A four star studio with a king bed and a kitchen, up on a roof off Munae Road. The deciding fact is the street: a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before light, on a transport edge you cross by car after dark.
01What it is
Penthouse Rooftop Studio with King bed is a four star apartment, and the facilities list reads like a serviced flat rather than a hotel room. There is a kitchen with a microwave, refrigerator and sink, plus a bathroom with shower, WC, bidet, hairdryer, toiletries and towels. Free wifi, a TV, a safe, iron and board, slippers, a fan, carpeted floors, sofa bed and family rooms cover the practical side, and there is a patio and terrace on top. Free car parking sits alongside 24 hour security, express check in, luggage storage, laundry service and cleaning, with a smoking area outside the non smoking rooms. The list is thin on the things a hotel usually supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast, no gym, no airport transfer, nothing in the way of service beyond the room itself.
What that adds up to at Penthouse Rooftop Studio with King bed is self sufficiency. You cook or you go out for food, you park on site, and the roof space is the shared amenity. The location is the other half of the decision: the property is 0.98 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, and 1.49 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 19 minutes on foot in a direct line. It suits drivers, families and anyone staying several nights who wants a kitchen and a parking space, and it suits people who treat the centre as somewhere to reach by car rather than a place to step out into. It does not suit anyone who wants a bar downstairs, a restaurant, or an evening that happens on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0335 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Ngara and the Globe
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the CBD, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does: that is the street feel here, and it holds all day. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line. Early markets and the walk up to the National Museum are what this quarter is best for.
After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The halls and market stalls shut, and the roundabout turns into a place you pass through, not a place you linger. This suits you if you want the fruit market at first light or a base on the northern side of the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on foot, and it does not suit a trip built around being out after dark.
Read the whole of Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one on the room and the parking space rather than on any service downstairs, because there is none. 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.
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06Questions
Where exactly is the Penthouse Rooftop Studio with King bed?+
It is on Munae Road in Nairobi, in the Ngara and the Globe area. The street there is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It is 0.98 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe, so the roundabout and its traffic are close by.
What does the studio actually have in it?+
A king bed, a kitchen with microwave, refrigerator and sink, a private bathroom with shower, WC and bidet, and a patio and terrace. There is free wifi, a TV, a safe, iron and board, slippers, a fan, carpeted floors and a sofa bed, with free car parking, 24 hour security, express check in, luggage storage and laundry service.
Can I walk into the centre from here, or do I need a car?+
It is 1.49 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 19 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is walkable in daylight. After dark this reads as a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's advice is to cross it by car.
How do I check whether the studio is free for my dates?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io, which is where you confirm the room. There are no prices listed on this page. If you need to know the cost for your dates, check it there before you commit to the trip.
