Utalii Hotel Prices
The current Utalii Hotel prices are:
- Utalii Hotel Prices for Standard Room: $80 For Single Occupancy & $20 for an Extra Bed
- Utalii Hotel Prices for Shared Room: $100 Double Occupancy & $20 for an extra Bed
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Utalii Hotel Contacts
Thika Super Highway next to Traffic Police HQ
Email: reservations@utalii.ac.ke/marketing@utalii.ac.ke
Tel: +254-722-205891/2 or +254-733-410005
Utalii Hotel Nairobi Website
The website for Utalii Hotel is www.utaliihotel.co.ke.
A while back, when I was staying with my hospitable friend from USIU, I happened to have family members visit from out of town.
Usually, these family members would have stayed with me – I make it a point to always have enough room for visitors in any of my homes.
This time, though, I surely couldn’t take further advantage of my friend’s hospitality.
My family would have to stay elsewhere – and it was up to me to arrange that.
I called a couple of hotels downtown, but the exorbitant prices had me thinking of other alternatives (is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how crazy hotel prices have gotten nowadays – particularly in Nairobi?).
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I called a number of other hotels that I expected to be less expensive but was not lucky with room availability.
Finally, at the end of my tether, I turned to my trusted resource, The Rough Guide to Kenya.
The Rough Guide to Kenya led me to Utalii Hotel.
I had never heard of it before, but it was conveniently located not far from my friend’s place.
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Affiliated to the famous school of hospitality, Kenya Utalii College, a double room at Utalii Hotel cost Ksh. 7,500 per night.
This was a far cry from what other hotels were charging.
Judging from what I read in the Rough Guide, as well as what I knew about Utalii College, I took the risk and booked my family at Utalii Hotel.
The risk paid off, and I liked what I found there.
Utalii Hotel Location
First and foremost, Utalii Hotel is a 4-star hotel located on the Nairobi-Thika highway, 8 km from downtown Nairobi.
Although I’d been on this highway many times over the years, I’d never heard of nor seen the hotel before.
This was surprising to me because, now that I know where it is, it’s really hard to miss.
Utalii Hotel is not a small hotel by any stretch of the imagination.
It’s actually quite big, containing more than 50 rooms.
When I arrived at Utalii Hotel, I was amazed to see the number of international guests that were checking into the hotel.
I wondered where these guests were from.
Also, I wondered why they chose to stay at this particular hotel.
I later found out that a number of these guests were customers of Kenya Airways that were being taken care of by the airline for the night.
This amazed me.
To be affiliated to Kenya Airways meant that Utalii Hotel was a well-enough regarded Nairobi hotel.
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When my relatives were checked-in and allocated a room, I was impressed with what I found there too.
The Rooms at Kenya Utalii Hotel
The room was spacious and well decorated, with attention paid to detail that made it quite homely.
For instance, the room had everything necessary to make a cup of tea or coffee.
That’s the first thing my guests did upon settling down in their room (my visitors were female folk from my mother’s side of the family 🙂 ).
Then, a little later in the evening, an attendant came into the room to switch on an anti-mosquito device.
This was both odorless and smokeless.
We thought that was pretty cool and very considerate of hotel guests.
I ended up spending the night at Utalii Hotel with my womenfolk because the double room consisted not only of a double bed but had a single bed too (presumably for a couple with a young child).
I am glad I did, otherwise I might have missed out on what I consider one of the best parts of staying at Utalii Hotel: the morning view from the rooms.
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