An apartment hotel on Chania Avenue in Greater Nairobi, built for longer stays and for anyone who wants a kitchen rather than a lobby. The kitchen is what decides it: if you plan to cook, it works; if you want the centre at your door, it does not.
01What it is
Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel is a 3 star property on Chania Avenue, and its list is led by the kitchen: a kitchen or kitchenette with a dishwasher, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and washing machine, plus a dining setup for lunch and dinner. Rooms come with a desk, safe, TV, fan, balcony, bath or shower, bathrobe, slippers and toiletries, and there are family rooms, cots and accessible rooms. The list is thin on the things a city hotel normally competes on: it names a restaurant, a bar and a fitness centre, but gives no detail on any of them, and it carries a golf course, horse riding and a playground that tell you nothing about what is actually on site.
For someone staying here, Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel is a place to settle rather than pass through. The 24 hour front desk, security, housekeeping, laundry and free parking and wifi make a longer stay straightforward, and the in-room kitchen makes eating cheap and easy. It suits families, small groups and anyone on a work placement who wants space. It does not suit a short city break where you want the centre on foot, because Greater Nairobi is the setting and you will be moving by car.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 43 more on the supplier's own record. 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel if a kitchen and a longer stay matter more to you than a central address, and check the room type before you commit. 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 Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel?+
It is on Chania Avenue in Greater Nairobi. It stands 4.15 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest quarter this site covers is Upper Hill and Community, 2.6 km away.
What does the property actually list?+
Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel lists kitchens with ovens, dishwashers and washing machines, plus free wifi and parking, a 24 hour front desk, fitness centre, restaurant, bar, lounge, garden and terrace. Family rooms, cots and accessible rooms appear too, and the star rating is 3.
Is it easy to get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Not on foot. Greater Nairobi here is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, so plan on a vehicle for anything in the centre. After dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score mean?+
Highlands Suites Apartment Hotel scores 4.4 out of 5 from 196 reviews. That is a solid, consistent result rather than a perfect one, and it suggests most people who stay here get what the listing promises: space, a kitchen and quiet.
