A three star conference hotel on Muthaiti Avenue, out on the ridge where Greater Nairobi turns to new concrete. Its appeal is the car park, the meeting rooms and the room rate relative to the centre. If you want to walk out of a lobby into the city, this is the wrong address.
01What it is
Hotel Rio is a three star property on Muthaiti Avenue in Greater Nairobi. The list is built around working stays: a business centre, banquet and conference space, a twenty four hour front desk with express check in, free parking and a garage, free wifi, and a gymnasium. It adds a restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast in the room, a lounge, a night club, a terrace, laundry and dry cleaning, a barber and beauty salon, currency exchange and an ATM. The list runs thin on the ordinary things a longer stay needs: only the gymnasium covers exercise, and there is no pool and no spa.
For someone staying at Hotel Rio the shape of the day matters more than the fittings. The address is 2.5 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 32 minutes on foot in a direct line, so most trips out are by car or by the shuttle. The street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, so the hotel suits a traveller who arrives with a vehicle, a meeting or a reason to be in Greater Nairobi. It suits a family too, since babysitting is listed. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 28 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Hotel Rio if a car park, a conference room and a quiet ridge address matter to you more than a pavement you can step onto. 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 Hotel Rio in Nairobi?+
Hotel Rio sits on Muthaiti Avenue in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for cars and conference rooms. It is 1.84 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The central business district is not on the doorstep, and you should plan on a vehicle.
What does the hotel list for business travellers?+
A business centre, banquet and meeting space, a twenty four hour front desk, express check in, free wifi, and free parking with a garage. There is also a restaurant, a bar, room service and a gymnasium. What it does not list is a pool, a spa or anything much beyond the gymnasium for exercise.
What is it like around the hotel after dark?+
Safe and dull. Hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The property itself lists bars, a lounge and a night club, so the evening can be spent inside. Anything beyond that means arranging transport, since the streets around this ridge were laid out for cars rather than for people on foot.
What does a 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean here?+
It is a strong score across a large number of reviews, and it tells you the basics are handled consistently. It does not tell you the hotel is central, because it is not. Read it as a working three star property that most people who stay there are satisfied with.
