A four star conference hotel on Ralph Bunche Road in Upper Hill, built for people with meetings rather than people on holiday. It works if your day is on the ridge and your evenings are in the building. It does not work if you want to step out of the lobby into the centre of Nairobi.
01What it is
Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel is a four star property on Ralph Bunche Road, in Upper Hill and Community. The lists that matter to a working stay are well covered: a twenty four hour front desk, business centre, concierge, express check in, currency exchange, car rental and shuttle service, free wifi and free car parking, laundry, dry cleaning and housekeeping, and rooms with a desk, a safe, a minibar, a refrigerator and a kitchen. Eat and drink on site at the restaurant and the bar, and the leisure side is wider than most: outdoor pool, fitness centre, spa, sauna, steam room, massage, garden and terrace. The list is thinner where a longer stay or a family trip needs it. The property is wheelchair accessible and lists family rooms and cots, but the entries arrive as bare names, with no detail on how the accessible rooms are fitted out or how the family rooms are arranged.
For your stay, Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel means a self contained day. You wake up, eat breakfast in the building, work from the business centre, swim or take the spa and sauna, and eat dinner in the restaurant or the lounge without leaving Ralph Bunche Road. Upper Hill and Community is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. This hotel suits the conference delegate, the business traveller with a schedule on the ridge, and the family that wants a pool and a kitchen and does not mind driving to everything else. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the lobby into shops, restaurants and nightlife.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 39 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
Book Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel if your business is on the Upper Hill ridge and you want the pool, the spa and the restaurant in the same building as your room. 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 Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel?+
It is on Ralph Bunche Road in Upper Hill and Community, 0.52 km from the centre of Upper Hill and Community. The city centre is a different matter: Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 2.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. In practice you take a car or the shuttle.
What does Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel have on site?+
A twenty four hour front desk, business centre, concierge, restaurant and bar, free wifi, free car parking, laundry and dry cleaning, plus an outdoor pool, fitness centre, spa, sauna, steam room, massage, garden and terrace. Rooms list a desk, safe, minibar, refrigerator and kitchen. Details of the accessible and family rooms are thin.
Can you walk from Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel into central Nairobi?+
Not comfortably, and not after dark. Upper Hill and Community is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. You plan on a car, a taxi or the hotel shuttle rather than a walk.
What does the 4.3 out of 5 guest score mean for Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel?+
It is a strong average across a large number of reviews, so it tells you the property usually delivers what it promises rather than that it is exceptional. Read it alongside what it offers: a four star conference and business hotel with leisure facilities, not a small boutique stay in the city centre.
