The Radix Hotel is a 3 star property on Langata Rd, away from the centre and built around a pool, conference space and family rooms. The distance decides it: you need a car or a shuttle for anything in the city.
01What it is
The Radix Hotel lists the full apparatus of a conference and family property: banquet and business centre, restaurant, bars, breakfast and buffet, lunch, room service, a chapel, a playground and an outdoor pool with a garden and terrace. Rooms come with air conditioning, bath or shower, bathrobe, slippers, toiletries, desk, safe, TV and telephone. There is free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, laundry, luggage storage, currency exchange and wheelchair access. The list is thin on nothing much, but it is a compound list: everything is on site, because off site there is little.
The Radix Hotel sits on Langata Rd, which is 9.91 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 124 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the whole question. You get a pool, free parking, a playground, a shuttle service and a guarded gate, and in exchange you give up the quarter. The CBD is a working day out, and after dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. It suits families with a car, conference groups and anyone whose business is south of the centre. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk to the city's restaurants and bars.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 22 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 a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book the Radix if your trip is built around the pool, the parking and the conference rooms rather than the centre. 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 Radix Hotel in Nairobi?+
It is on Langata Rd in Greater Nairobi, 8.02 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is not in the CBD, so plan on a car or the shuttle service for anything central.
What does The Radix Hotel have for families?+
Family rooms, a playground, babysitting service, an outdoor pool, a garden and a restaurant with a buffet and special diets. The gate is guarded around the clock. It is set up for children, which is unusual for a property this close to the conference belt.
How do I get into the centre from The Radix Hotel?+
The hotel lists a shuttle service, and there is free car parking if you drive. The centre is 9.91 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 124 minutes on foot in a direct line. Walking is not the plan here.
What does the 4.5 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is the average of 268 reviews, so it reflects a lot of stays rather than a handful. Treat it as a sign that the property does what it lists. It says nothing about the location, which is the thing you have to weigh yourself.
