Soluxe Club Nairobi is a three star hotel on Apple Cross Rd, west of the centre, on new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is 5.26 km from Upper Hill and Community, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Suits drivers, delegates and families with their own transport; not walkers.
01What it is
Soluxe Club Nairobi lists the full apparatus of a conference hotel: banquet and business centre, restaurant and bar, buffet and breakfast, lunch, breakfast in room, room service, free wifi and internet access. There is a fitness centre and gymnasium, free car parking with valet parking, car rental service, laundry, dry cleaning, cleaning and housekeeping. Rooms carry air conditioning, carpeted floors, TV, safe, hairdryer, iron and board, shower, WC, slippers and water; non smoking rooms and family rooms exist. The list is thin on detail: it names facilities but not the size of rooms, the state of the gym, or which rooms face what.
What that adds up to is a hotel built around arrival by car and days spent in meeting rooms, not around the street. Soluxe Club Nairobi is 5.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 74 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the ridge it sits on is new concrete built for exactly this. Suits delegates, drivers and families with their own transport, and anyone who wants a lift, a gym and a parked car. Does not suit walkers, anyone hoping to step out into the centre, or anyone who wants the hotel to be the quarter.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 10 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book directly if you want the cancellation flexibility and the room you actually chose. 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 exactly is Soluxe Club Nairobi?+
It is on Apple Cross Rd in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is 5.26 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so it sits outside the centre you would otherwise walk.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
The list covers restaurant and bar, banquet and business centre, buffet and breakfast, lunch, room service and free wifi. There is a fitness centre and gymnasium, free car parking with valet parking, car rental, laundry and dry cleaning. Rooms have air conditioning, TV, safe, shower, hairdryer and iron and board.
Can I walk into the city centre from here?+
Not comfortably. The hotel is 5.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 74 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street is built for the car and the conference room, and after dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Plan on driving or being driven.
What does the guest score tell me?+
It sits at 4.3 out of 5 from 186 reviews, which is a solid rather than exceptional showing for a three star property. Treat it as a sign that the basics land, not as proof of any particular standard in the rooms, the gym or the restaurant, none of which the score breaks down.
