A 3 star apartment block on Beijing Road in Greater Nairobi, with its own garden, parking and shuttle. It is a practical base if you are flying early or working nearby. It is wrong if you want to walk out into the centre.
01What it is
Nairobi Airport Apartments is a 3 star property on Beijing Road in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are broad rather than deep: 24 hour front desk, concierge, express check out, luggage storage, free wifi, free car parking, free newspaper, laundry and dry cleaning, housekeeping, babysitting, wheelchair access, and a shuttle service that carries a surcharge. Inside the apartments you get a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV. Shared spaces run to a garden, a lounge, a library, an arcade and a playground. The list is thin on the ordinary things: there is no restaurant, no bar and no gym, and nothing in the list tells you what the rooms look like or how many there are.
What that adds up to at Nairobi Airport Apartments is a self contained address for someone who does not need the city on the doorstep. The library, lounge, garden and playground make the place work for a family or a long stay, and the shuttle plus free parking make it work if your day is built around arrivals and departures rather than the centre. The one fact that should decide it: this is 15.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line. Suits flight crews, families and anyone with business in Greater Nairobi. Does not suit a visitor whose trip is the centre itself.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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
Book Nairobi Airport Apartments if your schedule is built around early flights and you want everything on site rather than on the street. 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 Nairobi Airport Apartments?+
It is on Beijing Road in Greater Nairobi, not in the Central Business District. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 14.75 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat it as an airport area address, not a city centre one.
What facilities does Nairobi Airport Apartments list?+
It lists a 24 hour front desk, concierge, express check out, luggage storage, free wifi, free car parking, free newspaper, laundry and dry cleaning, housekeeping, babysitting, wheelchair access and a shuttle service with a surcharge. Apartments include a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV. Shared spaces include a garden, lounge, library, arcade and playground.
Can you walk from Nairobi Airport Apartments into the centre of Nairobi?+
No. The distance is 15.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 198 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a long walk in daylight and not one to attempt. Plan on the shuttle service, which carries a surcharge, or arrange your own transport.
How do you check availability for Nairobi Airport Apartments?+
Use the booking link on this page. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking runs through app.impt.io. Availability for specific dates is shown there rather than on this page, and there is no rate information on this site.
