A four star hotel on Runda Crescent in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and built around a garden, a pool and a spa. Whether it suits you comes down to one thing: you need a car, and you need to be in the north of the city.
01What it is
The Bedelle lists a full four star set. Rooms come with air conditioning, balcony, bath, bathrobe, bidet, hairdryer, minibar, refrigerator, safe, sofa bed and work desk; some have a kitchen. Outside the room there is an outdoor pool, a spa, a jacuzzi, a garden, a terrace, a patio and a lounge. Business and practical needs are covered by a business center, banquet space, concierge, currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, free wifi and free car parking. The list is thinner on anything that ties the hotel to the centre: no gym appears, smoking is confined to a smoking area, and the food offering is a restaurant, a bar, lunch, breakfast in room and room service, with special diets available, so you are eating in unless you drive out.
The Bedelle sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the quarter itself, on Runda Crescent, 9.25 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 116 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8.54 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That decides the stay. It suits someone with a car or a driver who wants space, a pool and a quiet northern address, and it does not suit anyone planning to walk to meetings, to the Globe or anywhere central. The street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 25 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
The Bedelle is a northern Nairobi base where the booking decision is really about how you will get around, so sort the car first and the room second. 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 Bedelle in Nairobi?+
It is on No. 551 Runda Crescent, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 9.25 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 116 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8.54 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does The Bedelle list?+
The four star list includes air conditioning, balcony, bath, bathrobe, minibar, refrigerator, safe, desk, free wifi and free car parking, plus an outdoor pool, spa, jacuzzi, garden, terrace and lounge. There is a business center, banquet space, concierge, currency exchange, laundry, dry cleaning and a restaurant with a bar.
Is The Bedelle walking distance from the centre?+
No. It sits in Greater Nairobi, well outside the central quarter, and the surroundings are a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does. After dark this is a transport edge rather than an evening one. Cross it by car, and plan on driving in and out.
What does the guest score mean?+
The Bedelle scores 4.3 out of 5 from 384 reviews. Read that as a solid four star result rather than a perfect one: most guests come away satisfied, and the reviews are numerous enough to be worth weighing. It tells you nothing about how quiet or how far out the hotel feels, which is the point to check.
