Broadwalk Residency is a three star apartment hotel on Ojijo Road, on the Greater Nairobi side of the centre, with kitchens in the units and a list that leans residential. The deciding question is whether you want to cook and settle in, or be inside the quarter.
01What it is
Broadwalk Residency lists apartments rather than rooms, and the facilities follow that: a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and bathrooms with both bath and shower, bidet, bathrobe and slippers. There is air conditioning, free wifi, a desk, a safe and a TV in the units. On the property side you get a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free car parking, lifts, a lounge, luggage storage, concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, housekeeping, breakfast, a market, a barber and beauty salon, a fitness center, sauna, steam room and spa, an outdoor pool with a kids pool and pool bar, banquet space, family rooms, non smoking rooms, wheelchair access, a shuttle service and a terrace. The list is thin exactly where a short leisure stay would feel it: there is no restaurant named beyond breakfast, no bar named beyond the pool bar, and the salon, spa and banquet are the only things resembling an evening.
Broadwalk Residency works as a base for people who want an apartment and a car park rather than a lobby and a doorman. Self caterers, families with children, and anyone staying long enough to need a washing machine will get more from it than a hotel room would give. It is 1.64 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 2.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is close enough to use the centre and far enough that you will not be in it. Book it if you want space and a pool and are content to travel in for the day. Do not book it if you want to step out of a lift into the middle of town.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 28 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Broadwalk Residency if you want an apartment with a kitchen and parking and do not mind being outside the centre; ask for a unit away from the lift if you are a light sleeper. 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 Broadwalk Residency?+
It sits on Ojijo Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central quarter. The two reference points are Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 2.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line, and Biashara Street and City Market at 1.64 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What do the rooms have in them?+
The units are apartments, so you get a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and a bathroom with bath, shower, bidet, bathrobe and slippers. There is air conditioning, free wifi, a desk, a safe and a TV. Cots are available for families.
Can I walk into the centre from here, or should I drive?+
It is on the edge rather than in the middle. The nearest quarter is 1.64 km away and Kenyatta Avenue is 2.12 km, which this site describes as 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. The after dark note for the area is that the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan transport for the evening.
How do I check availability and cancel if plans change?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io, and most rooms there can be cancelled free. The property itself runs a 24 hour front desk, so arrival outside normal hours can be arranged, but confirm the details on your booking rather than assuming.
