A two-bedroom serviced apartment with a kitchen, laundry and a pool, on Muthama Access Road in Greater Nairobi, well out from the centre. The fact that decides it is the distance and the empty night. If you must be at the markets before first light, it works. Otherwise the centre is where you want to be.
01What it is
Makumbi Suites 2Br Near Jkia Sgr is a four star property on Muthama Access Road in Greater Nairobi. The list is practical rather than luxurious: two bedrooms, a kitchen, a washing machine, a balcony and a terrace, free wifi and internet access, a TV, free car parking with additional parking, non smoking rooms and a swimming pool. That covers a longer stay, a group and anyone travelling with a car. What the list does not carry is any word on the building itself, the state of the furniture, the view from the balcony or which floor you end up on. For a four star grading the facilities are the whole of what is known.
What that adds up to is a no-frills self-catering apartment that saves you cooking out and laundering out, in a part of Greater Nairobi that shuts. Makumbi Suites 2Br Near Jkia Sgr sits 15.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 14.75 km from Muthurwa and the east markets. If you are driving, parking is free and the apartment gives you room to spread out, so a family, a small group or a long assignment works here. If you want to walk out to dinner or be in the centre in the evening, it does not.
02The supplier's photographs
0312 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 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
Booking Makumbi Suites 2Br Near Jkia Sgr is worth doing once you have accepted the location and decided you are driving. 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 Makumbi Suites 2Br Near Jkia Sgr?+
It stands on Muthama Access Road in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area. It is 15.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it well outside the Central Business District, so treat it as a base you reach by car.
What does the apartment actually give you?+
Two bedrooms with a kitchen, a washing machine, a balcony, a terrace and a TV. Free wifi and internet access, free car parking, non smoking rooms and a swimming pool. It suits a stay where you cook, wash and unpack rather than a single night passing through.
What is the area around it like?+
The street is working produce: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only on foot, and you want a car for anything else.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability and rooms are handled through the booking link on this page. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and the booking runs through app.impt.io. If your dates are firm, book early: this is a two-bedroom unit rather than a large block of rooms.
