Wida Highway Motel is a 3 star roadside property on the Nairobi Nakuru Highway in Kikuyu, built for cars and stopovers rather than for walking the city. Free parking, a 24 hour desk and free wifi are the reasons to choose it. The reason to look elsewhere is the centre itself.
01What it is
Wida Highway Motel lists the practical things a driver needs: free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, luggage storage and laundry. There is also dry cleaning, a restaurant, bars, a terrace, a garden and a picnic area. A concierge is listed, and wheelchair access is claimed. It is a 3 star property, so the list is serviceable rather than generous. Surcharge appears with no detail, and no gym, pool or airport transfer is listed at all. Treat the facilities as a place to sleep and eat, not as a resort.
For anyone staying at Wida Highway Motel, the sum is a functional roadside base. The distance tells the story: 18.43 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you are not in the centre and you are not near it. The street feel 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. It suits a driver breaking a journey or someone on business along the highway. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk to Nairobi's centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0314 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 a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is 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. 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Wida Highway Motel directly if you want the 24 hour desk, the free parking and a room without ceremony, and confirm what the surcharge covers 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 is Wida Highway Motel?+
It is on the Nairobi Nakuru Highway in Kikuyu, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 19.13 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 240 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is a roadside location, and you need a car or a ride to get anywhere from it.
What facilities does the property list?+
It lists free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, laundry, dry cleaning, luggage storage, a restaurant, bars, a terrace, a garden, a picnic area, a concierge and wheelchair access. It is a 3 star property, and the list is practical rather than extensive. Surcharge is listed with no detail.
Can I stay here and walk into Nairobi's centre?+
No, not realistically. The property is 18.43 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score mean?+
It has a guest score of 3.7 out of 5 from 1139 reviews. That is a middling result at volume: enough reviewers to be meaningful, and a score that says adequate rather than excellent. Read it as a functional place that does the basics without standing out.
