A one bedroom apartment in Syokimau with a full kitchen and 24 hour security, near the airport and the SGR terminus. It suits longer stays and travellers who want their own front door. It does not suit anyone whose trip depends on walking out into the centre.
01What it is
The 1 Bedroom Apartment in Syokimau near Airport and SGR is a three star self-catering flat at Luxore Apartments on Chady Road, and the list leans domestic. You get a kitchen and kitchenette with a microwave, oven and refrigerator, a sofa bed, a TV, a safe, iron and board, and a private bathroom with shower, WC, towels and toiletries. The building adds free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security with security features, lifts, wheelchair access, housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning and room service. Breakfast appears, along with a bar and a smoking area. The thin places are predictable: no gym, no pool, no airport shuttle, and a single bedroom means a group has to use the sofa bed.
What that adds up to for someone staying at the 1 Bedroom Apartment in Syokimau near Airport and SGR is a functional base rather than a hotel. You cook, you wash, you park, you come and go through a guarded gate, and the kitchen and laundry are the reason to choose it over a room with a kettle. Syokimau sits in Greater Nairobi, and the facts are blunt about the quarter: trucks and handcarts and the city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, then closed and dark after that. So this suits a long stay, a family, an early SGR departure or anyone with business on this side. It does not suit a visitor who wants the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 7 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 Muthurwa and the east markets, 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 Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book this one directly if you want a self-catering apartment rather than a serviced room, and confirm the apartment rather than a hotel block. 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 the apartment?+
It is at Luxore Apartments on Chady Road in Syokimau, in Greater Nairobi. That is 14.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 178 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 13.13 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. This is a car or SGR base, not a walk into town.
Can I cook for myself?+
Yes. The apartment lists a kitchen and kitchenette with a microwave, oven and refrigerator, so self-catering works for a longer stay. There is also a bar and breakfast on the property if you do not want to cook every day, and housekeeping and laundry if you would rather not do it all yourself.
Is it safe to go out at night?+
The building has 24 hour security, security features, lifts, free parking and a concierge. The surrounding street does not carry the same promise: the facts describe it as closed, dark and not a place to be, mornings only. Treat evenings as inside the apartment or a ride elsewhere.
How do I check availability?+
Use app.impt.io to see the dates that are open for this apartment. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you arrange flights or the SGR. Confirm that you are booking the one bedroom apartment, not another unit in the same building.
