A three star apart-hotel on Kipande Road in Ngara, with kitchens, parking and a pool. It suits you if you want your own kitchen and a car at the door; it does not suit anyone hoping to step out into the centre of an evening.
01What it is
Emeli Suites is a three star apart-hotel at 21 Kipande Road, in Ngara and the Globe. The listed facilities are mostly about living in the room rather than being served in it: apartments with a kitchen and a kitchenette, a microwave and a refrigerator, plus a bathroom with a bidet, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. There is free wifi, a TV, an iron and board, lifts, non smoking rooms and family rooms. Outside there is a terrace and an outdoor pool, and parking is free. The list is thin on the things a hotel usually supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast, no gym, no airport transfer, and nothing said about staffed service of any kind.
What that adds up to is a self-catering base rather than a hotel in the usual sense. Emeli Suites gives you a kitchen, a fridge and a microwave, so you eat in, and a car park, so you keep the vehicle you arrived in. The lifts and the family rooms make it workable with children and luggage. The verdict is narrow. Emeli Suites suits longer stays, families, and anyone in Nairobi for work at the Globe or around Ngara who wants space and cooking rather than a lobby. It does not suit a first visit built around the centre, or anyone who wants dinner and a bar downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Ngara and the Globe
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the CBD, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does: that is the street feel here, and it holds all day. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line. Early markets and the walk up to the National Museum are what this quarter is best for.
After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The halls and market stalls shut, and the roundabout turns into a place you pass through, not a place you linger. This suits you if you want the fruit market at first light or a base on the northern side of the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on foot, and it does not suit a trip built around being out after dark.
Read the whole of Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
For Emeli Suites, book the room type you actually need, because the apartment, kitchenette and family categories are not interchangeable. 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.
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06Questions
Where exactly is Emeli Suites?+
It is at 21 Kipande Road, in the Ngara and the Globe area of Nairobi. That places it 0.76 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, and 1.14 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 15 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does Emeli Suites list in the rooms?+
Apartments with a kitchen and kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, a bathroom with bidet, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, plus free wifi, a TV, an iron and board, lifts, non smoking rooms, family rooms, a terrace, an outdoor pool and free parking.
What is the area around Kipande Road like?+
Ngara and the Globe is a transport edge rather than an evening one, with a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. After dark you cross it by car, not on foot, and you go elsewhere for dinner and a bar.
How do I check availability at Emeli Suites?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where the room types, including the apartments and family rooms, are listed. Compare what you need against the categories shown, since the kitchen and kitchenette layouts differ between them.
