A serviced apartment building on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, set up for self-catering stays with a car. The thing that decides whether it is right for you is whether you want a kitchen and a parking space more than you want the centre at your door.
01What it is
JVstudios Ndemi garden is a three star apartment property at Hekima Gardens Ndemi Gardens Apartments B1401, and the listed facilities are the working kind rather than the ornamental ones. Each unit comes with a kitchen or kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, a sink and water, so you can feed yourself rather than eat out every night. Bathrooms are specified down to the shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. There is free wifi and internet access, a TV, an iron and board, a safe, a smoke detector and housekeeping, with laundry service and lifts in the building. A market is listed, along with bars, free car parking and parking, 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security and security features, and wheelchair access. Where the list is thin is anything resembling a concierge service, a restaurant of its own, or grounds described in any detail; you are told what the rooms contain, not what the stay feels like.
What that adds up to at JVstudios Ndemi garden is a base rather than a destination. The kitchen, the parking and the front desk that never closes suit someone staying several nights on their own schedule, arriving late, cooking in, and driving out when they need to. The setting is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It is 5.56 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 70 minutes on foot in a direct line, so this is not a place for someone who wants to step out into the centre. It suits the self-catering visitor with a car and a reason to be on this side of town; it does not suit anyone without one, or anyone who wants the daytime quarter around them.
02The supplier's photographs
0332 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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book JVstudios Ndemi garden if you want a kitchen and a parking space on the ridge rather than a room in the centre, and confirm what your unit includes 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 JVstudios Ndemi garden?+
It is at Hekima Gardens Ndemi Gardens Apartments B1401, in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It sits 3.9 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
Do the apartments have kitchens?+
Yes. The listed facilities include a kitchen or kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, a sink and water, so you can prepare your own meals instead of eating out. A market is also listed in the building, which makes self-catering practical.
What is the area like after dark?+
Safe and dull. Hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The property lists 24 hour security, security features and a 24 hour front desk, but the immediate surroundings are not a place you walk out into for the evening, so plan on driving.
How do I check whether a unit is free for my dates?+
Use the booking link for this property and enter your dates to see what is open. The front desk is staffed around the clock, and the listed facilities include free wifi and internet access if you need to sort the details before you arrive.
