A one bedroom apartment on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, with a full kitchen, a washing machine and free parking, in a quarter built for the car and the conference room. It decides on how you are getting around, not on the room.
01What it is
Cozy one bedroomed apartment home away from home in Nairobi is a four star serviced apartment, and the list is built around staying in rather than passing through. There is a kitchen and a kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a toaster, coffee, and a washing machine with laundry service behind it. The bath comes with a shower, toiletries, towels, sheets and slippers. You get free wifi, a desk, a TV, an iron and board, a safe, a lift, and an apartment that is carpeted and non smoking. Outside there is a balcony and a terrace, an outdoor pool, a smoking area, and parking that costs nothing. The list is thin on two things: there is no restaurant or room service named, so meals are yours to make, and no backup power or water storage, which matters on a ridge where the supply is not guaranteed.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Cozy one bedroomed apartment home away from home in Nairobi is a base for a longer stay, not a night. The kitchen and the washing machine mean you are not eating out or sending clothes away every day, and the car parking plus the pool mean the apartment works as somewhere to come back to rather than somewhere to be. It suits people who have a reason to be in Greater Nairobi and their own transport: a posting, a project, a family visit, a conference. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre. The site's own line about the quarter is that this is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Take that at face value.
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
Book this one early if your dates are fixed, because a single apartment is a single apartment. 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 the apartment?+
On Astoria Mbaazi Road, in Greater Nairobi. It sits 6.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 84 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 5.28 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on a car.
What is in the apartment?+
A full kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, a bath with shower, towels, sheets and toiletries, free wifi, a desk, a TV, an iron and board and a safe. The building adds a lift, a balcony, a terrace, an outdoor pool and free car parking.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
Not usefully. The quarter is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. If your days are in the centre, this is the wrong base. If your days are here, it is the right one.
How do I check availability?+
Availability is shown when you search your dates through app.impt.io, and the booking is confirmed there. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so if your plans are still moving you can hold the apartment and release it later without paying for the change.
