A serviced one bedroom apartment in a residential block on Wood Avenue, Kilimani, with a pool, a balcony, lifts and parking. It suits someone staying a few days who wants space and a kitchen and does not mind being outside the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk to meetings on Kenyatta Avenue.
01What it is
1 Bedroom Apartment Staroot Residency Kilimani is a one bedroom unit in Block B of Staroot Residency, on Wood Avenue off Argwings Kodhek Road. It is listed as a four star property. The facilities list is mostly practical: free wifi, free car parking with further parking, a safe in the apartment, laundry service, cleaning, and lifts to the first floor. It also lists a balcony and an outdoor pool. The list is thin on what the apartment itself contains: there is no detail on the kitchen, the bed, the bathroom or whether the living space is separate, and no floor plan is given.
What that adds up to is a self-contained base in a residential part of the north of the city, with the things you need for a few days rather than a night: laundry, cleaning and a car park. 1 Bedroom Apartment Staroot Residency Kilimani suits someone with a car or a driver, or someone whose work is in this northern corridor and not in the centre. It does not suit a visitor who wants the Central Business District on foot, or one who wants a hotel with staff on hand around the clock.
02The supplier's photographs
0310 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this apartment if you want a full one bedroom unit in Kilimani with a car park rather than a room in 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 exactly is 1 Bedroom Apartment Staroot Residency Kilimani?+
It is on Wood Avenue off Argwings Kodhek Road, in Kilimani, in the Block B building of Staroot Residency. The unit is on the first floor. It sits 2.54 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 3.99 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the apartment actually list?+
Free wifi, free car parking plus further parking, a safe, laundry service, cleaning, lifts, a balcony and an outdoor pool, and it is listed as four star. There is no detail on the kitchen, the bed, the bathroom or the room layout, so treat the internal fittings as unconfirmed until you ask.
Can you walk from here into the Central Business District?+
The distance to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 3.99 km in a direct line, which the site gives as 50 minutes on foot. That is a long walk each way, and the streets here were built for cars and conference traffic. Most people staying in Kilimani drive or take a ride into the centre rather than walk.
How do you check whether the apartment is free?+
Check the booking page for the dates you want, since a single apartment is the whole inventory and it can only be held for one stay at a time. There is no guest score on file for this property, so the facilities list and the location are what you have to judge it on.
