A four star studio apartment on the fifth floor of Ruaka The Loftel, with a kitchen and a pool on the facility list. What decides it is the address: you are on a transport edge in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, so this suits a stay built around a car and not one built around walking.
01What it is
Idyllic nest studio apartment lists the things that make a longer stay work rather than a single night: a kitchen and kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, and housekeeping. There is free wifi, air conditioning, a balcony, a terrace, a lift and a safe, with towels, toiletries, slippers and a shower in the bathroom. The wider Loftel list carries a fitness center, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a barber and beauty salon, and a market. Family rooms, non smoking rooms, wheelchair accessible rooms, free car parking and 24 hour security are all there, and the whole property is four star. Where the list is thin is the location itself, handled below.
The Loftel sits in Ruaka, 10.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. Idyllic nest studio apartment therefore suits someone in Greater Nairobi with a car and a reason to be north of the centre, and the free parking and kitchen make a week plausible. It does not suit a visitor who wants the halls and streets of the CBD at the door, and it does not suit anyone planning to walk into the centre, which the distance rules out.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 6 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 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 Idyllic nest studio apartment through the link below, and note that the studio, not a standard room, is what the listing describes. 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 Idyllic nest studio apartment?+
It is on the fifth floor of Ruaka The Loftel, in Ruaka, in the Greater Nairobi area. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 11.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 138 minutes on foot in a direct line, and Ngara and the Globe is 10.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the studio have in it?+
A kitchen and kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping, free wifi, air conditioning, a balcony and a safe, with towels, toiletries, slippers and a shower. The Loftel adds a fitness center, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a barber and beauty salon, and a market, plus free car parking and 24 hour security.
Can I get into the centre without a car?+
Not comfortably. The address is 10.43 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the area after dark is a transport edge rather than an evening one. The studio is set up for a stay with a car, and free parking is on the list.
How do I check availability for specific dates?+
Use the booking link on this page and enter your dates. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. Availability and the exact unit are confirmed at that point, not on this page, so the booking link is the place to settle it.
