A modern one bedroom apartment in Wilma Towers on Elgeyo Marakwet Road, Kilimani, with a pool, gym and sauna in the building. The listing is generous on leisure and long stay facilities. It suits a self driving visitor with business in the west of the city, and it does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot.
01What it is
Modern 1 Bedroom Apartment with Pool Gym Sauna Wilma Towers Kilimani Nairobi Twiga Suites is a four star serviced apartment, and the listed facilities are strongest on long stay and leisure: a kitchen, a lounge, a balcony, a terrace and a garden, an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a sauna and a steam room, a games room, free wifi, free car parking, lifts, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, a car rental service, a shuttle service and 24 hour security. The list is thin where it matters for a hotel stay. There is no restaurant named and no breakfast arrangement, so a guest who wants meals downstairs has nothing to go on. Some entries, a chapel among them, read as building or neighbourhood items rather than things a guest uses.
What that adds up to for someone staying here is a self contained base rather than a serviced hotel day. Modern 1 Bedroom Apartment with Pool Gym Sauna Wilma Towers Kilimani Nairobi Twiga Suites gives you a kitchen, a washing machine by way of laundry service, and a pool and gym you can use without leaving the tower, and the street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It suits a self driving visitor staying several nights with business in Kilimani or the west of the city. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out to restaurants and bars in the evening, or who wants the centre on the doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 6 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
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one if the pool, gym and kitchen are the reason you are choosing it, and check the kitchen and laundry details 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 exactly is the apartment?+
Wilma Towers on Elgeyo Marakwet Road in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi. It is 5.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 65 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.56 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What is actually in the building?+
An outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a sauna and a steam room, a garden and terrace, a games room, a lounge, lifts, free wifi, free car parking and 24 hour security. The apartment has a kitchen, a bath or shower, a TV, a safe, a balcony and carpeted rooms. There is no restaurant named.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The street is built for the car and the conference room, and after dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Free parking is listed, a car rental service and a shuttle service are listed, and public transport is listed, but nothing is walkable in the way the centre is.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date and change your mind. If you need a specific apartment layout or a kitchen you can cook in, confirm that before you pay.
