A four star apartment block in South B, with the whole flat to yourself: air conditioning, a kitchen, a balcony, parking behind the gate. Location rather than comfort is the deciding factor. It sits in wide industrial land, so you drive everywhere and you do not walk home after dark.
01What it is
Lux Suites Balozi Apartment South B is listed as a four star apart-hotel in South B Balozi, with twelve photographs on file. The unit list is the practical kind: air conditioning, a kitchen with microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet and toiletries, plus a balcony or patio, slippers, iron and board, and a TV. Wifi and internet access are listed, parking is free, and there are family rooms and non smoking rooms. The thin part is everything outside the flat: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, no reception detail, and no guest score on file.
What that adds up to at Lux Suites Balozi Apartment South B is self catering in a residential and industrial pocket of Greater Nairobi, not a hotel with a lobby to sit in. You get space, a kitchen and a car park, and you give up the walkable surroundings and the evening options you would have in the centre. It suits a family or a group with a vehicle, or someone working nearby for a stretch of weeks. It does not suit a first time visitor who wants to step out of the door into Nairobi's Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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 the centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, past the ten quarters this site covers. The nearest of those quarters, for orientation only, is The Railway Quarter, on the southern edge of the grid, and that is as close as the connection goes. You are in the wider city here. Anything in the CBD means travelling in and out, so plan the day around that rather than around a short step from your room.
The Railway Quarter itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, the museum, and understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift; the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, so keep it to daylight and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book this one if you have a car and want the flat rather than the postcode, and check the address on a map 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 is Lux Suites Balozi Apartment South B?+
It is on South B Balozi in Greater Nairobi, south of the centre. It is 4.87 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 61 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street around it is wide industrial land with sheds, so treat the apartment as a base reached by car.
What do you get inside the apartment?+
Each unit is listed with air conditioning, a kitchen including microwave and refrigerator, a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet and toiletries, a balcony or patio, slippers, an iron and board, and a TV. Wifi and internet access are listed, parking is free, and family and non smoking rooms are available. No restaurant or bar is listed.
Can you walk into the Central Business District from here?+
No. This is Greater Nairobi, not the centre, and the streets are industrial and unlit in stretches. The site's own line is daylight only, and a car back. Use a vehicle or a taxi for every trip, including the 3.99 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do you check whether the apartment is free?+
Put your dates into the booking site and it will show which units are open for them. Availability moves with demand, so a place that is full this week may open next week. Nothing is held until the booking is confirmed, and most rooms can be cancelled free.
