A four star studio in Kilimani with its own kitchen, laundry and parking, on a ridge built for the car and the conference room. Self catering and a parking space decide it: good for a longer stay with your own transport, wrong for anyone who wants the centre on foot after dark.
01What it is
Lovely studio apartment Kilimani is a four star studio at Kindaruma Road with the full self catering set: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator and coffee, plus a washing machine if you are staying long enough to need one. Wifi and internet access are listed, as are a TV, hairdryer, iron and board, towels and a WC. The building has lifts and luggage storage, parking is free, non smoking rooms are available and pets are allowed. The list is thin on the things a hotel usually supplies: there is no restaurant or bar, no gym, and nothing stated about breakfast or front desk hours, so read it as an apartment rather than a serviced hotel.
What that adds up to for you: Lovely studio apartment Kilimani is a base for someone who wants to cook, park a car and do their own laundry, and who treats the room as somewhere to sleep rather than somewhere to spend the day. Kilimani itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. So a car or a driver makes this work, and evenings out mean going somewhere else. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre, or who wants a bar, a restaurant and company downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Lovely studio apartment Kilimani if you want a self catering studio with parking on Kindaruma Road rather than a serviced hotel room. 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 Lovely studio apartment Kilimani?+
It is on Kindaruma Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi. It sits 3.76 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.08 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Kilimani is a ridge quarter built for the car.
What does the studio actually have in it?+
A kitchen and kitchenette with oven, microwave, refrigerator and coffee, plus a washing machine, iron and board, hairdryer, towels, TV and WC. Wifi, internet access, lifts, luggage storage and free car parking are listed, as are non smoking rooms and pets allowed. There is no restaurant, bar or gym stated.
Can I walk into the centre from here, and what is the area like after dark?+
You can walk it in a direct line, but this is a car quarter. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre in the evening, plan on a car or a taxi rather than a walk, and treat the studio as a place to return to.
How do I check whether the studio is free for my dates?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io, where you can see the studio for your dates and book it. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you settle your plans. There are no prices on this site; the app shows what applies to your stay.
