A five star hotel on Arboretum Road, north of the centre and away from its noise. The room list is the thing that decides it: kitchenettes, fridges and microwaves, so a longer stay can feed itself. Breakfast in room and a spa and pool cover the rest.
01What it is
The Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence Nairobi Arboretum lists 5 star facilities with a clear tilt to longer stays: kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, sink, iron and board, and laundry and dry cleaning service. Rooms come with air conditioning, balcony, bath, bathrobe, slippers, toiletries, hairdryer, safe, TV, telephone, desk and minibar, with non smoking rooms and wheelchair accessible rooms. For eating and meeting there is a restaurant, breakfast in room and buffet, lunch, room service, special diets, banquet space, business center, concierge and lounge. Free wifi and free car parking with a garage are listed. The spa, sauna, steam room, massage, gymnasium, fitness center, outdoor pool and swimming pool, garden, terrace and picnic area sit alongside 24 hour security, ATM and currency exchange. External tours, airport transfers and anything beyond shuttle service are not listed, so those are arranged elsewhere.
For a guest at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence Nairobi Arboretum the sum is a self contained five star property with enough kitchen equipment to skip hotel meals. The quoted distances put it 2.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.58 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. With free parking and shuttle service, going into the centre is a deliberate trip, not a step out of the door, and the centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It suits longer stays and business travellers who want quiet, a pool and a kitchenette. It does not suit anyone who wants to be in the middle of the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 40 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one if you want the kitchenette and pool and are content to shuttle into the centre rather than walk out into it. 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 the Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence Nairobi Arboretum?+
It sits on Arboretum Road in Greater Nairobi, 2.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it outside the centre proper, above it and away from the business quarter.
Does it work for a longer stay rather than one night?+
Yes. The listed rooms include kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator and sink, plus laundry and dry cleaning service. Breakfast, lunch, room service and special diets cover the days you do not want to cook, so a week or more is practical here.
What does the drive into the centre involve?+
It is a short trip rather than a walk, and the hotel lists a shuttle service and free car parking with a garage. Note that Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, is a daytime area where the halls shut in the late afternoon.
How do I check availability and book?+
Use app.impt.io, which is where rooms for this property are booked and where free cancellation on most rooms is shown. Availability and the exact room type you want are confirmed at the point of booking rather than from this page.
