Ramata Greens Apartment

01What it is

Ramata Greens Apartment is a three star property on Allsops Thika Road, in Greater Nairobi. Its listed facilities are free car parking, laundry service and an outdoor pool. Grouped, that is one thing for a car, one thing for your clothes and one thing for a hot afternoon. What is missing is the rest: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, no Wi-Fi or meeting space on the list. The list is thin, and you should treat it as thin.

What that adds up to is a simple trade. Ramata Greens Apartment gives you a place to park, a place to swim and a way to get laundry done, in a part of Greater Nairobi, not in the central quarter. The property sits 6.31 km from River Road, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It suits a driver who wants a base outside the centre and does not need the centre's hotels. It does not suit anyone relying on the centre on foot.

02The supplier's photographs

033 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 the city centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, and none of the ten quarters this site covers on the CBD grid contains them. River Road is only the nearest of those quarters, which puts you in the wider city rather than in the centre, and means you travel in and out for anything in the CBD.

That quarter, for reference, is the eastern grid: matatu stages, cheap kitchens, hard-working. It stands 0.68 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 9 minutes on foot in a direct line. The working city at full volume: stages, hardware, lodgings, and food cooked in front of you. Of it the site says plainly not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. It suits nothing tidy, and a clear sense of how the city actually runs.

05Booking it

Book Ramata Greens Apartment if the listed facilities match what you need and you accept that the centre is not on your doorstep. 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.