This is a one bedroom with a lounge on Lumumba Drive in Royal Suburbs, Greater Nairobi, outside the centre rather than in it. The listing leans on security, parking and a 24 hour cafeteria. The deciding factor is your car: with one, the flat works, without one the address is a long way out.
01What it is
Secure 1 bedroom lounge & 24hr cafeteria service is a four star address on Lumumba Drive in Royal Suburbs, in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are the practical kind: 24 hour security, free car parking and parking, lifts, luggage storage, a safe, non smoking rooms and free wifi with internet access. Inside there is a kitchen and a refrigerator, a bath, shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, plus a TV, an iron and board, and a terrace. Housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning are listed. Bars and a market are named. The list is thin on things to do on site, and the cafeteria is the only listed food service.
What that adds up to for anyone staying at Secure 1 bedroom lounge & 24hr cafeteria service is a self contained flat on a transport edge, kept secure around the clock, with your own parking. Lumumba Drive sits on the northern side of Greater Nairobi, 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street 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. Suits drivers who want space, a kitchen and a parking bay and do not need the centre at their door. Does not suit anyone on foot or hoping to walk out for the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
0327 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
Book this one if you are driving in and want the parking and the flat confirmed before you arrive rather than sorted at the gate. 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 this property?+
It is on Lumumba Drive in Royal Suburbs, in Greater Nairobi, which sits outside the central business district. Measured from the middle of the centre, it is 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line. A car is the practical way to reach it.
What does the property actually list among its facilities?+
The listing covers 24 hour security, free car parking and parking, lifts, luggage storage, a safe, non smoking rooms and free wifi. Inside there is a kitchen and a refrigerator, a bath, shower, WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, a TV, an iron and board, and a terrace. Housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning are named, along with bars and a market.
What is the area around Lumumba Drive like?+
The road is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it reads as a transport edge rather than an evening one, so you cross it by car rather than on foot. That is the trade off for the space, the kitchen and the parking bay.
How do I check whether this property is available?+
Availability and the free cancellation terms are shown on app.impt.io, where the booking is made. The site does not publish rates or a price list, so the booking page is where you confirm the details of the flat and the dates you want before you commit to the drive out.
