A three star apartment block on Robert Drive in Ruaka, north west of the centre, with parking, lifts and a shuttle. It is right for you if you are driving and treating Nairobi as a base, wrong if you want to walk out of the door into the Central Business District, because you are not in it.
01What it is
Lux Suites Capital Heights Apartments lists free car parking, lifts, sheets, towels, a shuttle service and wheelchair access across twelve photographs. Four of those are practical rather than decorative: the parking matters if you keep a car, the lifts matter if stairs are a problem, the shuttle matters if you have no car, and wheelchair access appears on the list, so ask what it covers before you rely on it. The list is thin on the things a leisure stay usually rests on. There is no restaurant, no bar, no pool and no gym, and no guest score is on file for Lux Suites Capital Heights Apartments.
What that adds up to is self catering without the parts that need a building. You get a roof, a bed made up with sheets and towels in place, a lift and somewhere to leave a car, and you supply the rest of your day. Lux Suites Capital Heights Apartments suits drivers, people on longer stays who want a base in Greater Nairobi, and anyone whose business is not in the centre. It does not suit walkers. It is 8.6 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
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 only if you already know how you are moving around Ruaka, because nothing here is on foot from the centre. 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 Capital Heights Apartments?+
On Robert Drive in Ruaka, in Greater Nairobi. It is 8.6 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 9.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 116 minutes on foot in a direct line. This is a car address, not a walking one.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, lifts, sheets, towels, a shuttle service and wheelchair access, with twelve photographs on file. There is no restaurant, bar, pool or gym in the list, and no guest score is on file, so judge it on the practical items rather than on facilities it does not claim.
What is the area around Robert Drive like?+
A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. That is the daytime picture. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the advice is to cross it by car rather than on foot.
How do I check availability?+
Look up Lux Suites Capital Heights Apartments on app.impt.io and check the dates you want. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking is confirmed through the app rather than by email or phone.
