A four star hotel in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre, with a garden, sports courts and a shuttle. It suits longer stays, business trips and anyone who wants space and quiet rather than a base for walking the city.
01What it is
Redhill Cliff Complex is a four star property on Karura Kagongo in Greater Nairobi, at 10.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 137 minutes on foot in a direct line. The listed facilities lean towards active and long-stay use: archery, a basketball court, a fitness centre, bicycle hire, a picnic area, a terrace and a garden. Practical items include a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, housekeeping, luggage storage, a business centre, dry cleaning, a refrigerator, towels, water, shops, a smoking area and wheelchair access. The list is thin on the ordinary hotel core: there is no restaurant, bar, pool or airport transfer named, and a surcharge appears without any detail. That gap matters more than the sports equipment.
What Redhill Cliff Complex adds up to depends on why you are in Nairobi. The distance sets the shape of the stay: it is 10.36 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so this is not a base for walking the centre. The site describes the quarter as a daytime place where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them; from here you go into it for work and come back out. The sports facilities, garden, terrace and picnic area suit guests with time on their hands, and the business centre, front desk and parking suit guests with a car and a schedule. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre, and it does not suit a short city break built on being close to things. It is a workable choice if your days are structured elsewhere and the hotel is where you sleep, train and park.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 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 Biashara Street and City Market, 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 Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten quarters, the closest thing to a centre you can point to. You are outside the grid, in Greater Nairobi, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter you would be travelling to is the market quarter. 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. It is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. Best for 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. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book direct through the link below to confirm your dates and room type at Redhill Cliff Complex. 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 Redhill Cliff Complex?+
It is on Karura Kagongo in Greater Nairobi, well outside the central business district. The centre is 10.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 137 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a vehicle for anything in town, and note the property lists a shuttle service and free car parking.
What facilities does Redhill Cliff Complex list?+
The list covers archery, a basketball court, a fitness centre, bicycle hire, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area, a business centre, free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, housekeeping, luggage storage, dry cleaning, a refrigerator, towels, water, shops, a smoking area and wheelchair access. No restaurant, bar or pool is named.
Can I walk into the city centre from the hotel?+
No. Redhill Cliff Complex is 10.36 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That quarter is a daytime area where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so a car or the shuttle is the realistic way in and back.
How do I check availability at Redhill Cliff Complex?+
Use the booking link on this page to enter your dates and see what is open. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and bookings go through app.impt.io. If the dates you want are not showing, adjust the stay or ask the front desk about the shuttle and parking before confirming.
