A 3 star business hotel on Ralph Bunche Road, in the new concrete ridge above the centre. Whether it suits you depends on one thing: you have a car, or you are content to take one whenever you want to leave. Upper Hill is built for work, not for wandering.
01What it is
Hadassah Hotel lists the full working set a Nairobi business hotel is expected to have: 24 hour front desk and security, business centre, express check in, concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, free wifi, free car parking with garage and valet parking, and lifts. There are family rooms, non smoking rooms, a restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast in room, lounge, terrace, garden, chapel, banquet space and a barber and beauty salon. Rooms carry the usual basics: bathroom, shower, WC, towels, toiletries, slippers, desk, TV, telephone, safe, refrigerator and iron and board. The list is thin where it matters for a leisure stay: no pool, and it names a golf course, which is not on this site.
What this adds up to is a car-first conference base. Hadassah Hotel sits 0.56 km from the centre of Upper Hill and Community, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room, 2.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line. After dark there is little to walk to: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Suit a delegate, a patient's family, or anyone whose day is booked elsewhere. Do not book it if you want to step out of the lobby into the city.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 22 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Upper Hill and Community
Upper Hill and Community sits on the western ridge, not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. The street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits people here to work and people who want their evening contained. It does not suit anyone expecting street life outside the door. The streets are built for the car and the conference room, so plan to move by vehicle once the working day ends.
Read the whole of Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Hadassah Hotel if your days are mapped out and the hotel is a base rather than a destination. 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 Hadassah Hotel in Nairobi?+
On Ralph Bunche Road in Upper Hill, 0.56 km from the centre of Upper Hill and Community and 2.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is a ridge district of offices, hospitals and conference venues rather than a sightseeing quarter.
What facilities does Hadassah Hotel have?+
Free wifi, free car parking with garage and valet parking, 24 hour front desk and security, business centre, restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast in room, laundry and dry cleaning, family and non smoking rooms, garden, terrace, lounge, chapel and banquet space. No pool appears on the list.
Can I walk from Hadassah Hotel into central Nairobi?+
Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 2.23 km from the hotel, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line, but Upper Hill is built for the car and conference room, and after dark it is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Take a car unless you know the route.
What does the 4.1 guest score mean?+
It is 4.1 out of 5 from 521 reviews, a solid rather than flawless record for a 3 star. Read it as a dependable working hotel: the listed services and the Upper Hill address do the work, not charm or setting, so judge it on whether that location fits your day.
