A three star serviced apartment block on Harry Thuku Rd, with a staffed desk around the clock and parking on site. The address is the deciding factor: you are in the working centre of Nairobi, not beside its evening life.
01What it is
Longonot Place Serviced Apartment lists the things that keep a city stay frictionless: a 24 Hour Front Desk, lifts, free car parking, a laundry service, wheelchair access and a smoking area. Those are the practical bones of the place, and for anyone arriving to work in the CBD they cover the essentials. The list is thin in other directions. There is nothing here about food, nothing about a gym or a lounge, and no leisure facilities at all, so if you want the property itself to entertain you, this is not it.
What Longonot Place Serviced Apartment adds up to is a straightforward urban address. You get a staffed entrance at any hour, a lift instead of stairs, somewhere to leave a car and somewhere to send laundry after a long day. The trade is that the surroundings are commercial rather than social, so evenings are quiet and you make your own plans elsewhere. It suits people in the centre for work or the market who want a base and no fuss. It does not suit anyone hoping the hotel and its street will provide the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
037 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is 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. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Longonot Place Serviced Apartment if you want a staffed desk and parking in the centre, and check the dates that work for you. 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 Longonot Place Serviced Apartment?+
It is on Harry Thuku Rd in Nairobi's CBD. The site measures it at 1.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 15 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts you inside the commercial centre rather than on its edge.
What facilities does the property actually have?+
The listed facilities are a 24 Hour Front Desk, free car parking, a laundry service, lifts, wheelchair access and a smoking area. There is no restaurant, no gym and no lounge on the list, so plan meals and leisure around the centre rather than the building.
What is the area around Biashara Street and City Market like?+
The property is 0.56 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, where the streets are narrow, shaded and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
How do I check availability and book?+
Use the booking link on this page and enter your dates to see what is open. Bookings are confirmed through app.impt.io, most rooms can be cancelled free, and the desk is staffed at any hour if you need to reach the property before you arrive.
