A four star apartment block on George Padmore Road, in the new concrete on the ridge, built for the car and the conference room. The kitchenette and the free parking decide it: you cook for yourself and you drive yourself. If you want the centre on foot, this is the wrong side of it.
01What it is
Padmore Residences B1502 lists a kitchenette, a washing machine, an iron and board, and cleaning, so the unit works as a base for several nights rather than one. There is free wifi and internet access, a TV, a safe, a balcony, a patio and a terrace, family rooms, non smoking rooms, lifts, and twenty four hour security. Parking is free and there is a shuttle service. The list goes thin on food and on leisure: bars appear, and a golf course, which is the only recreation named, and no restaurant is listed.
What that adds up to at Padmore Residences B1502 is a self contained flat on a ridge where the streets were laid out for cars and conference traffic. You eat in, you wash your own clothes, you park on site, and you use the shuttle or drive for everything else. The street feel there is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. It suits people with a vehicle or a driver, families, and anyone staying long enough to want a kitchen. It does not suit anyone set on walking out to dinner or into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0326 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 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 Padmore Residences B1502 early if your dates fall in a conference week, because the whole ridge fills with the same kind of traveller. 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 Padmore Residences B1502?+
It sits on George Padmore Road in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is 3.7 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.08 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What is in the apartments?+
Each unit comes with a kitchenette, a washing machine, an iron and board, a safe, a TV, wifi, towels and toiletries. The building lists a balcony, a patio and a terrace, family rooms, non smoking rooms, lifts, free car parking, a shuttle service and twenty four hour security. No restaurant is listed, and no guest score is on file.
Can I stay here without a car?+
You can, but you will spend on rides. The address is on a ridge built around driving, and the evenings are quiet, with hotel bars and little else within reach. A shuttle service is listed, so ask what it covers before you commit. If you want to walk to dinner or into the centre, look nearer the middle.
How do I check availability?+
Availability, unit types and cancellation terms are shown when you search your dates through app.impt.io. Put in the nights you need and compare what comes back against the kitchenette, parking and family room options listed here. Nothing needs to be arranged directly with the property beforehand.
