A 3 star conference and spa hotel on Marcus Garvey Road in Kilimani, north of the centre. It decides on whether you want a quiet, car based stay with parking, meeting rooms and a sauna, or a place inside the quarter itself, where you can walk out to the halls and bars.
01What it is
Wida Resort Kilimani is a 3 star property on Marcus Garvey Road in Kilimani, and its listed facilities are built around work and cars rather than around the street. There is a 24 hour front desk, concierge, luggage storage, a business centre, a meeting room and a banquet space, plus free wifi, free car parking, a safe and a free newspaper. For eating and drinking it lists restaurants, bars and a cafe. For recovery it lists a spa, sauna, steam room, terrace and smoking area, along with laundry, dry cleaning and wheelchair access. The thin part is anything that makes the building itself the reason to stay: no pool, no gym, and a surcharge line that tells you nothing about what it covers.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Wida Resort Kilimani is a hotel set up for a car and a schedule, not for wandering. 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. If you are in Nairobi for a meeting, a workshop or a conference, and you want parking, a quiet room and a sauna at the end of the day, this fits. If you want to step out of the lobby into the centre, the markets, the halls and the evening life, it does not, and you should look inside the quarter instead.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Wida Resort Kilimani if a car based, work focused stay in Kilimani is what you want, and check 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 is Wida Resort Kilimani?+
It is on Marcus Garvey Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi. The site measures it at 3.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 48 minutes on foot in a direct line, so this is a car or taxi address rather than one you walk into the centre from.
What does the property list for business travellers?+
Wida Resort Kilimani lists a 24 hour front desk, concierge, luggage storage, a business centre, a meeting room and a banquet space, with free wifi and free car parking. Eating and drinking are covered by restaurants, bars and a cafe. There is no pool or gym on the list.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
The property sits in Greater Nairobi, and the site puts it 2.2 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark you take a ride for anything else.
What does the guest score of 3.9 out of 5 mean?+
It is a solid middle score from 129 reviews, which fits a 3 star hotel doing the basics well. Read it as competent rather than special: the conference and parking side is the point, and anything that makes the building itself memorable is not promised by the listed facilities.
