Blossom Apartment is a 3 star serviced block in Nyayo Estate Embakasi, well out in Greater Nairobi, with a garden, a spa, a fitness center and shops on site. The deciding question is the hour you mean to keep, because the street runs on the morning trade and shuts.
01What it is
Blossom Apartment lists the practical machinery of a long stay: each unit has a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV, so you can feed yourself instead of eating out twice a day. The building adds a business center, express check in, dry cleaning, free car parking, lifts and a garden with a picnic area. For errands there is an ATM, a supermarket, a gift shop and a barber and beauty salon on site. The thin part is the rest: a barber, a spa and a fitness center are sharp for some and beside the point for others.
Put together, Blossom Apartment is a base for a working stay in the eastern part of Greater Nairobi, and the address at Nyayo Estate Embakasi Johari Ave points at the produce trade around Muthurwa and the east markets rather than at the centre. It suits someone with business at the markets, at the airport side or in Embakasi itself. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of a lobby into town.
02The supplier's photographs
0318 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 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 Blossom Apartment when your work sits on the eastern side of Greater Nairobi and you want an apartment rather than a room. 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 Blossom Apartment?+
The address is Nyayo Estate Embakasi Johari Ave, in the eastern part of Greater Nairobi, not in the centre. For scale, the property sits 9.98 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 125 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is well outside the central business district.
Is Blossom Apartment good for the markets?+
Yes, that is the sensible reason to stay here. It sits 8.75 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. You are in the vegetable trade zone rather than in the middle of the city, so heading out at dawn is the point.
What is around Blossom Apartment at night?+
Not much. The street here is closed, dark and not a place to be once the day trade ends, and mornings only is the honest summary. Plan to eat, move and meet people elsewhere in the evening, and treat the apartment as somewhere to sleep and work.
How do I check a room at Blossom Apartment?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where you see which rooms can be cancelled free and confirm a booking from there. The property runs express check in, and free car parking is listed, so say what you need when you book. Ask about any surcharge before you confirm.
