A four star one bedroom apartment on Mandera Road in Kileleshwa Lavington, inside Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. The facility list is long and leisure heavy, and that is what decides it: you want a pool, a gym and a kitchen you can settle into, and you accept that the centre of the city is a separate trip.
01What it is
Luxury Dubai Style 1 Bedroom apartment in Kileleshwa Lavington is listed as four star, with the facilities grouped around staying in rather than passing through. There is an outdoor pool with a kids pool and pool bar, a fitness center, a spa, aerobics and yoga, a garden, a terrace and a picnic area. Inside the apartment you get air conditioning, a bathroom, a TV, iron and board, free wifi and internet access. Practical items are covered: free car parking, 24 hour security, security features, smoke detectors, a safe, lifts, housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning and cleaning, plus room service and a restaurant and bar or lounge on site. Pets are allowed, there are family rooms and non smoking rooms, and the property is wheelchair accessible with first aid on hand. The list is thinner on the working side. Copy is the only business facility named, there is no meeting room, and the barber and beauty salon, market and entertainment activities are listed without detail.
For someone staying at Luxury Dubai Style 1 Bedroom apartment in Kileleshwa Lavington, what that adds up to is a self contained base in Greater Nairobi. The apartment format, the kitchen question aside, the laundry, the parking and the pool make it work for a stay of several nights rather than one, and the security and family provisions make it reasonable for a household or a couple who want their own space. It does not suit anyone whose trip is built around the Central Business District. The address sits 3.34 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the centre it serves is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. If your days end in the middle of town, this is the wrong side of the trip.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 10 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
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
For this property, book only once you have decided how you will get between Kileleshwa Lavington and the centre each day, because the apartment is the easy part. 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 the apartment?+
The street address is Mandera Road, Moon Valley Apartments, 9th floor, in the Kileleshwa Lavington part of Greater Nairobi. It sits 3.96 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat it as a base outside the centre rather than in it.
What is actually on site for guests?+
The list includes an outdoor pool, kids pool and pool bar, a fitness center, spa, yoga and aerobics, a garden, terrace and picnic area, a restaurant and bar or lounge, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning. Business facilities are thin: copy is named, but no meeting room.
Who does this apartment suit?+
It suits longer stays, families and anyone who wants a pool, a gym, parking and their own apartment in Greater Nairobi. It does not suit a trip built around the Central Business District, because the nearest quarter is 3.34 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do I check whether the apartment is free?+
Check availability through app.impt.io, which lists this property and handles the booking. Enter your dates there and the site will show you what is open. If the one bedroom is taken, the same listing page usually shows nearby options in Kileleshwa and Lavington so you can compare.
