A three star apartment block on Robert Drive in Kahawa Wendani, part of a supermarket site. The list is deepest on self catering and services, and the thing that decides it is the location: this is not the centre and not near it.
01What it is
Kahawa Wendani Maguna's Supermarket Apartments is a three star apartment property on Robert Drive, in the Greater Nairobi area, and the facilities list reads like a long stay rather than a hotel break. Each unit has a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with shower, WC, towels and toiletries, a desk, a safe, a TV and a DVD player, and free wifi. There is housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning, room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, and a market on the site. Beyond that: a business centre with copy facilities, a fitness centre, a spa and massage, a barber and beauty salon, a banquet room, babysitting, a terrace, a smoking area and shuttle service. It is thin on nothing much except the things a hotel normally sells as its point, since there is no restaurant list beyond meals, no bar, and no pool.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Kahawa Wendani Maguna's Supermarket Apartments is a base for weeks rather than nights. You cook, you wash clothes, you work at a desk, you get your hair cut on the premises, and the supermarket below is the reason the whole thing exists. The problem is where it sits: 14.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 187 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 14.24 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is not a base for the centre. It suits people with their own transport, people working in the north of the city, and anyone whose business is in Kahawa Wendani itself. It does not suit a first visit to Nairobi, and it does not suit anyone planning to spend their days in the Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 11 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 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 directly if your dates are fixed, because apartment stock moves differently from hotel rooms. 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 Wendani Maguna's Supermarket Apartments?+
On Robert Drive in Kahawa Wendani, in the Greater Nairobi area. It is 14.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 187 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as a northern base, not a city centre one.
What do the apartments include?+
Kitchen or kitchenette with microwave and refrigerator, bathroom with shower and toiletries, desk, safe, TV, DVD, free wifi, housekeeping and laundry. The building also has a business centre, fitness centre, spa and massage, salon, banquet room, babysitting, terrace and shuttle service.
Can I stay here without a car and still reach the Central Business District?+
You can, but it will shape your day. The property is 14.24 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the street there runs on trucks and handcarts from early morning. A car makes it far easier.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and free cancellation are handled through app.impt.io, where confirmed bookings also carry the CO2 and credit terms. Check your dates there rather than assuming a room, since apartment units at this kind of property fill in longer blocks.
