A four star apartment in Greater Nairobi, built for people arriving by car. The parking, the garden and the wheelchair access are the point; the address is the trade. Book it if you want room to spread out and do not mind a ride to reach the centre. Skip it if you want to step out of the door into the city.
01What it is
Karen Brooks View Palace 2 Bedroom Apartments lists free car parking and parking, a garden, a picnic area and wheelchair accessible access, and it carries a four star rating. Parking and accessibility are the facilities a visitor will notice first, and the garden and picnic area give you somewhere to sit outside the apartment itself. That is the whole list on file, and it is thin: there is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no pool, so treat the apartment as a base rather than a place to spend the day.
What that adds up to at Karen Brooks View Palace is space and a car park, in a part of Greater Nairobi where the street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. So the property suits a family or a small group with a vehicle, or anyone who wants two bedrooms and a garden instead of a single hotel room. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk to meetings, restaurants or nightlife, because there is nothing to walk to.
02The supplier's photographs
035 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 a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Booking Karen Brooks View Palace means checking that the apartment and its parking suit your dates, since the facilities on file are few and the location decides the trip. 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 Karen Brooks View Palace 2 Bedroom Apartments?+
It sits on Karen Brooks Road in the Karen Brooks Estate, in Greater Nairobi. It is 11.66 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 13.41 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 168 minutes on foot in a direct line. A car is the practical way to cover that.
What facilities does the property list?+
Free car parking and parking, a garden, a picnic area and wheelchair accessible access. It is rated four star. That is the list on file, and it is deliberately short: there is no restaurant, bar, gym or pool, so plan on the apartment and its outdoor space rather than on hotel services.
What is the area around the apartments like?+
The site describes the street there as new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits some travellers and rules out others, and it is the main thing to weigh before booking.
How do I check availability?+
Availability for Karen Brooks View Palace 2 Bedroom Apartments is shown when you book through app.impt.io, where you can see which dates are open and cancel free on most rooms. The property is in Greater Nairobi, so sort your transport before you confirm anything.
