A three star apartment homestay on Chady Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre and nearest to the east markets quarter. It suits self caterers who want a kitchen, parking and quiet, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of a lobby into the Central Business District.
01What it is
Easy Jkia Homestay is a three star apartment property on Chady Rd in Greater Nairobi. The list runs to apartments with a kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, bath and shower, plus a balcony, terrace and lounge. Practical items a visitor would care about are free wifi, free car parking, a garage, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry service, iron and board, family rooms, non smoking rooms and wheelchair access. Car rental and shuttle service are both listed, useful when the property sits this far out. The list is thin on food and drink: bars and a banquet facility are named, but no restaurant, no breakfast and no meals are, and a kitchen is the only real answer.
For someone staying here, Easy Jkia Homestay adds up to a self contained base rather than a hotel you drift through. You cook in the apartment, you park on site, and you treat the front desk and shuttle as the way in and out. The location decides everything. Easy Jkia Homestay is 14.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 176 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 12.89 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the centre is a vehicle trip, not a stroll. It suits families and longer stays with a car who want space and a kitchen, and it does not suit anyone here for the CBD on foot, or anyone who wants a bar and a restaurant downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 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 Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Booking Easy Jkia Homestay works best if you first decide how you will cover the distance into the centre, because the 24 hour front desk and shuttle service are the parts you will lean on. 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 Easy Jkia Homestay?+
It is on Chady Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the Central Business District. The site's own figures put it 14.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 176 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is nearest to Muthurwa and the east markets quarter rather than to the middle of town.
What does Easy Jkia Homestay have in the apartments?+
The apartments list a kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, bath, shower, toiletries, towels, slippers, a desk, a fan and a TV, with a balcony or terrace and a lounge in the property. Free wifi, free car parking and a garage are also listed for anyone arriving with a vehicle.
Is Easy Jkia Homestay good for the Central Business District?+
Only if you accept a vehicle trip each time. The property sits in Greater Nairobi, well away from the centre, and the area is described as mornings only, with closed, dark streets after dark that are not a place to be. Plan your days around that and it works; expect to walk into town and it does not.
How do I check availability for Easy Jkia Homestay?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, which handles the booking for this property. Check your dates against the apartment types on file, since family rooms and wheelchair accessible rooms are limited categories rather than the whole property, and confirm what you need before you commit to the stay.
