Loocid Apartments at Nova is a three star property on Muthangari Drive in Greater Nairobi, miles out of the centre. What decides it is the car: free parking and a shuttle are the point of staying here, and without them you are relying on the shuttle for every trip into town.
01What it is
Loocid Apartments at Nova lists free car parking, parking, a shuttle service, a 24 hour front desk, an outdoor pool and wheelchair access, and carries a three star rating. For a driver the parking and the shutters on the desk matter most, since you come and go at your own hours and someone is there to take the car and the bag. The pool is the other real draw. Where the list thins is everything else: no kitchen, laundry, gym or breakfast is named, and no guest score is on file, so the facilities block is the whole of what is documented.
What that adds up to is a base for a self driving stay in Greater Nairobi rather than a base for the centre. Loocid Apartments at Nova is 5.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 67 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area around it is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Suits drivers who want quiet, parking and a pool. Does not suit anyone without a car or a plan for the shuttle.
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
Book Loocid Apartments at Nova if the parking and the shuttle are what you need; if you want the quarter at the door, look closer in. 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 Loocid Apartments at Nova?+
It is on Muthangari Drive in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district rather than inside it. The address puts you in the wider city, with the hotel's own parking and shuttle as the ways in and out.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, parking, a shuttle service, a 24 hour front desk, an outdoor pool and wheelchair access, at a three star rating. Kitchen, laundry, gym and breakfast are not named, so plan meals and washing around what is not on the list.
Can you walk into the centre from here?+
The centre is 4.75 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is a real journey rather than a stroll, so most people staying here use the shuttle or drive in.
How do you check availability?+
Availability and room types sit behind the booking link on this page. Enter your dates there and the system shows what is open at Loocid Apartments at Nova, with free cancellation on most rooms.
