A three star property off Maua Close in Greater Nairobi, with parking, laundry and a shuttle, sitting outside the centre it serves. Whether it suits you turns on whether you want the quarter's halls in the late afternoon or a quiet street away from them.
01What it is
Masoor Homes by Edmor Suites lists car parking, and the parking is free, which is the entry that matters if you are driving. It lists laundry service and dry cleaning, a shuttle service, a television set, and wheelchair access. That is the whole of it. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no room service on the list, so you are taking a bed and a parking space rather than a full facility set, and at three stars that is roughly the shape you should expect. 41 photos are on file, which tells you nothing about the rooms themselves.
What Masoor Homes by Edmor Suites adds up to is a quiet base with the practicalities handled and the amenities thin: you can park, you can have clothes cleaned, you can get a lift arranged, and you can get a wheelchair into the building. It does not feed you and it does not entertain you. That suits a driver, a small group with a vehicle, or anyone treating Greater Nairobi as somewhere to sleep and going elsewhere for the day. It does not suit a visitor who wants the centre on foot, or one who wants dinner and a bar in the building. It is 3.25 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line.
02The supplier's photographs
037 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one if parking and laundry matter more to you than a restaurant downstairs, and read the cancellation terms before you commit. 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 Masoor Homes by Edmor Suites?+
It sits on Maua Close in Greater Nairobi, outside the central quarter. It is 2.73 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The streets around it are narrow and shaded.
What does the property actually have?+
Free car parking, car parking, laundry service, dry cleaning service, a shuttle service, a television and wheelchair access. There is no restaurant, bar, gym or room service on the list, so plan your meals elsewhere.
How do I get into the centre from there?+
The listed shuttle service is the arrangement the property itself offers, so ask about it when you book. Otherwise you are relying on a car or a taxi. The streets in the quarter empty in the late afternoon, so the centre is a daytime errand rather than an evening one.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and free cancellation are handled through app.impt.io, which is where the booking is made. Whether a particular room can be cancelled free is shown at the point of booking, so read that line before you confirm.
