A three star stop on Muthama Access Road, out in Greater Nairobi among the produce trade rather than the centre. Free parking is what decides it: it suits a driver working the wholesale mornings, and it does not suit anyone wanting the Central Business District on foot.
01What it is
Faithica Jkia lists free wifi, free car parking and housekeeping. That is the whole of it. The three star rating sets the expectation honestly: a bed, a working connection, a room cleaned, and a car left somewhere sensible. The list is thin. There is no restaurant named, no bar, no airport transfer, no gym, nothing for a long stay beyond housekeeping. If you need a kitchen, a meeting room or a shuttle, Faithica Jkia does not claim any of them, and you should not assume they exist.
What Faithica Jkia adds up to depends entirely on why you are here. The setting is Greater Nairobi, on the vegetable and truck side of the city, and the street there is trucks, handcarts and produce changing hands before dawn. Mornings are the point. It is 15.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the centre is not a walk you take from here. It suits a driver or a trader who wants parking and an early start. It does not suit a first visitor who wants to walk out to dinner.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 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
Book Faithica Jkia in advance if your stay depends on a parking space, because that is the facility that carries the listing. 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 Faithica Jkia?+
It is on Muthama Access Road in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It is 14.76 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The area around it works around produce and trucks.
What does the hotel actually offer?+
Free wifi, free car parking and housekeeping, and that is the full list. It is a 3 star property, so treat those three as the amenities you are booking. Anything else you need, ask before you confirm rather than assume.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
No. The property is 15.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the surrounding streets shut down after dark. Plan on a vehicle, and plan your movements for the morning.
How do I check availability and cancel if plans change?+
Availability is shown through app.impt.io, where you book. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so check the terms on the room you pick before you confirm. Bookings made through that route also carry the CO2 removal and the credit back.
