A one bedroom apartment on Kindaruma Road in Kilimani, rated four star and run with a full service list: security around the clock, air conditioning, breakfast, cleaning and parking. The deciding factor is the address. This site covers the central business district, and this place is 3.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line.
01What it is
Luxury 1 BDRM apartment Kilimani carries a four star rating and a long facility list. The practical parts are covered: 24H. Security with security features and a safe, air conditioning, free Wifi and internet access, free car parking plus a garage, lifts, housekeeping and cleaning, and laundry service with an iron and board. Breakfast is listed. There is a TV, a terrace and a garden, a playground, a smoking area, a smoke detector and first aid. What the list does not carry is any sense of the building itself: no room count, no floor plan, no detail on the apartment beyond the one bedroom, and no guest score on file.
For someone staying at Luxury 1 BDRM apartment Kilimani, the proposition is a serviced apartment on a ridge of new concrete, built for the car and the conference room. It is 2.07 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so Upper Hill on business is the obvious fit, as is anyone who wants a kitchen and laundry rather than a hotel corridor. It does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre: the quarter this site covers is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon. After dark the area is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0323 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 only once you have decided that a car or a driver is part of your stay, because nothing about central Nairobi is walkable from the door. 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 Luxury 1 BDRM apartment Kilimani?+
It is at Kindaruma Road Heartland Home Garden Apartment, in Kilimani, within Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district itself. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Upper Hill and Community. The centre, at Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on a car.
What does the apartment actually include?+
The four star listing covers 24H. Security, air conditioning, breakfast, cleaning and housekeeping, free Wifi and internet access, free car parking and a garage, lifts, laundry service, an iron and board, a safe, a TV, a terrace, a garden, a playground, a smoking area, a smoke detector and first aid.
Can I walk into central Nairobi from here?+
Not usefully. The property is 3.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the quarter this site covers is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon. After dark the street is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
How do I check availability and cancel if plans change?+
Availability and room details are shown when you book through app.impt.io, and most rooms there can be cancelled free. There is no guest score on file for this property, so the facility list and the location are what you have to judge it on before you commit.
