A three star resort on Magadi Road in Greater Nairobi, well out from the centre. It suits people with a car or a driver, or a conference to sit through, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the gate into town. Fitness, pool, spa and a floodlit driving range fill the days.
01What it is
Longview Luxury Resort lists a wide, resort shaped set of facilities: outdoor and indoor swimming pool, spa, fitness center and a floodlit driving range, plus garden, picnic area and lounge. Eating and drinking are covered by restaurant, cafe and breakfast. Practical things are there too: 24 hour front desk, bell boy, concierge, laundry, lifts, luggage storage, safe, free wifi and free car parking, with coach parking and a meeting room for groups. The list is thin on anything for a pedestrian: no kitchen in the room, no shop, no nightlife of its own beyond the lounge.
What it adds up to is a compound you stay inside. Longview Luxury Resort sits 9.22 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark the area is safe and dull, hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Suit a driver, a family with a car, or a delegate whose day happens on site. Do not book it expecting the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0330 facilities the supplier lists
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 of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is 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. 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Longview Luxury Resort directly here and you get the cancellation terms printed before you pay. 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 Longview Luxury Resort?+
It is on Magadi Road in Greater Nairobi, at Longview Suites Magadi Road. The site measures it 11.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 139 minutes on foot in a direct line. In practice you come by car or taxi.
What facilities does it have?+
A spa, fitness center, pool, garden, picnic area and a floodlit driving range, with restaurant, cafe, breakfast, lounge, meeting room, free wifi and free parking. Reception is 24 hour, with concierge, lift and laundry. There is no in room kitchen.
Can you walk into the centre from there?+
Not comfortably. It sits well outside the central business district, and the area around it is built for the car. The nearest quarter this site covers is Upper Hill and Community, which is still a drive. Plan on taxis or a hotel shuttle.
How do you check availability?+
Use the booking section on this page, which runs through app.impt.io. It shows which rooms are open for your dates and the cancellation terms before you commit. There are no rates printed on this site; the booking page carries the current ones.
