBD on foot, or an evening built around walking out for dinner. Treat it as a bed, a desk and a parking space with a car standing by.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 31 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers, on the edge of the centre in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten quarters, not the one you are sleeping in. Treat it as a base you travel in and out of: anything in the CBD means a crossing by car rather than a walk from your door.
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the grid, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin, and the Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge. The fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, Museum Hill is the next rise beyond, and the street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. The quarter itself lies 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Sky Hotel Nairobi knowing that the room is the easy part and the location is the decision, since you will be relying on a car either way. 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 Sky Hotel Nairobi?+
It is on Fourth Parklands Avenue in Greater Nairobi, in the north of the city rather than in the central business district. The site measures it 3.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 40 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does.
What does the hotel list in the rooms?+
Air conditioning, a fan, a TV, telephone, desk, safe, carpeted floors and a balcony, with bath, shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Some units add a kitchen, refrigerator and sofa bed, and there are family rooms and non smoking rooms. Wifi is free and there is a lift.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You do not walk it as an evening. The area is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's own line on after dark is to cross it by car. Plan on a car, a taxi or the shuttle service, and use the free car parking if you drive yourself.
What does the guest score of 4.2 out of 5 mean?+
It is the average from 236 reviews, so it reflects a large number of guests rather than a handful. Read it as a solid, workable three star stay with the usual spread of opinions rather than a polished one. The facilities list, not the score, tells you what is actually provided.
