Apartment-style rooms with kitchens and free parking on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for the car and the conference room. The deciding factor is simple: you need a car, because this is a quiet, spread-out part of the city and the centre is not on your doorstep.
01What it is
Ngong Road Studios is a three star apartment property on Hekima Gardens Ndemi Gardens Apartments, listing full kitchens and kitchenettes with microwave, refrigerator, sink and water, plus bathroom with shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers. Rooms are carpeted and non smoking, with TV, iron and board, and a safe. The list covers breakfast, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry service, free wifi, internet access, lifts, free car parking, a garage, a market, a fitness center, 24 hour security, security features, smoke detectors, and wheelchair accessible rooms. What is thin is anything beyond the building itself: no restaurant, no bar, no workspace, no airport transfer. The kitchen and the parking are the two entries that carry the most weight here.
What that adds up to is a self-contained base rather than a hotel with a life of its own. Ngong Road Studios suits a longer stay, a work trip, or anyone who wants to cook and park rather than eat out and queue for a ride. It does not suit a first visit to Nairobi or anyone who wants the centre on foot: the location is 5.56 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 70 minutes on foot in a direct line. The area itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0335 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 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 Ngong Road Studios directly if the kitchen and the free parking are what you are after, and check the room type 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 Ngong Road Studios?+
It is on Hekima Gardens Ndemi Gardens Apartments in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. The centre is not on foot from here. Upper Hill and Community is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, at 3.9 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What do the rooms have?+
They are apartments, not standard hotel rooms. The listing gives you a kitchen or kitchenette with microwave, refrigerator, sink and water, a bathroom with shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, a TV, an iron and board, and a safe. Rooms are carpeted, non smoking, and wheelchair accessible rooms appear on the list.
What is included on the property?+
Free wifi, internet access, free car parking, a garage, breakfast, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry service, lifts, a market, a fitness center, and 24 hour security with security features and smoke detectors. There is no restaurant, bar or workspace listed, so treat the building itself as the whole of what is here.
How do I check dates and availability?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where the room types and dates for this property are shown. Look at whether you want a kitchen or kitchenette before you pick, since the apartment layout is the reason to stay here rather than the address.
