A three star apartment block on Elgon Avenue, off Thika Road in Greater Nairobi. The parking, the lift and the wheelchair access decide it: this suits you if you arrive with a car and leave by one, and not if you want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Lux Suites Astrol Apartments is a three star block on Elgon Avenue off Thika Road, and its listed facilities are short and mostly practical: free car parking, lifts, sheets and towels, a shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access. Parking and the lift are the two that matter day to day, because this is a building you arrive at and leave from by vehicle. The bedding and towels are listed plainly rather than dressed up. Where the list is thin is everything else: no restaurant, no bar, no pool, no gym, nothing about a desk or a kitchen, nothing about how many bedrooms an apartment has. Treat the list as the whole of it.
What that adds up to at Lux Suites Astrol Apartments is a bed and a parking space on a transport edge of Greater Nairobi, with a shuttle to move you and a lift to save the stairs. The location decides the stay. The street here is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. So this suits a driver, a family with a vehicle, or anyone working along Thika Road who wants space and a secure place to leave a car. It does not suit a visitor whose plan is to walk out of the door into the centre, or anyone who wants an evening around them.
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
These hotels are not in Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one early if you need the parking or the wheelchair accessible access, since those are the reasons to choose it over anything 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 exactly is Lux Suites Astrol Apartments?+
It is on Elgon Avenue off Thika Road, in Greater Nairobi. The site puts it 8.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 110 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest of the ten quarters covered here is Ngara and the Globe.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, lifts, sheets, towels, a shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access, and it is a three star property. There is no restaurant, bar, pool or gym on the list. Parking and the lift are the facilities most guests end up using.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so you cross it by car. The free parking and the shuttle exist for that reason.
How do I check whether a room is free?+
Availability and dates are shown on the booking page at app.impt.io, where the room types and the cancellation terms are set out. Nothing on this site carries a rate, so the booking page is where you compare and confirm.
