A three star apartment block in Greater Nairobi, set in the Embakasi truck and market belt east of the centre. It lists free car parking and wheelchair access, and that is the whole list. The car decides it: if you have one, it works as a base. If you are relying on walking into town, it does not.
01What it is
Lux Suites Embakasi Airport Apartments is rated three star and lists exactly two facilities on file: free car parking and wheelchair accessible. That is the entire list, and it is thin. Nothing about food, nothing about a desk, nothing about laundry, nothing about airport transfer, nothing about a bar. Two entries, one of which is a parking space and one of which is access. A visitor who cares about parking a car off the street will find that here. A visitor who needs meals, a lift to the terminal or a reception that answers at odd hours is guessing, because the property has not put any of that on the record. Treat the list as short rather than complete.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Lux Suites Embakasi Airport Apartments is a simple bargain: a place to park, a door wide enough to get through, and a bed east of the centre in Greater Nairobi. It suits a driver who is in the city for a specific reason on the eastern side, who wants the car off the road overnight and does not need the property to arrange anything else. It does not suit anyone on foot, anyone expecting hotel services, or anyone whose plan depends on being near the centre in the evening. Book it for the parking and the access, and for nothing beyond that.
02The supplier's photographs
032 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 Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book Lux Suites Embakasi Airport Apartments if your plan runs on a car and you want the eastern side of the city rather than the middle of it. 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 Embakasi Airport Apartments?+
It sits on Simba Villas Embakasi Gate B in Greater Nairobi, on the eastern side of the city rather than in the centre. It is 10.87 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 136 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.64 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the property list?+
Two: free car parking and wheelchair accessible. No restaurant, no bar, no laundry and no airport shuttle appear on the list. The list is short, so check directly with the property for anything you need beyond parking and step-free access before you commit to a stay here.
Should I stay here without a car?+
No. The parking is the point, and the surrounding area is a working truck and market district that runs in the mornings. The centre is not within a walk you would want. A car changes this place from a difficult stay into a practical one, and without one the address works against you.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where most rooms at this property can be cancelled free. Confirm your dates there before you plan around the car parking, since the property lists only two facilities and you want to know what you are arriving to.
