An apartment block on Chady Road in Syokimau, well outside the centre and built around a kitchen rather than a lobby. The airport view is the name, not the address, and the road outside trades vegetables from early morning. If you want to walk to meetings in the CBD, this is the wrong side of the city. If you want space, a stove and your own parking, it works.
01What it is
Luxore Rozina Airport View Apartment Syokimau is a four star apartment property, and the list is heaviest on the things that make a unit liveable rather than the things that make a hotel sociable. Each apartment runs to a kitchen or kitchenette with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus coffee making, so you can feed yourself without leaving the building. Bathrooms come with a bath or shower, WC, towels, toiletries, bathrobe and slippers. There is free wifi and internet access, a TV, a fan, iron and board, a safe, a sofa bed and sheets. The building adds free car parking, lifts, a garden, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry service, room service and express check in, and it is wheelchair accessible. The thin part is the food and drink offer, which comes down to a bar or snack bar, and there is no restaurant listed. Non smoking rooms, smoke detectors and first aid cover the basics. Twelve photographs are on file.
What that adds up to at Luxore Rozina Airport View Apartment Syokimau is a self contained stay rather than a serviced one. You get a door you can shut, a kitchen you can actually cook in, a parking space and a lift, which is more than most places at this level in Greater Nairobi offer. You do not get a dining room, a pool or anything to do in the building after the snack bar closes. The location decides the rest. The property sits 14.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 176 minutes on foot in a direct line, so a car is not optional, it is the whole arrangement. It suits people driving in from the airport side, families or small groups who want to cook, and anyone staying several nights who would rather not eat out twice a day. It does not suit anyone whose trip is the CBD on foot, and the street itself is mornings only.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 5 more on the supplier's own record. 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 this one directly if you have a car and want a kitchen, because the whole case for it rests on those two things. 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 Luxore Rozina Airport View Apartment Syokimau?+
It is on Chady Road in Syokimau, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The site measures it at 14.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 176 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat a car as part of the booking, not an optional extra.
Does the apartment have a kitchen I can cook in?+
Yes. The listed facilities include a kitchen and kitchenette with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus coffee making. That is the main practical difference between staying here and staying in a hotel room in the centre, where you would be eating out for every meal.
Is there parking, and is the building accessible?+
Free car parking is listed, along with lifts and wheelchair access. The property lists no restaurant, so the food and drink offer is limited to a bar or snack bar. Non smoking rooms, smoke detectors and first aid are also listed, and there is a garden.
What is the area around the property like, and how do I check availability?+
The street feel here is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, mornings only. Availability and free cancellation are handled through app.impt.io.
