A three star one bedroom apartment off Garden Estate Road, in the transport belt north of the centre. It has a kitchen, a balcony, a bath and parking, and it is 8.17 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 103 minutes on foot in a direct line. The deciding question is whether you have a car.
01What it is
Garden Estate Spacious and luxurious one bedroom apartment lists a full set of rooms rather than a room: a kitchen and a kitchenette, a bathroom, a bath, a balcony, a garden, a television and wifi, with free car parking and non smoking rooms. For a three star property that is a generous list, and the self catering part is the reason to consider it. What the list does not carry is any service beyond the walls: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, no workspace. Everything you eat and everything you do outside the apartment, you arrange yourself.
What that adds up to for Garden Estate Spacious and luxurious one bedroom apartment is a base for a self contained stay rather than a hotel stay. You cook, you park, you sleep, and you drive to whatever you came for. It suits a couple or a single traveller with a car who wants room to spread out and does not need the centre at the door. It does not suit anyone on foot, anyone here for the meetings and bars of the centre, or anyone who wants staff on hand.
02The supplier's photographs
0313 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. 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 street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one directly if the apartment layout and the parking are what you are after, because check in is handled online and there is no front desk to sort it out at short notice. 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?+
On Garden Estate Road in Greater Nairobi, in the transport belt north of the centre. It is 7.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The roundabout, the flyover and the early market define the immediate area, and you need a car to cross it.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
One bedroom with a bathroom and a bath, a kitchen and a kitchenette, a balcony, a garden, a television, wifi and free car parking, and it is non smoking. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym on the list, so you cater for yourself and take your evenings elsewhere.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
The apartment sits 8.17 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 103 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's own note is to cross it by car. Plan on driving in and out rather than walking.
How do I check availability for the dates I want?+
Availability and free cancellation are shown when you search on app.impt.io for Garden Estate Road, Nairobi. The listing has twelve photographs on file, so you can see the living space, the bedroom layout, the kitchen and the balcony before you confirm anything at all.
