Serviced apartments on Harry Thuku Road, with kitchens, a pool and a fitness centre. The deciding fact is the setting: Biashara Street and City Market is a daytime quarter, so anyone wanting an evening street life should look elsewhere, while an early riser wanting a kitchen has a case.
01What it is
Longonot Place Serviced Apartments Nairobi City Centre CBD is a three star block on Harry Thuku Road. The list runs to self catering: kitchen and kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board. Rooms carry a desk, a safe, a TV, a telephone, a balcony, toiletries and towels, and there are family rooms, non smoking rooms, cots, lifts and wheelchair access. The wider list covers a 24 hour front desk with 24 hour security, express check in, concierge, luggage storage, dry cleaning, laundry and housekeeping, plus free wifi, free car parking, car rental, a shuttle service, a lounge, a garden, a terrace, a banquet room, bars, an outdoor pool and a fitness centre. It is a broad list and it is not a careful one: a golf course and a swimming pool sit beside a corridor address, the garden and terrace are not explained, and the bars are not described. Treat the long tail as the management's own summary rather than a promise.
What that adds up to depends on how you use a room. Longonot Place Serviced Apartments Nairobi City Centre CBD is built for stays that last more than a night: the washing machine, the oven and the fridge do the work a hotel restaurant would otherwise do, and the desk, wifi and 24 hour front desk make a working week straightforward. The pool and fitness centre give you somewhere to be at the end of the day without leaving the building. It suits someone on a longer posting or a family who wants to cook, and it suits anyone whose days are full and whose evenings are not. It does not suit a visitor who came for the street: the area around it is narrow, shaded and one-family wide by day, and after dark the halls shut and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 19 more on the supplier's own record. 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 this one direct if you want a kitchen and a balcony, and book early if a cots or family room matters, because the serviced end of the block is the part people come for. 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 Longonot Place Serviced Apartments Nairobi City Centre CBD?+
It is on Harry Thuku Road in Nairobi, 0.56 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market. It is also 1.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 15 minutes on foot in a direct line. The surrounding quarter is narrow and shaded, and the shops there are still one-family wide.
What do the apartments have in them?+
The list is self catering: kitchen and kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board, plus a desk, safe, TV, telephone, balcony, toiletries and towels. Family rooms, non smoking rooms, cots, lifts and wheelchair access are listed. Wifi and car parking are free.
What is the area like after dark?+
A daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Biashara Street and City Market is the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide, and that is a working-hours character. Plan your evenings around the building rather than the street.
How do I check availability?+
Go to app.impt.io and search the dates you need against Longonot Place Serviced Apartments Nairobi City Centre CBD. The site shows what is free and lets you book. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date before you commit to it.
