A four star apartment block on the Lumumba Drive side of Greater Nairobi, with a kitchen, laundry-grade basics and free parking, which is the thing that decides it. Come with a car or do not come, because the address is really an unnamed road on a transport edge, and the centre is a long way off on foot.
01What it is
Purple Suites Apartment Lumumba Drive lists the self-catering core plainly: a kitchen, a refrigerator, a bathroom with shower and WC, towels and slippers. It also lists free wifi and internet access, a TV, a balcony, lifts, non smoking rooms and wheelchair access, plus free car parking. The list is thin on the extras a four star rating usually promises: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, nothing about breakfast or a front desk. What is there is the practical set for someone staying several nights rather than one.
What that adds up to is an apartment rather than a hotel: you cook, you park, you sleep, and the building handles the rest. The area settles it. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. Purple Suites Apartment Lumumba Drive suits a driver staying a week, a family or a pair who want a kitchen and a guaranteed parking space. It does not suit anyone hoping to walk out to dinner in the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0317 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. 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 street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
For this property, check the dates you actually need before anything else, because the address is a car address and your stay depends on having one. 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 Purple Suites Apartment Lumumba Drive?+
It sits on an unnamed road off Lumumba Drive in Greater Nairobi. The site records it as 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and as 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the property actually provide?+
A kitchen with a refrigerator, a bathroom with shower and WC, towels and slippers, free wifi and internet access, a TV, a balcony, lifts, non smoking rooms, wheelchair access and free car parking. There is no restaurant, bar or breakfast listed, so plan to cook or eat out.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
It is not a walking address. The distance to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is recorded as 130 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area after dark is a transport edge rather than an evening one. Cross it by car, and treat the centre as a drive.
How do I check whether the apartment is free on my dates?+
Use the booking link on this page to put in your arrival and departure dates and see what is open. Cancellation terms are shown for each room before you confirm, and you complete the booking through app.impt.io rather than by contacting the property directly.
