Photos of New Hilton Luxury Hotel Set to be Opened After Closure of CBD Branch
The new branch will be located at the Peponi-Kitisuru Road junction and will feature 102 rooms in five interconnected blocks overlooking Karura Forest.
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The internationally acclaimed Hilton Hotels is scheduled to open a new hotel in Kenya in February 2023 situated at Kwetu Nairobi, Curio Collection by Hilton.
The new branch will be located at the Peponi-Kitisuru Road junction and will feature 102 rooms in five interconnected blocks overlooking Karura Forest.
A Curio Collection banner on the hotel’s website notes: “We are opening in February 2023, but aren’t accepting reservations yet.”
The hotel will offer its guests a contemporary African experience as its specialty restaurant with a seasonal concept menu and a rooftop bar for a breathtaking forested landscape view.
This development comes after the hospitality chain announced the closure of its Nairobi Hilton Hotel which was located in the central business district in December.
According to a director of the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) who spoke to The Standard, the agency has received a notice from Hilton noting they will cease operations on December 31.
[File image of Hilton Hotel located in Nairobi's CBD. Photo/Courtesy]
The director stated: “I can confirm that Hilton Hotel will shut down in December this year. We have received the notice from them. I’m not sure what has occasioned the decision, but I know business has not been looking up for the hotel, especially after Covid-19 struck.”
Despite the five-star facility’s closure being the second that has government links to its collapse after the Intercontinental Hotel closed business in August 2020, twenty-nine global hotel brands have declared their interest in opening branches in Kenya.
According to the 2021 report on the Hotel Chain Development Pipeline in Africa, the new hotels will bring to the market 4,354 new hotel rooms making Kenya the top six hotspots for new luxury hotels in the African continent.
Egypt leads the pack of countries with luxury hotels in Africa, followed by Nigeria, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Cape Verde, respectively.
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