A five star hotel on James Gichuru Road, in the new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. The list is long, the setting is quiet, and the question that decides it is whether you want the centre at all.
01What it is
The Social House Nairobi a Preferred Lifestyle Hotel is a five star property on James Gichuru Road in Greater Nairobi, and its listed facilities group into four useful piles. Food and drink: restaurant, bar, lounge, breakfast, lunch, dinner, room service, special diets. Work and upkeep: free wifi, desk, meeting and copy services, concierge, laundry, dry cleaning, currency exchange, car rental, shuttle. Body: outdoor swimming pool, fitness centre, garden and terrace. Rooms: air conditioning, bathrobe, safe, iron and board, family rooms, non smoking rooms, and wheelchair accessible rooms. Breakfast in room and a 24 hour front desk round it out. Where the list goes thin is transport and the street itself: parking and valet are covered, but the location is a drive, not a stroll, and nothing here fixes that.
For a stay, The Social House Nairobi a Preferred Lifestyle Hotel is a self contained machine: you eat, swim, work and sleep within the grounds, and the city is a car trip away. The after dark note for this part of Greater Nairobi is safe and dull, hotel bars and a ride anywhere else, so the bar is where the evening stays unless you order the shuttle. It suits a conference or business traveller, a family wanting family rooms and a pool, and anyone who values quiet over street life. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out into the centre: the site's nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community, is 5.34 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and Kenyatta Avenue is further still.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 21 more on the supplier's own record. 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 The Social House Nairobi a Preferred Lifestyle Hotel if the address itself is not the point, and read the cancellation terms before you commit. 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 The Social House Nairobi?+
It is on 154 James Gichuru Road in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. The site's nearest quarter is Upper Hill and Community, so plan on driving to meetings rather than walking.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
A restaurant, bar, lounge, outdoor pool, fitness centre, garden, terrace, free wifi, full room service, air conditioning, a safe, family rooms, laundry, a concierge, currency exchange, car rental, a shuttle, free parking and valet parking. It also lists babysitting, banquet space and accessible rooms. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all covered on site.
How far is it from the centre of Nairobi?+
The property is 6.55 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 82 minutes on foot in a direct line. The route is not one you would choose to walk. Treat the centre as a car or shuttle trip and the hotel as the base you return to in the evening.
What does the guest score of 4.6 out of 5 mean?+
It is the average from 2696 reviews on file, a strong result for a five star hotel of this size and one that reflects the facilities rather than the address. It is not a rating of the location. If you want the centre on foot, no score here changes that.
