A three star self-catering apartment at Embakasi, well outside the centre and built around having your own car and your own kitchen. The distance decides it: if you want to walk to the city's business addresses, this is the wrong side of Nairobi.
01What it is
Primal apartment at Embakasi Nairobi Kenya is a three star apartment property, and the list is a flat's list rather than a hotel's. You get a kitchen with an oven, a microwave and a refrigerator, a washing machine for longer stays, a lounge, a balcony and a patio, a garden, free wifi and free car parking. There is 24 hour security, a safe, iron and board, towels, slippers, a shower, a bidet and a WC, and the apartment is a non smoking one. A jacuzzi, a barber and beauty salon, a market, breakfast, cleaning and laundry service are also listed. Family rooms, express check in and internet access round it out. Where the list is thin is in the things a hotel usually supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no airport transfer are named.
What that adds up to at Primal apartment at Embakasi Nairobi Kenya is a self-contained flat about ten kilometres east of the centre, in a part of Greater Nairobi where the day starts early and the streets empty by evening. You cook, you park behind security, you wash your own clothes. For a family, a group or anyone working on the eastern side of the city with a car, the space and the kitchen make it a practical choice. For a visitor who wants the Central Business District on foot, it is not. It is a residential base, not a city centre hotel.
02The supplier's photographs
0334 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 this apartment directly if you want a whole flat with parking and a kitchen rather than a room in a hotel. 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 Primal apartment at Embakasi Nairobi Kenya?+
It is on Baraka Road at Simba Villa Flat T3, in Embakasi, within Greater Nairobi. The site puts it 11.22 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 141 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a straight line measurement, not a driving route, and it is well east of the centre.
Is the apartment suitable for a family or a longer stay?+
Yes. Family rooms are listed, and the apartment includes a kitchen with an oven, microwave and refrigerator, plus a washing machine, lounge, balcony and patio. For several nights or more, cooking and laundry in the flat remove the daily cost and friction of eating out and finding a laundry.
What is the area around Baraka Road like?+
The street feel is trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings only is the advice. Treat the apartment as an early start and an early return rather than an evening base.
How do I check whether the apartment is available for my dates?+
Use the booking link on this page to enter your dates and see what is open. The listing shows twelve photos and the facilities above, so you can match the flat against what you need before you commit. Free cancellation applies to most rooms, so dates can be held and changed.
