A four star apart-hotel on Church Rd in Greater Nairobi, with an indoor pool, lifts and free parking. It suits self-driving travellers who want space and quiet more than street life. It does not suit anyone hoping to step outside into the centre, because the centre is not where this sits.
01What it is
Prime Living Luxury Apartments lists the practical set a driver in Greater Nairobi actually uses: free car parking, parking, free wifi, lifts and non smoking rooms, with an indoor pool and a swimming pool as the two leisure items on the sheet. Twelve photos are on file. That is the whole list, and it is thin where it matters most for this site: no restaurant, no bar, no airport transfer, no shuttle, and nothing that tells you how a carless arrival gets in from Church Rd. The four star rating covers the flat itself rather than any service around it.
For someone staying at Prime Living Luxury Apartments, that adds up to a self contained flat in a residential pocket of Greater Nairobi, where the pool is indoors and the parking is yours and the lifts mean the floors are not a problem. It is 4.53 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is a car ride, not a stroll. This suits drivers and longer stays. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the quarter.
02The supplier's photographs
037 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Prime Living Luxury Apartments if you are arriving by car and want the flat and the parking settled before you land. 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 Prime Living Luxury Apartments?+
It is on Church Rd in Nairobi, listed under Greater Nairobi rather than the Central Business District. That places it outside the walking centre. It is 4.53 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on arriving by car or by taxi rather than on foot.
What facilities does Prime Living Luxury Apartments have?+
The listed facilities cover free wifi, free car parking, parking, lifts, non smoking rooms, an indoor pool and a swimming pool. There is no restaurant or bar on the list, so meals are your own arrangement. The indoor pool is the item that stands out for a Greater Nairobi address.
Can I walk from Prime Living Luxury Apartments into the city centre?+
The centre is not within a walk of the property in any practical sense. It is 3.91 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and that quarter is a daytime quarter, with the halls shutting in the late afternoon and the streets emptying with them.
How do I check whether Prime Living Luxury Apartments has a room for my dates?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, which handles the booking for this property. You enter your dates there and see what the apart-hotel has open. The listing covers twelve photos and the full set of facilities above, so you can compare a flat against a hotel room in the centre before you decide.
