A 3 star hotel on Punda Milia Cresent in South C, Greater Nairobi, with free parking, a restaurant, a bar and a gym. The distance from the centre is what decides it: fine by car, poor on foot, and the surroundings go dark after the working day.
01What it is
Razana Hotel lists the basics of a working hotel in Greater Nairobi: 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, lifts, air conditioning in the rooms and a fan, non smoking rooms and wheelchair access. Rooms come with a desk, a safe, a minibar, a refrigerator, a TV, a telephone, a hairdryer, an iron and board, a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet, towels and toiletries. There is a restaurant, a bar, a lounge, a terrace, a fitness centre, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, breakfast in room, buffet, lunch and special diets.
Razana Hotel also takes bookings for a cot, family rooms and banquet space, so it handles families and events as well as single travellers. Read the list honestly and it is wide in the ordinary ways and thin where you might want detail: no airport transfer is listed, no shuttle into the centre, no business centre and no conference rooms beyond the banquet space. The 4.5 out of 5 from 712 reviews tells you most guests are content with what the hotel itself does. Suits drivers, families and anyone whose business is in the industrial streets around it. Does not suit anyone planning to walk into the centre for dinner or come back late without a car.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 15 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 The Railway Quarter. They sit just outside the ten quarters this site covers, on the edge of the centre, and The Railway Quarter is only the nearest of the ten. What that means in practice is that you are in the wider city, not in the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The nearest quarter is the southern edge of the centre: wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift, and the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue; the quarter is 0.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 12 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is best for the museum, and for understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches. Daylight only, and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book Razana Hotel if the car is part of the plan, because the parking is free and the centre is not walkable from here. 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 Razana Hotel in Nairobi?+
It is on Punda Milia Cresent in South C, part of Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It sits 2.51 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 3.26 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What facilities does Razana Hotel have?+
The list includes free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk and security, air conditioning, a restaurant, a bar, a lounge, a terrace, a fitness centre, room service, laundry, dry cleaning and family rooms. Rooms have a desk, safe, minibar, refrigerator, TV, telephone and a private bathroom.
Can I walk from Razana Hotel to the city centre?+
It is possible on the direct line but not comfortable. The streets between here and the centre are industrial and unlit in stretches, and the site's own note on the area is daylight only, and a car back. Plan on driving or taking a car in.
What does the 4.5 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average from 712 reviews, which is a large enough sample to be worth reading as a general signal. It suggests the hotel does the ordinary things well: rooms, security, parking and service. It does not tell you anything about the streets around it.
