A four star apartment block on Kindaruma Road in Kilimani, with kitchens in the rooms and an indoor pool. The one thing that decides it is the car: this is a ridge built for driving, and the centre is a ride away.
01What it is
Lux Suites Silver Habor Apartments Kilimani lists apartments rather than rooms, which is the point of the place: a kitchen or kitchenette, a refrigerator, a microwave, and the plates and pans that go with them. It carries a four star rating. The facilities list adds a balcony, a patio, a bathroom with a bidet and a WC, towels, toiletries, slippers, an iron and board, a TV, free wifi and internet access, lifts, non smoking rooms and family rooms. There is an indoor pool and free car parking. The list is thin on service: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, no laundry, no desk for working at, and nothing said about how often an apartment is cleaned.
What that adds up to is self catering with a pool, in a quarter built for the car and the conference room. Lux Suites Silver Habor Apartments Kilimani suits a family or a small group on a longer stay, anyone who wants to cook rather than eat out every night, and anyone driving to meetings in Upper Hill or along Ngong Road who would rather park at the door than in a basement in the centre. It does not suit a first time visitor who wants to walk out of the lobby into the city, and it does not suit anyone without a car or a habit of booking rides.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 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
Book this one direct if you want an apartment with a kitchen rather than a hotel room, and read the facilities list closely before you commit. 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 Silver Habor Apartments Kilimani?+
It sits on Kindaruma Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 4.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 51 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room.
Do the apartments have kitchens?+
Yes. The property lists apartments with a kitchen or kitchenette, a refrigerator and a microwave, so you can cook rather than eat out every night. What it does not list is a restaurant, a bar or a gym, and there is no detail on how often an apartment is serviced.
Can you walk from the property into the centre?+
Kilimani is not a walking quarter. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Upper Hill and Community, 2.35 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the centre is further. Plan on a car or a booked ride for anything after dark.
What is there to do around the property in the evening?+
Not much. The after dark note for this part of Nairobi is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The property has an indoor pool, and the apartments have kitchens and balconies, so an evening in is a reasonable plan.
