A three-bedroom apartment off Riverside Lane West in Greater Nairobi, outside the business district rather than in it. The listing gives you free wifi, free car parking, a garden and an outdoor pool, and a three star frame around them. The pool, garden and parking decide it: if you are driving and want space, this suits. If you want to walk out of a lobby into the centre, it does not.
01What it is
Maya 3 bed Apartment in Nairobi lists four facilities: free wifi, free car parking, a garden and an outdoor pool, with a three star rating attached. For a driver, the parking is the useful one; for a family or a small group, the three bedrooms and the garden are the point; the pool matters in a city where a swim is otherwise a club membership. The list is thin in every other direction. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer and no workspace named. Treat it as a serviced apartment that happens to have a pool, not as a hotel with a pool.
Maya 3 bed Apartment in Nairobi sits on Riverside Lane West in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre itself. The quarter around Biashara Street and City Market is 3.5 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the streets there are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide, and after dark the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, a daytime quarter. That shape decides the guest. Self-catering drivers, families and small groups who treat the apartment as a base and take a car or a ride into the centre fit here. Anyone expecting to step out of the door into the business district, or to eat and drink downstairs, is in the wrong property.
02The supplier's photographs
034 facilities the supplier lists
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 Maya 3 bed Apartment in Nairobi only once you have decided that a Greater Nairobi address with a car park works for how you will move around. 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 Maya 3 bed Apartment in Nairobi?+
The address is Riverside Lane West, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It is 4.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a vehicle or a ride for anything in the centre.
What does the apartment actually provide?+
Free wifi, free car parking, a garden and an outdoor pool, with a three star rating. That is the full list: no restaurant, bar, gym or transfer is named. The garden, pool and parking are the facilities that shape a stay here.
Can you walk from the apartment into the centre?+
The nearest quarter this site covers is 3.5 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That area is a daytime quarter; the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Most people drive or take a ride.
How do you check availability for Maya 3 bed Apartment in Nairobi?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where you can see what is open for your dates and book. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you settle your plans. No prices are shown on this site.
