An apartment-style 3 star property on Plainsview Road in South B, listed with a kitchen and the practical fittings of a longer stay. The deciding fact is the street: wide industrial land, sheds, unlit in stretches. Stay here with a car, and treat the centre as a place you drive to.
01What it is
Outlink South B Minutes to Town and Jkia Airport is a 3 star property, and the list of what it provides is mostly the equipment of a self-contained flat: a kitchen, a kitchenette, a microwave, a washing machine, an iron and board, a hairdryer, toiletries, slippers, a shower, a safe and a TV. There is free wifi and internet access, laundry service, lifts, parking, a shuttle service, a terrace, non smoking rooms and a smoke detector. Express check in is listed. That is a long and genuinely useful list for anyone settling in for more than a night or two. What it does not list is food: no restaurant, no breakfast, no bar. You shop and you cook, or you leave the property to eat.
For someone staying at Outlink South B Minutes to Town and Jkia Airport, that combination points to a particular kind of trip: a working stay or a longer one where you want your own kitchen and your own washing machine rather than a room with a kettle, and where the shuttle service and parking matter more than being able to step out for dinner. It does not suit anyone whose plan is to walk into the centre in the evening and walk back. The street feel is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here; after dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, daylight only, and a car back. Take this property if you have a car and want space. Leave it if you want the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0321 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 the centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, past the ten quarters this site covers. The nearest of those quarters, for orientation only, is The Railway Quarter, on the southern edge of the grid, and that is as close as the connection goes. You are in the wider city here. Anything in the CBD means travelling in and out, so plan the day around that rather than around a short step from your room.
The Railway Quarter itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, the museum, and understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift; the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, so keep it to daylight and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book this one if the kitchen and the parking are the point of the trip, because they are what the property is built 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 exactly is Outlink South B Minutes to Town and Jkia Airport?+
It is on Plainsview Road in Nairobi, in the South B area, which this site treats as Greater Nairobi. The address is Plainsview Road, Nairobi. For scale, it sits 3.7 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is not in the Central Business District itself.
What does the property actually provide in the room?+
The listed facilities lean towards a self-contained flat: kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, washing machine, iron and board, hairdryer, toiletries, slippers, shower, safe and TV, plus free wifi, internet access, lifts, parking, a terrace and non smoking rooms. There is no restaurant or bar on the list, so plan on cooking or eating elsewhere.
Can I walk from the property into the centre of Nairobi?+
The property is 4.57 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 58 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, and after dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches. Treat the centre as a drive, not a walk, and take a car back.
What does the guest score of 3.9 out of 5 tell me?+
It is a middling score from 26 reviews, which is a small sample and worth reading as such. It suggests a property that does the practical things adequately rather than one that people rave about. Given the kitchen, laundry and parking listed, that fits a functional stay for drivers and longer visitors.
