A four star one bedroom apartment on Othaya Road in Kileleshwa, with a gym and a heated pool. The thing that decides it for you is the car. This is a ridge quarter built for driving, not for walking into the centre.
01What it is
Chic Kileleshwa 1 bedroomed with Gym and Heated Pool is a serviced apartment at 36 Othaya Road, rated four star, and it lists a full working kitchen: refrigerator, microwave, coffee, a washing machine, an iron and board, and cleaning. The building lists lifts, free car parking, a safe, free wifi and internet access, 24 hour security with security features and smoke detectors, non smoking rooms, a lounge and a games room with darts and table tennis. There is a heated indoor pool with a pool bar, and a gym. The thin part is food and drink: breakfast and a minibar are listed, but no restaurant and no bar beyond the pool bar, so most evenings you eat elsewhere.
For someone staying here, Chic Kileleshwa 1 bedroomed with Gym and Heated Pool works as a base for a longer stay or a work trip where you have a car and want a kitchen, a washing machine and somewhere to swim indoors at the end of the day. It sits 3.98 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the middle of the Central Business District, and it does not suit a short stay built around meetings in the centre, because the address assumes you drive to all of it. If your Nairobi is the downtown grid, book downtown.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 1 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Booking this apartment means booking a specific building on Othaya Road rather than a room type, so confirm the apartment and the dates you want before you plan around them. 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 this apartment in Nairobi?+
It is at 36 Othaya Road, in Kileleshwa, on the ridge west of the centre. The site measures it as 5.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 65 minutes on foot in a direct line. In practice you arrive by car.
What does the property actually list?+
A one bedroom apartment with a kitchen, refrigerator, microwave, washing machine, iron and board, coffee, a lounge, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, lifts, non smoking rooms, a safe, an indoor heated pool with a pool bar, a gym and a games room with darts and table tennis.
What is it like getting into the Central Business District from here?+
This is Greater Nairobi, not the centre. It lies 3.98 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
How do I check availability and dates?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where the apartment and the dates you want are confirmed. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold dates while you arrange the rest of the trip.
