Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms is a four star address off Muthangari Drive in Greater Nairobi, with studios and two bedroom units, free wifi, free parking and a pool. The deciding fact is the location: Greater Nairobi, not the centre, and you need a car or a ride for everything.
01What it is
Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms lists a short, functional set of facilities: free wifi, free car parking with a further parking entry, a balcony, a swimming pool and a pets allowed policy. That covers the practical half of a stay rather than the hospitable half. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym on the list, and no airport transfer, so you should arrive expecting to sort your own meals and your own movement around Greater Nairobi. The pool and the balcony are the two things that lift it above a plain bed for the night, and the pets allowed line is unusual enough to matter if you travel with an animal.
What that adds up to is a self-catering base rather than a hotel with a life of its own. Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms gives you a room with a kitchen-sized unit behind it, somewhere to park a car you have hired, and a pool to come back to at the end of the day. It suits drivers, people on longer stays, families who want two bedrooms rather than two rooms, and anyone travelling with a pet. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of the door into the centre, or who wants dinner and a drink downstairs. Greater Nairobi is the clue: you are outside the quarter, and the halls of the centre shut in the late afternoon.
02The supplier's photographs
036 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
For a Greater Nairobi address with parking and a pool, availability is the thing to check first, particularly for the two bedroom units rather than the studios. 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 Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms?+
It is on Muthangari Drive in Nairobi, in what this site calls Greater Nairobi rather than the central quarter. It stands 5.3 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 67 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 4.69 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the property list?+
Free wifi, free car parking with an additional parking entry, a balcony, a swimming pool, and a pets allowed policy. Those are the only facilities on file. There is no restaurant, bar, gym or airport transfer listed, so plan on feeding yourself and arranging your own transport around Greater Nairobi.
What is that part of Nairobi like?+
The site describes the quarter this way: narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. After dark it is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms sits outside that quarter, in Greater Nairobi.
How do I check whether the studios or the two bedrooms are free?+
Look up Kika Executive Studios And 2 Bedrooms on app.impt.io and enter your dates. The listing shows both the studios and the two bedroom units, so you can see which type is open for the nights you want. If you are travelling with a pet, check that against the property's pets allowed policy before confirming.
