A three star apartment block on Mandera Rd in Greater Nairobi, with kitchens, a pool and free parking. The kitchen and the parking are what decide it: this suits a longer stay or a family moving around by car, not a short walkable city break.
01What it is
Dubai Styles Apartments lists self catering units, so the core of the offer is a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator, plus a lounge, a TV, and a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet, towels and toiletries. Wifi and internet access are listed, as are lifts, an iron and board, non smoking rooms and family rooms. Outside there is a garden, a terrace and an outdoor pool, and parking is free. Where the list thins out is everything else a hotel normally carries: Dubai Styles Apartments names no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer and no desk service.
What that adds up to for you depends on how you use a room. Dubai Styles Apartments gives you a base you can cook and wash in, with a pool for the end of the day and a car park that costs nothing, which is the shape of a stay of several nights rather than one. It does not give you a concierge, a kitchen you never touch, or a lobby to sit in. Take it if you are in Greater Nairobi for work or family and will have a vehicle. Leave it if you want to step out of a hotel and into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0327 facilities the supplier lists
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 Dubai Styles Apartments directly if the kitchen and the free parking are the parts you actually need, since they are what the property is built around. 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 Dubai Styles Apartments?+
It sits on Mandera Rd in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district rather than in it. The site puts it 3.96 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is not on your doorstep and you should plan how you cross that gap.
What do the apartments include?+
Each unit is self catering, with a kitchen or kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, lounge, TV, and a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet, towels and toiletries. Wifi, lifts, an iron and board, non smoking rooms and family rooms are listed, along with a garden, terrace, outdoor pool and free car parking.
How do I get into the centre from here?+
You cross a real gap. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, Biashara Street and City Market, is 3.34 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so most people staying this far out arrange their own transport rather than walk.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page. It shows what is open for your dates and lets you reserve a room at Dubai Styles Apartments without going through a separate enquiry. Confirmed bookings are cancellable free in most cases, and the terms are shown before you pay.
