A three star apartment stay on Muthama Access Road in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre you came for. Breakfast, wifi and parking are listed. It decides on your own transport and your mornings, because the street trades at dawn and shuts after that.
01What it is
JKIA Tours and Homes is a three star property on Muthama Access Rd Toffina Apartment B10, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central quarter. The listed facilities are modest and mostly practical: breakfast, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, a terrace, a smoking area and a TV. Dry cleaning service is listed, and a surcharge is noted. There is no restaurant beyond breakfast, no gym, no pool and no airport transfer in the list. Twelve photos are on file, so what you see is a small sample of the property rather than a full survey of every room.
What this adds up to is a quiet, self-contained place to sleep outside the city, and the location is the whole decision. JKIA Tours and Homes sits 15.86 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 199 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 14.81 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It suits someone with a car, an early start and no need to be in the centre during the day. It does not suit anyone planning to walk to meetings or spend evenings in town.
02The supplier's photographs
039 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 this one only once you have decided the Greater Nairobi location works for your mornings. 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 JKIA Tours and Homes?+
It is on Muthama Access Rd Toffina Apartment B10, in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Muthurwa and the east markets, and the property is 14.81 km from there.
What facilities does the property list?+
Breakfast, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, dry cleaning service, a terrace, a smoking area and a TV. A surcharge is noted, and parking is the facility that matters most here, given how far the property sits from the centre.
Can I walk into the central business district from here?+
No, not usefully. The property is 15.86 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 199 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a car or a ride for every trip into the centre, and treat the location as a base rather than a place to wander from.
How do I check availability and book?+
Bookings go through app.impt.io. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so you can hold a room while you settle your transport. Check the listing for the dates you need, and confirm the room type and the cancellation terms before you pay.
