A three star suite on George Padmore Lane, off the ridge in Greater Nairobi, with breakfast and free parking. The deciding factor is your reason for being here. It is built for the conference room and the car, not for a day on foot, so a business or hospital trip works and a sightseeing stay does not.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Hurlingham B&B Suite lists three things: breakfast, free car parking and wheelchair access. The breakfast matters if you are leaving early and do not want to find food first, and the parking matters more here than in most of the city, because this is a quarter built for the car. Wheelchair access is listed, which is worth confirming at the point of booking if you need it, since the listing does not say where it applies. The list is thin on everything else. There is no restaurant beyond breakfast, no gym, no workspace described, and no shuttle. For a three star suite, that is the honest shape of it.
What that adds up to is a place to sleep and park while your day happens somewhere else. Stay.Plus Hurlingham B&B Suite is 2.28 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the business district is the practical draw and the reason to be on this ridge. The street is new concrete, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits someone with a conference, a hospital appointment or a car and an early start. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot, or an evening that begins outside the hotel.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 this one directly if free parking and an early breakfast are the two things your trip actually needs. 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 Stay.Plus Hurlingham B&B Suite?+
It is on George Padmore Lane in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge above the centre. It is 2.28 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it is built for people arriving by car rather than on foot.
What does the property actually list?+
Three things: breakfast, free car parking and wheelchair access. There is no restaurant beyond breakfast, no gym and no shuttle, so do not expect a full service hotel. The free parking is the most useful item on the list if you are driving.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
It is possible but not the point of the location. The property is 3.97 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line, and after dark the street offers hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Take a car.
How do I check availability?+
Check dates and room types through app.impt.io, where the booking is made. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and availability is shown live at the point of booking. Confirm wheelchair access there too if you need it, as the listing does not say where it applies.
