A four star hotel on a quiet Kilimani close, built around conference space, lawns and parking rather than the street outside it. What decides whether it suits you is the car: with one you reach the centre easily, without one you are dependent on shuttles and rides for everything.
01What it is
The Ndemi Place lists the full apparatus of a conference and family hotel: banquet and meeting space, restaurant and bar, buffet and lunch service, special diets on request, and a garden, terrace and playground for the hours between sessions. Rooms include suites and family rooms, all air conditioned and non smoking, with free wifi throughout, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, security around the clock, laundry, dry cleaning and housekeeping. There is also a small library and a lounge. The list is thinner on the ordinary things: no gym or pool, no airport desk named, and the shuttle service is listed without saying where it goes.
For someone staying here, that adds up to a self contained property on a ridge, which is a different proposition from a hotel in the centre. The Ndemi Place is 3.83 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so it works best if your business is in Kilimani, Upper Hill or the conference rooms themselves. It suits families with a car and delegates who spend the day on site. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the city: the street is new concrete built for the car, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0334 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 of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community 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. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one if your days are already fixed to Kilimani or the conference floor, since the hotel rewards a settled itinerary more than a wandering one. 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 The Ndemi Place?+
It stands on Ndemi Close in Kilimani, on a ridge in Greater Nairobi. The city centre is 5.39 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 68 minutes on foot in a direct line. Upper Hill is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it is much closer than the centre.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
Air conditioning, free wifi, free parking, a 24 hour front desk and round the clock security, plus a restaurant, bar, banquet space, garden, terrace, playground, library and lounge. Family rooms and suites are listed. The list is thin on leisure facilities: no pool or gym appears.
Do you need a car to stay in Kilimani?+
It helps. The street is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and after dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. With a car you reach the centre and Upper Hill on your own schedule; without one you rely on the shuttle or taxis.
How do you check availability at The Ndemi Place?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. The property lists suites, family rooms and non smoking rooms, so you can see which of those is open for your dates there. Cancellation terms are displayed with each room before you confirm.
