A four star apartment block in Kileleshwa, on the ridge above the city, with kitchens, a pool and a gym. The distance from the centre is the thing that decides it: fine if you want space, quiet and a car, wrong if you want to step out into the Central Business District.
01What it is
Ruthie's Nest by Edmor Suites is listed as apartments rather than rooms, and the facilities follow that: a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and a bathroom with shower, WC, towels and toiletries. There is free wifi, a TV, a safe, lifts, housekeeping and laundry or dry cleaning, a 24 hour front desk with express check in, non smoking rooms and family rooms. Outside are a garden, terrace, patio, picnic area and playground, plus an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, free car parking and shuttle service. The list is thinner on dining and on anything you would walk to.
What that adds up to is a self-contained stay rather than a hotel one. At Ruthie's Nest by Edmor Suites you cook, you wash your own clothes if you want to, and you use the pool or the gym without leaving the compound. The setting 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. It suits families, longer stays and anyone with business in the north western offices who wants space and parking. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot, and it does not suit a short city break built around the Central Business District.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 12 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 Ruthie's Nest by Edmor Suites if you want an apartment with a kitchen and parking on the Kileleshwa ridge, and accept that the centre is a ride away. 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 Ruthie's Nest by Edmor Suites?+
It sits at Siaya Park Apartments in Kileleshwa, in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge west of the centre. The listed address places it in a residential quarter of new apartment blocks rather than in the business district itself, which is the main thing to weigh up when you compare it with addresses nearer the centre.
What do the apartments include?+
Each one is listed with a kitchen, so an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, and a bathroom with shower, towels and toiletries. There is free wifi, a TV, a safe and housekeeping. The block adds a pool, gym, garden, terrace and free parking.
How far is it from the Central Business District?+
It is 3.57 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 45 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is 2.84 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Practically, you would take a car rather than walk in.
How do I check whether the apartment I want is free?+
Availability is checked through the booking link on this page, where the calendar shows what is open for your dates. Because these are apartments rather than single rooms, the mix of family rooms and non smoking rooms varies, so put your dates in first and see what the block returns.
