A 3 star apartment hotel out on Church Road in Greater Nairobi, with kitchens, a pool and a gym on the list. The thing that decides it is the address: you are outside the centre, and this is a daytime quarter whose halls shut in the late afternoon.
01What it is
CySuites Apartment Hotel lists what a longer stay needs: kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board. Rooms come carpeted with bath, shower, bidet, bathrobe, slippers, hairdryer and toiletries, plus TV, telephone, safe and alarm clock. There is free wifi, a 24 hour front desk, housekeeping, laundry, luggage storage and free car parking with a garage. Food runs breakfast, lunch, buffet, restaurant, bar and snack bar, with special diets noted. For leisure it lists an outdoor pool, kids pool, fitness center, sauna, steam room, spa and jacuzzi. Business and events get a business center, banquet space, copy and concierge.
Where the CySuites Apartment Hotel list thins out is atmosphere: a pool, a spa and a gym, but nothing that makes the building itself a place to spend an evening, and the street outside is not one either. What it does offer is a working base: self catering, parking, security, a desk and a shuttle. It suits people staying several days who want to cook and drive, and who treat the centre as somewhere to go rather than somewhere to be. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot, or a night out at the door.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 31 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
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book CySuites Apartment Hotel if you want a kitchen and parking more than you want to be in the centre. 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 CySuites Apartment Hotel?+
It is on Church Road in Greater Nairobi, 4.53 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line. It sits outside the centre rather than in it, so plan on a vehicle for getting in and out.
What does the hotel list for a longer stay?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster, plus washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping and laundry. Rooms have bath or shower, toiletries, TV, telephone and safe, with free wifi, free car parking and a 24 hour front desk.
What is getting into the centre like from here?+
The property is 3.91 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The surrounding streets are a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so arrange the return trip.
What does the guest score mean?+
It has a score of 4.2 out of 5 from 119 reviews. That is a solid record across a decent number of stays, not a perfect one. Read it as a well used apartment hotel that generally delivers, and check recent comments for what matters to you.
