A three star loft on Chady Road, out by the airport rather than in the centre. It lists a kitchen, a balcony, parking and a shuttle, and the deciding factor is the hour you need it: this is a place for arriving or leaving, not for the city.
01What it is
Four Fairlane Jkia Airport Loft is a three star property on Chady Road with twelve photos on file. The listed facilities run to the practical: a kitchen with a microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with a shower, WC, towels and toiletries, plus a bathrobe and slippers, an iron and board, a TV, free wifi and non smoking rooms. Outside there is a balcony and a garden, and for vehicles, free car parking and a car rental service. Cleaning, first aid and a shuttle service are also listed. Where the list is thin is in the things a longer stay leans on, and it says nothing at all about food or a bar.
Four Fairlane Jkia Airport Loft is best understood as a transit address in Greater Nairobi. The layout works for a night or two before a flight or after one, when a kitchen, a hot shower and a parking space do more for you than a lobby. It does not work for a trip built around the centre. If you want to be among offices and markets from morning to night, this puts you at a distance and leaves you dependent on the shuttle or a car. Suits early departures, late arrivals and drivers. Does not suit anyone whose days belong to Nairobi proper.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 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 Four Fairlane Jkia Airport Loft ahead if your dates are fixed around a flight, because the point of it is the night before or the night after. 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 property?+
It sits on Chady Road in Greater Nairobi, the airport side of the city rather than the centre. For scale, it is 14.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 178 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest of the quarters this site covers is the east markets.
What does the loft actually have in it?+
The listed facilities include a kitchen with a microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with a shower, WC, towels and toiletries, a balcony, a garden, a TV, free wifi, an iron and board, slippers, a bathrobe and non smoking rooms. Free car parking, car rental, cleaning, first aid and a shuttle service are also listed.
Can I use it as a base for the city centre?+
You can, but you are working against the distance. It is 13.12 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The centre is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon, and getting back out here is a car or shuttle matter.
How do I check availability?+
Go through app.impt.io, where you can see which rooms are open for your dates and book one directly. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date while your flights settle. Nothing about rates is shown on this site.
