A one bedroom apartment on the sixteenth floor of a tower in Greater Nairobi, with a kitchen, a balcony and a lift, and a location that assumes you have a car. It suits anyone who wants to cook and stay longer than a night; it does not suit anyone who wants to step out into the centre.
01What it is
Lush Nest Beautiful 1br Apartment Kilimani Nairobi is listed as a four star apartment rather than a hotel room, and the facilities follow that: a kitchen with a microwave and a refrigerator, a washing machine, an iron and board, and a balcony. You get free wifi, a TV, a safe, a telephone, towels, toiletries, a bathrobe and a shower. The building has lifts, free car parking, non smoking rooms, family rooms, laundry service and room service. Breakfast is listed, and so are bars, a terrace and a sofa bed. Where the list is thin is in the things a hotel normally guarantees: it names no restaurant, no gym and no business centre, and it lists bowling and table tennis without saying where either is.
What that adds up to at Lush Nest Beautiful 1br Apartment Kilimani Nairobi is a self contained flat rather than a serviced stay. You can cook, wash clothes and settle in for a week, and the lift and the parking make a car practical. The distance from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 4.51 km, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is not a stroll and the evening trade here is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It suits long stay guests, couples and anyone working on the ridge with a car. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 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 this one if you want a kitchen and a parking space more than you want a lobby, and check the apartment size against your party before you confirm. 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 this apartment?+
It is on the sixteenth floor of Brickford Heights in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete. It is 2.96 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 4.51 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What is in the apartment?+
A kitchen with a microwave and a refrigerator, a washing machine, an iron and board, a balcony, a safe, a TV, a telephone, a shower, towels, toiletries and a bathrobe. The building adds lifts, free wifi, free car parking, non smoking rooms, family rooms, laundry service, room service and a terrace.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
Not comfortably. The site's own line on the area is that it is safe and dull after dark, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. The centre is 4.51 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on driving or taking a ride.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page and enter your dates. The property is a single apartment, not a floor of rooms, so open dates move quickly and a short stay is easier to place than a long one. Cancellation terms are shown before you confirm.
