A home away from home is a three star address on Limuru Rd, out on the northern edge of Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The list is thin but practical: free wifi, free car parking, lifts, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, an ATM and a smoking area. If you have a car and no need to be central, it works.
01What it is
A home away from home lists free wifi, free car parking, lifts, housekeeping, a laundry service, dry cleaning, an ATM and a smoking area. That is the whole of it. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym on the list, no airport transfer and no meeting space. The three star rating matches the shape of it: a working address rather than a destination one. The parking and the wifi are the two facilities most people will actually use here.
What that adds up to is a place that suits someone arriving by car and leaving by car. A home away from home sits on Limuru Rd, 10.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 128 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.69 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street itself is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and you cross it by car. Book this if you want parking and quiet housekeeping and will not depend on walking anywhere. Do not book it if you want the centre on foot or an evening at the door.
02The supplier's photographs
038 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 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
Book A home away from home directly if you are arriving with a car and want the parking and the wifi confirmed in writing before you travel. 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 A home away from home?+
It sits on Limuru Rd in Greater Nairobi, on the northern side of the city rather than in the Central Business District. The site records it as 9.69 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so treat it as a base with its own neighbourhood rather than a central one.
What does A home away from home actually provide?+
The listed facilities are free wifi, free car parking, lifts, housekeeping, laundry service, dry cleaning, an ATM and a smoking area, at a three star rating. There is no restaurant, bar or gym on the list, so plan your meals elsewhere. Parking is the facility most guests will use.
Can I walk from A home away from home into the centre?+
The site gives the distance as 10.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 128 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a long direct line on a road with a flyover and a roundabout, and the area after dark is a transport edge rather than an evening one. Go by car.
How do I check whether A home away from home has rooms?+
Availability is checked through the booking link on this page rather than over the phone. Look for your dates and see what the calendar returns. The property lists free wifi, free car parking, lifts and housekeeping, so if you need parking, confirm that at the point of booking through the link.
