A four star hotel on Spring Valley Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the quarter. The listed facilities cover the practical side, parking, a pool and a shuttle. What decides it is the distance: you are not staying in the centre, so a car or the shuttle is the shape of your day.
01What it is
Elsie Ridge is a four star hotel on Spring Valley Rd in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are mostly the working kind: 24 hour front desk, business center, lifts, laundry service, dry cleaning service, free wifi, and car parking, both free and general. There are two pools, one outdoor and one a kids pool, a lounge, shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access. The list says nothing about restaurants, bars or gyms, so treat those as unknown rather than promised.
For a stay, Elsie Ridge adds up to a hotel built around arriving by car and leaving by car. Free parking and a shuttle service make that workable, and the front desk runs around the clock. It suits business travellers and families with a vehicle who want the centre at a distance. It does not suit anyone planning to walk into the quarter, because this is not in it.
02The supplier's photographs
0313 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Elsie Ridge if you want a four star base in Greater Nairobi and have your own transport or will use the shuttle, and skip it if you need to be inside the quarter. 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 Elsie Ridge?+
Elsie Ridge is on Spring Valley Rd in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area. It is 5.91 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 74 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 5.35 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Elsie Ridge offer?+
The listed facilities include a 24 hour front desk, business center, lifts, laundry service, dry cleaning service, free wifi and car parking. There is an outdoor pool and a kids pool, a lounge, shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access. The list names no restaurant, bar or gym.
What is getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi like?+
It is a separate trip rather than a walk. The centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan on a vehicle or the hotel shuttle for anything in the evening, and for coming back.
How do I check availability at Elsie Ridge?+
Use the booking link on this page to see open rooms and dates. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. If the dates you want are not showing, try shifting them before writing the property off.
