A two bedroom apartment on the ninth floor of Kaisa Garden, Kileleshwa, with parking, a kitchen and wifi. It suits a longer stay with a family or a group, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre, because Kileleshwa is not the centre.
01What it is
Elegant 2 BR Apartment Kileleshwa is a four star self-catering flat on the ninth floor of Kaisa Garden, B902. The list covers the practical side: kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board, coffee, water. Two bedrooms, including family rooms, sofa bed, cot and high chairs, so a family can spread out. There is air conditioning and a fan, a desk, a safe, a TV, towels, toiletries and slippers. Free wifi and free car parking are both named. On site there are lifts, a garden, terrace, picnic area and games room. Cleaning, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning are listed, and 24 hour security with smoke detectors and first aid. The list is thinner on food and drink, and on noise: bars are named but no restaurant, and a ninth floor flat is not a quiet one.
The verdict on Elegant 2 BR Apartment Kileleshwa is that it works as a base, not as an address in the centre. You need a car or a ride for everything, and the parking is free, so that is arranged. In return you get space, a kitchen, a washing machine and a lift, which is what a family or a group staying several days actually needs. The distances are honest: 2.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.32 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Kileleshwa itself is quiet and residential. It does not suit a one night stop, or anyone who wants to step out into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 15 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one if you are staying several days and want a kitchen, a washing machine and free parking rather than a room in the middle of things. 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 Elegant 2 BR Apartment Kileleshwa?+
It is at Kaisa Garden, Apartment 9th Floor B902, in Kileleshwa, Greater Nairobi. It sits 2.32 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 2.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line. This is a residential area, not the centre.
What does the apartment include?+
Two bedrooms, a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, air conditioning and a fan, a desk, a safe and a TV. Free wifi and free car parking are listed, plus lifts, a garden, terrace, picnic area and games room. Family rooms, cot and high chairs are available.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
You can, but plan for it: the site's own figure is 2.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 37 minutes on foot in a direct line. Most people staying in Kileleshwa use a car or a ride, and free parking is included if you have one. Biashara Street and City Market are closer.
How do I check availability?+
Check dates and room types through app.impt.io, where you book this property. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the confirmation details, including the apartment number, come with the booking. There are twelve photos on file showing the flat, the building and the views of the Arboretum side.
