A four star apartment block on Argwings Kodhek Road, built for families who want a kitchen and a second room rather than a hotel bedroom. The kitchen is the thing that decides it: with one, this works for a longer stay; without one you are paying for space you will not use.
01What it is
Lux Suites Silverstone Family Apartments lists apartments rather than rooms, with kitchens and kitchenettes, a microwave, a refrigerator, and family rooms, so a group can eat in and spread out. Air conditioning, free wifi, a TV, an iron and board, and lifts cover the working basics. Bathrooms come with a shower, a bidet, a WC, toiletries, towels and slippers, and there is a balcony and a swimming pool indoors. Parking is free, which matters on a street built for the car. The list is thin on the things that make a stay easy to plan around: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, and no stated reception hours or airport transfer.
What that adds up to is a self-contained apartment on a ridge of new concrete, set up for the car and the conference room rather than for walking. Lux Suites Silverstone Family Apartments works for a family or a small team staying several nights, arriving with a vehicle, and treating the apartment as a base. It does not work if you want the centre on foot, or a bar and a restaurant downstairs, or a street with life on it after dark. It is safe and dull after dark here: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0326 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 if the kitchen and the free parking are what you are actually after, not the address. 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 Silverstone Family Apartments?+
On Argwings Kodhek Road, in Greater Nairobi. It sits 3.59 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 45 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, so most people arrive by vehicle.
What do the apartments include?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with a microwave and refrigerator, family rooms, air conditioning, free wifi, a TV, an iron and board, and lifts. Bathrooms have a shower, bidet, WC, toiletries, towels and slippers. There is a balcony and an indoor pool, and parking is free. No restaurant or bar is listed.
Can I walk into the city centre from here?+
It is a long walk rather than a short one. The property is 2.07 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and further from the central business district itself. A car or a ride is the practical way in and out.
How do I check availability for specific dates?+
Availability and room types are shown when you search for your dates through the booking link on this page. The property lists apartments and family rooms, so put in the full number of people in your group and compare what comes back before you commit.
