A three star apartment in Greater Nairobi, out on the ridge, with a kitchen, a washing machine and free parking of its own. It suits you if you are driving and want a quiet base with your own cooking and laundry. It does not suit you if you want to step out of the door into the centre.
01What it is
Ndwaru69, listed at Ndwaru 69 Apartments P24, is a three star apartment rather than a serviced hotel room, and the facility list reads like a working flat. There is a kitchen and a kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, a washing machine, an iron and board, and a desk. The bathroom side is covered with a shower, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, and the living side with a TV, free wifi and internet access, a safe, a balcony, carpet in places, and non smoking rooms. Outside the apartment there is free car parking and a garage. Laundry service is listed, and so are first aid and pets allowed. Where the list is thin is everything a hotel normally supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, no room service, and no guest score on file to lean on.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat on a ridge built for the car and the conference room, which is the street feel there, safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else after dark. Ndwaru69 gives you your own kitchen, your own laundry and your own parking space, and asks you to bring a vehicle to make any of it work. It sits 8.53 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the centre is a journey rather than a walk. Book Ndwaru69 if you are driving, staying several nights, and would rather cook and park than be looked after. Do not book it if you are on foot, here for one night, or expecting the city at the door.
02The supplier's photographs
0329 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 Upper Hill and Community, 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 Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Ndwaru69 directly, and check the dates you want before you plan the rest of the trip, because a self contained flat is only useful if it is free when you are. 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 Ndwaru69?+
It is listed at Ndwaru 69 Apartments P24 in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 9.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 122 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8.53 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is a car first location.
Is there parking at Ndwaru69?+
Yes. Free car parking and a garage are both on the facility list, which is unusual for the centre and is the main practical reason to choose this property. If you are arriving with a vehicle, you are not hunting for a space on the street or paying a daily charge elsewhere.
Can I cook and do laundry at Ndwaru69?+
The apartment lists a kitchen and kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a washing machine, plus an iron and board. Laundry service is also listed. That covers self catering for a longer stay, which is the point of booking an apartment here rather than a hotel room.
How do I check availability at Ndwaru69?+
Availability is checked and booked through app.impt.io, and most rooms here can be cancelled free. Put in your dates there rather than assuming a flat will be open, since a self contained unit is taken for longer stretches. Booking confirmed through the app also carries the CO2 and credit terms.
