A three star apartment block on Wood Avenue in Kilimani, on new concrete built for the car and the conference room. The kitchen is the point. If you want to cook and park, it works; if you want to walk out to dinner and a bar, Kilimani makes you take a ride.
01What it is
Lux Suites Gold Park Apartments Kilimani is a three star apartment property on Wood Avenue, and the list of facilities reads like a self catering flat rather than a hotel room. There is a kitchen and a kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, a toaster and coffee, plus a washing machine, an iron and board, and housekeeping with laundry service. Rooms are carpeted and non smoking, with a desk, a sofa bed, a TV and radio, a balcony, towels, toiletries, slippers, a shower, a bidet and a WC. Free wifi and free car parking are listed, there are family rooms, lifts, luggage storage, and wheelchair access. Mini golf is the one leisure item, and beyond the parking and the wifi, the list says nothing about how you get around without a car. That is where it is thin.
What that adds up to for someone staying here is a practical, self contained flat. Lux Suites Gold Park Apartments Kilimani suits a family or a working stay of several nights, particularly anyone arriving by car, because the parking is free and the kitchen takes the pressure off eating out. It does not suit a short leisure trip built around walking to bars and restaurants, since the after dark description of this part of the city is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If your day is a conference room and your evening is the flat, it is sensible. If your day is the centre on foot, look nearer the centre.
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
If you want the kitchen and the free parking, book this one directly and confirm the apartment type before you commit, since a balcony or a sofa bed is not guaranteed in every unit. 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 Gold Park Apartments Kilimani?+
It is on Wood Avenue in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. That puts it 4.22 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line, so most people staying here arrive by car rather than on foot.
Can I cook for myself instead of eating out every night?+
Yes. The property lists a kitchen and a kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, a toaster and coffee, along with a washing machine, an iron and board, and housekeeping with laundry service. That makes it work for longer stays and for families who would rather not eat every meal in a restaurant.
Is there parking, and is it easy to get into the centre from here?+
Free car parking is listed, and there are lifts, so arriving and leaving by car is straightforward. Reaching the centre is a ride rather than a stroll, since the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 2.88 km from Upper Hill and Community. After dark it is safe and dull, so plan on a car.
How do I check whether an apartment is free on my dates?+
Use the booking link on this page to see what is open for your nights. Availability here varies by unit type, since family rooms, balconies and sofa beds are not in every apartment, so check the layout you need rather than assuming it. Free cancellation applies to most rooms.
