A five star hotel and serviced apartment block on a new ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for the car and the conference room. The apartments with kitchens decide it: they suit long stays and families, while anyone who wants to walk out into the centre should look nearer the centre itself.
01What it is
Purple Sun Hotel and Serviced Apartment lists the full apparatus of a five star house: a 24 hour front desk and 24H security, express check in, room service, housekeeping and laundry, a gymnasium and a spa, a garden, terrace and patio, a bar, a smoking area, free wifi and free car parking, car rental and currency exchange. The apartment side is the real offer: kitchen, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, desk, safe, TV and telephone, with balconies, carpeted rooms, family rooms and pets allowed. Read the list closely and the thinness shows: there is no restaurant named, and no airport transfer, so meals beyond room service and the bar are your own arrangement.
What that adds up to is a property that works when your day is already planned and someone else is driving. Purple Sun Hotel and Serviced Apartment gives you a secure compound, a kitchen if you want one, and enough gym, spa and garden to fill the hours you are not working, and it sits 4.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Suits delegates, families and anyone on a long posting who wants an apartment and parking. Does not suit a visitor who wants to step out of the lobby into the life of the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 11 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Purple Sun Hotel and Serviced Apartment if you want the apartment layout and the parking rather than a position in the middle of things, and check apartment against room before you commit. 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 Purple Sun Hotel and Serviced Apartment?+
It stands in Greater Nairobi, 4.18 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is also 2.6 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car.
What does the property actually have?+
A five star list covering a 24 hour front desk, 24H security, free wifi and free parking, a gymnasium, spa, garden, terrace and bar. Apartments add a kitchen, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, desk and safe. Family rooms and pets are allowed. No restaurant is named.
Can you walk into the city centre from here?+
The direct line to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 53 minutes on foot, so this is a driving address rather than a walking one. After dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. Plan on a car, or use the car rental service.
How do you check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Choose between a hotel room and a serviced apartment, since the kitchen and washing machine only come with the apartment side. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking is confirmed at the time you make it.
