A three star serviced apartment block on Muringa Road in Kilimani, on the ridge side of the city rather than in the centre. The thing that decides it for you is whether you have a car. If you do not, this address works against you every evening.
01What it is
Crystal Glow Serviced Apartment is a three star property on Muringa Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi, and it lists family rooms alongside non smoking rooms, free wifi and internet access, free car parking and parking more generally, and a garden. It also lists a golf course, which is a facility list from somewhere else, not a claim about what is on the property. The reliable list here is the practical one: rooms, parking, an internet connection, and a strip of garden. Everything else you would want in an apartment is unaccounted for, and the entry for food, laundry and reception cover is blank.
What Crystal Glow Serviced Apartment adds up to is a car based stay on a ridge in Kilimani, where the street is new concrete built for the car and the conference room. In the evening it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits a family with a car, or someone in Nairobi for meetings who wants parking and quiet and does not mind driving to dinner. It does not suit anyone arriving without a vehicle, or anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the city.
02The supplier's photographs
039 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 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 Crystal Glow Serviced Apartment if you are driving and want a quiet ridge address rather than a central one. 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 Crystal Glow Serviced Apartment?+
It is on Muringa Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi, rather than in the Central Business District. The site measures it at 5.07 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 64 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat it as a car address and plan your days around that.
What does the property actually list?+
Family rooms, non smoking rooms, free wifi and internet access, free car parking and parking, and a garden. The golf course on the list does not belong to this address. Nothing is said about meals, laundry or reception cover, so ask before you rely on any of them.
How do I get into the centre from here?+
You drive, or you take a ride. The site's own line for the area after dark is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Crystal Glow sits 3.52 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so Upper Hill is the closer errand and the CBD is the longer one.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page, which goes through app.impt.io. Rooms can be cancelled free, and the confirmed booking carries the site's CO2 and credit terms. There is no central reservations number on file for this property, so the link is the route.
