A four star apartment on Baringo Road in Kahawa Sukari, well outside the centre. Self-catering, parking, wifi, air conditioning and a bar, in a residential area where the road starts with the vegetable trade before dawn. It decides itself: you need a car or a driver here, and you are not walking to Muthurwa.
01What it is
Kahawa Sukari Apartment lists the working parts of a self-contained stay: a kitchen and kitchenette, a bathroom with shower, WC, towels and toiletries, air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a minibar and free wifi. There is a balcony, a garden, family rooms, non smoking rooms, an iron and board, cleaning, and free car parking. Bars are on the list, carpeted floors, slippers too. It is a 4 star property. Where the list thins is service: no restaurant, no gym, no pool, no airport transfer, and nothing on the page about a front desk running through the night. Bars appear without detail, so treat them as a facility, not a destination.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Kahawa Sukari Apartment is a base, not a hotel you linger in. The apartment gives you a kitchen and a washing line of practical things, and the surrounding streets give you a residential Kahawa Sukari that shuts early. If you are driving yourself, parking is free, and the Northern Bypass side of the city opens up. If you are not, this is a hard place to be based, because the centre is far and the nights here are closed and dark. Families with a car, people working in the north east of the city, and anyone who wants an apartment rather than a room: this is for you. Anyone planning to walk to meetings in the CBD: it is not.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 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 Kahawa Sukari Apartment if you have your own transport and want an apartment rather than a hotel room, and check availability on app.impt.io 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 exactly is Kahawa Sukari Apartment?+
It is on Baringo Road, third floor G6, in Kahawa Sukari, in Greater Nairobi. It stands 15.69 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 197 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a vehicle for anything in the centre.
What is the area around the apartment like?+
Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. That is the street. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only, so arrange your comings and goings around daylight.
How far is it from the centre and the markets?+
It is 15.02 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Nothing here is walkable to the CBD, so budget for a car, a driver or a ride.
How do I check availability and what is included?+
Check dates and rooms on app.impt.io. The apartment lists free wifi, free car parking, air conditioning, a kitchen and kitchenette, a balcony, a garden, family rooms, a TV and a minibar. Booking through the site carries free cancellation on most rooms.
