Lux Suites Staroot Apartments Kilimani is a three star apartment block on Wood Avenue, on the new concrete ridge west of the centre. Apartments with kitchens, free parking and a pool. The deciding factor is the car: this is a part of town built for it, and without one the evenings narrow to hotel bars.
01What it is
Lux Suites Staroot Apartments Kilimani lists apartments rather than rooms, which is the whole shape of the place. Each one comes with a kitchen or kitchenette, a refrigerator, a microwave, and the equipment to actually cook rather than just reheat: iron and board, towels, toiletries, slippers, a bathroom with a bidet and WC, a balcony or patio, a TV and free wifi. The building has lifts, non smoking rooms, family rooms, free car parking, and an outdoor pool. What the list does not tell you is anything about the state of the fittings, the size of the apartments, or how the place is run day to day. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym on the list. If those matter, you are looking at the wrong building.
For someone staying at Lux Suites Staroot Apartments Kilimani, the offer is self sufficiency with a parking space. You drive in, you park, you cook, you sleep, you drive out. Families and small groups get room to spread out, and the kitchen takes the edge off a long stay in a city where eating out every night adds up. It suits people with business on this ridge, or in Upper Hill, or anyone who wants a base rather than an experience. It does not suit you if you want the centre on foot, or if you want a bar and a restaurant downstairs.
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 Lux Suites Staroot Apartments Kilimani if the kitchen and the parking are the point of your stay, and check the apartment type before you commit, since the list covers both kitchens and kitchenettes. 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 Staroot Apartments Kilimani?+
On Wood Avenue in Kilimani, in the Greater Nairobi area. It sits 2.88 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 4.3 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 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?+
The list includes apartments with a kitchen or kitchenette, a refrigerator and a microwave, so you can cook rather than only reheat. Confirm which you are getting when you book, because the two are not the same thing and the list does not say how they are distributed across the building.
What is it like around there after dark?+
Safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. This is a ridge built for the car and the conference room, and the evening options within walking distance are limited to hotel bars. Plan on taking a ride if you want anything else, or on staying in with the kitchen and the balcony.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and apartment types are shown when you book through app.impt.io, where most rooms can be cancelled free. The property holds twelve photos on file, so you can see the apartments before you commit. There are no rates published on this site, and nothing here is held or reserved until a booking is confirmed.
