A three star property on Mkungu Close in Greater Nairobi, out past the central quarter and built around a car. The car park is the thing that decides it: with a vehicle it works, without one you are relying on the shuttle.
01What it is
The Skies by YourHost Nairobi lists a wide and mixed set of facilities: free car parking and parking, a shuttle service, laundry and dry cleaning, an outdoor pool, a spa, a casino, a supermarket, a smoking area and wheelchair access. The 3 star rating sits honestly with that list. What a visitor actually uses is the parking, the laundry and the pool. The list is thin on the things a business traveller checks first, because no meeting space, no restaurant and no gym appear on it.
For someone staying here, The Skies by YourHost Nairobi is a car-first property in Greater Nairobi rather than a base inside the centre. A supermarket on site covers the ordinary errands, laundry and dry cleaning cover a longer stay, and the pool and spa cover the hours after work. It suits a driver who wants parking and space away from the middle of town, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre. The site's own line about the nearest quarter applies: a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 facilities the supplier lists
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. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one early if you need a car space, because free parking is the reason most people choose it. 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 Skies by YourHost Nairobi?+
It is on Mkungu Close in Greater Nairobi, outside the central quarter rather than in it. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 2.45 km from Biashara Street and City Market, and the city centre is a further step out from there. Plan on a vehicle or the shuttle.
What facilities does the property list?+
The list includes free car parking, a shuttle service, an outdoor pool, a spa, a casino, a supermarket, a smoking area, laundry, dry cleaning and wheelchair access. It is a mixed list rather than a business hotel one: no meeting room, no restaurant and no gym appear on it. The setting is a 3 star property on Mkungu Close.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The property sits 2.96 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is a direct line rather than a route you would want to walk with luggage. The shuttle service and free parking are the two listed facilities that answer this.
How do I check availability at The Skies by YourHost Nairobi?+
Check dates and room types through the booking link on this page, which shows what is open for your stay. Because parking is limited and is the main reason people pick this property, it is worth booking ahead if you are arriving by car rather than leaving it late.
