A three star apartment style address on Dennis Pritt Road, up on the ridge in Greater Nairobi. It lists a pool, a gym, air conditioning and balconies, and it is built around arriving by car. If you want to walk out of your door into the centre, this is the wrong side of town; if you are here for a meeting, it works.
01What it is
Suite Life Residences is a three star property on Dennis Pritt Road, with twelve photos on file. The listed facilities are the practical sort: air conditioning, free wifi, non smoking rooms, a balcony, a fitness center and a swimming pool. That covers the working day and the hour after it. Where the list is thin is the rest of it. There is no restaurant named, no bar, no airport transfer, no parking stated, and no guest score on file, so nothing here tells you how the place is actually run.
What that adds up to is a base for someone who arrives by car and leaves by car. Suite Life Residences sits on new concrete up on a ridge, laid out for the conference room and the vehicle, and after dark the immediate area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Take it if your days are booked in the Upper Hill and Community direction or in the diplomatic streets around Dennis Pritt. Leave it if you want the Central Business District on foot, or if you want the evening to happen outside your hotel without a car.
02The supplier's photographs
036 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 Suite Life Residences if your Nairobi days are planned around a car and a meeting, not a walk into the centre. 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 Suite Life Residences?+
It is at No. 844 Dennis Pritt Road, in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge above the centre. It sits 3.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.64 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the property list?+
Air conditioning, free wifi, non smoking rooms, a balcony, a fitness center and a swimming pool. Those are the listed facilities. Nothing else is stated: no restaurant, no bar and no parking appear on the list, so plan meals and evening drinks elsewhere unless you confirm directly with the property.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
You do it by car. Dennis Pritt Road is built for the car and the conference room, and the quarter is a daytime one. After dark the surroundings are safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride needed for anything else. Walking into the Central Business District is not the plan here.
Who does this property suit?+
Anyone whose Nairobi days are anchored in the Upper Hill, Community or Dennis Pritt area, arriving and leaving by vehicle. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of the lobby into the Central Business District, or who wants the evening to happen outside the hotel without arranging transport.
