A newly furnished two bedroom apartment on Oloitoktok Road in Greater Nairobi, with a kitchen, a washing machine and parking on site. The pool and the city views are the draw. What decides it is the 4 star listing rather than a serviced hotel: you cook and you drive.
01What it is
Executive Newly Furnished Two Bedroom Apartment With Heated Swimming Pool With Beautiful Scenic City Views is a 4 star self catering property, and the list is mostly the mechanics of living rather than hotel service. Two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a kitchenette, a washing machine, a TV, free wifi and internet access. Outside there is a balcony, a terrace and a garden, and the heated pool is named in the property itself. Free car parking and parking both appear, which is the honest signal about how you are meant to arrive. What the list is thin on is anything a hotel would do for you: no reception, no restaurant, no room service, no gym and no airport transfer.
For someone staying a week or more in Greater Nairobi, that combination works: you wash clothes, you cook, you park, and you swim, and the apartment is new rather than worn. It does not work if you want the centre on foot, because this is not the centre. Executive Newly Furnished Two Bedroom Apartment suits families, small groups and people on a longer work stay with a car. It does not suit a single night, anyone without transport, or anyone who wants staff on hand.
02The supplier's photographs
0314 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one if you want the whole apartment and a parking space rather than a hotel room, and check the dates before you commit to the drive. 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 exactly is the apartment?+
It is on Oloitoktok Road in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge above the centre. The site measures it at 5.13 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 65 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.78 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
Is this a hotel or a self catering apartment?+
Self catering. The listing is for two bedrooms with a kitchen and a kitchenette, a washing machine, a bathroom, a TV, free wifi and internet access. There is a balcony, a terrace, a garden and the heated pool. Nothing in the list suggests a reception desk or a restaurant on site.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
The street is built for the car and the conference room, and the apartment lists free car parking and parking. After dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Coming and going is easier with your own vehicle, and the pool and garden keep you on site.
How do I check availability and hold dates?+
Availability is checked live when you enter your dates, and most rooms here can be cancelled free. The apartment has five photos on file, so look at those before you decide, then confirm the booking through app.impt.io. Nothing is held until the booking is confirmed.
