A three star apartment style property on Mugumo Crescent in Greater Nairobi, with kitchens, parking and a garden rather than a front desk lobby. Whether it works for you turns on one thing: you want your own kitchen and a car, and you are not here to walk to the centre.
01What it is
Macadamia Boutique Living lists a full self catering setup: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, coffee, water, plus a desk, TV and minibar. Bathrooms come with shower, WC, hairdryer, toiletries and towels, and rooms are carpeted and non smoking with a safe and smoke detector. Outside there is a balcony, patio, terrace and garden. Practical extras are free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk, 24H security, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning, iron and board. The list is thin on anything shared: no restaurant, bar, gym or meeting room, so the property is the room and its kitchen, not a set of facilities.
For someone staying at Macadamia Boutique Living, that adds up to a private, quiet base rather than a hotel with services around it. You cook, you park, you keep to yourself. The site's note on this part of the centre is that it is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so evenings are best spent in. It suits self drivers, longer stays and anyone who wants a kitchen and a bolted door. It does not suit anyone relying on foot traffic, a bar downstairs or a short stroll to the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 1 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
Book Macadamia Boutique Living directly if you want a kitchen, parking and a quiet Greater Nairobi address rather than a central hotel. 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 Macadamia Boutique Living?+
It is on 26 Mugumo Crescent in Greater Nairobi, 6.78 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it outside the central business district, so plan on a vehicle rather than walking in.
What does the property actually have?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk, housekeeping, laundry, a balcony, patio, terrace and garden. Rooms are non smoking with a safe, desk, TV and private bathroom.
Can I walk to the city centre from here?+
It sits 6.18 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is not a walk you want at the end of the day, and the surrounding quarter is a daytime one whose streets empty in the late afternoon.
How do I check availability?+
Use app.impt.io to see which rooms are open for your dates and to confirm a booking. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking process shows you what is available before you commit.
