The beginning
A hotel on Okigwe Road
Knockout International Hotel opened its doors on #224 Okigwe Road, Ama Wire — in downtown Owerri — with a simple conviction: Owerri deserved a hotel that matched the ambition of the city it was built for.
About the hotel
Built in the heart of Owerri,for the people who live it
Knockout International Hotel is a five-star address on Okigwe Road in Ama Wire, in downtown Owerri — where twenty-eight rooms and suites, four restaurants and bars, a spa, a gym, a nightclub and Owerri's grandest ballroom all sit under one roof. Come for a night. Stay for the reason everyone keeps coming back.
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Rooms & Suites
3
Floors of calm
7
Food & drink spots
24/7
Concierge & room service
In every one of our 28 rooms
A private safety deposit box in every room
Passports, jewellery, cash, documents and valuables — it goes in the safe in your room, not in a hotel safe in a corridor. Each box is opened with your own six-digit code, and the code is cleared the moment you check out. You never inherit the last guest's code, and the next guest never inherits yours. Nothing is ever left standing open between stays.
Our story
From one addressto a full house
Owerri is a city that builds quickly and expects the best of itself. It is the commercial capital of Imo State, a centre for trade, hospitality and celebration that has outgrown its old reputation for being merely a crossroads. And yet the hotels here had not yet caught up with the ambition of the streets.
Knockout International Hotel was built to close that gap. Not as a monument — as a place that actually works. Somewhere you can take a business call at seven in the morning, bring your mother to dinner, treat your partner on a Saturday, and still be in the same building for the event that evening. Everything under one roof, and the roof is doing rather well.
What we set out to prove was simple: that five-star service in Owerri should mean warmth, not intimidation. That a guest should be known, remembered and looked after — whether they are here for two nights or twenty.
How we grew
A short history of getting better
Growing upward
Three floors, twenty-eight keys
What started as a single address grew into three floors of rooms and suites, a rooftop that now looks across the whole of the city, and four restaurants and bars under one roof.
The full house
Rest, nightlife, wellness, celebration
The hotel stopped being only a place to sleep. Kempers Night Club, Oyoko Bar, The Pool House, the gym and KIHT Beauty Spa made it a destination in its own right — somewhere people come to spend an entire day and night.
Today
The Heart of Owerri
Twenty-eight rooms — eighteen numbered and ten named suites — a grand ballroom, four dining rooms, a spa, a nightclub and a 24-hour team — minutes from Imo State Secretariat and roughly thirty-five minutes from Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport. Book direct, pay by transfer, and arrive as a guest rather than a customer.
What we stand for
Five promises weactually keep
Hospitality is not a mood. It is a set of small decisions, made consistently, by every member of staff, on every shift. These are the four we make hardest.
See the rooms01
Warmth, without the theatre
Five-star should feel effortless. Our staff learn your name on day one and your preference by day two, and we never make you ask twice for the same thing.
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Imo, at the centre
Our menu, our produce and our excursions start here — Owerri's markets, the Mbari art houses, Amala forest and the state museum, all with a private guide.
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Direct rates, honest billing
Book direct and the rate you see is the rate you pay. Settle by bank transfer and we verify it personally before you arrive.
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Quiet by design
Thick walls, blackout drapes, low light and a deep bed. The loudest thing about a Knockout room is how quickly you stop noticing the world outside it.
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Your valuables stay yours
Every room has its own private safety deposit box with a personal six-digit code — so the things you cannot replace travel and stay with you, and the code is reset before anyone else checks in.
Under one roof
Everything the hotelis actually made of
Ten distinct places to eat, drink, sweat, soak, dance and gather — all within a few seconds of each other. No car, no traffic, no waiting.
Accommodation
Three floors, twenty-eight sleeping rooms — eighteen numbered rooms and ten named suites, each one a quiet room of your own — from the Standard, Superior and Deluxe rooms through the ten individually named suites, from the AKAJIAKU to the GOVERNOR. Every single one has its own private safety deposit box.
Osu Dining
Contemporary Nigerian cooking — breakfast, lunch and dinner built on the produce of the East, plated for a modern table.
Auro Rooftop
Modern European dining under the stars, with a champagne terrace high above the city and Owerri spread out beneath it.
Lobby Lounge
Afternoon tea, cocktails and live jazz — the slow centre of the hotel, and the easiest place in Owerri to be introduced to someone new.
The Pool House
Grill and juices all day beside the water, with golden-hour tables that book out fast in the dry season.
KIHT Beauty Spa
Massage, facials, chemical peels and Woods Lamp therapy in a private clinical setting — the calmest room in the building.
Kempers Night Club
A late room with a late crowd, running well past the point where Owerri's evenings usually end.
Oyoko Bar & Old Brigade Kingdom Bar
Two bars, two moods — one for the polished hour before dinner, one for the stories that run long after it.
Igwebuike Congress & Conference Hall
Boardrooms, halls and Owerri's grandest ballroom, with 24-hour concierge and chauffeured transfers across the business district.
Gym
A properly equipped floor for those who travel trained, open through the hours you are actually awake.
Come and see it
The room isonly the beginning
The best way to understand a hotel is to sleep in it — but the second best is to eat here, drink here and let us show you what five-star actually means in Owerri. Reserve a night, settle by bank transfer, and we will have your room ready and your verification done before you land.
KNOCKOUT International Hotel
#224 Okigwe Road, Ama Wire, Owerri, Imo State
Downtown Owerri
+234 813 318 7075·info@knockouthotelsowerri.com
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