A three star studio block off Grevilea Grove in Greater Nairobi, with its own kitchen, laundry and parking, and a garden. What decides it is the distance: you keep a car or you pay for the shuttle, because this is not a base you walk out of.
01What it is
Sherry Homes Qwetu Studio lists a full self-contained set: kitchen and kitchenette with microwave and refrigerator, a private bathroom with shower, WC, hairdryer, toiletries and towels, plus desk, iron and board, and a washing machine. The studio is carpeted and non smoking, with TV and free wifi. Building side there is 24 hour security, smoke detectors, a safe, lifts, luggage storage, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning, family rooms, free car parking, a garden and a shuttle service. The list is thin on the things a hotel usually supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport pickup detail beyond the shuttle line.
What that adds up to at Sherry Homes Qwetu Studio is an apartment you run yourself rather than a hotel that runs around you. You cook, you wash, you park on site, and the staff handle cleaning and security. It suits a family, a longer stay, or anyone working from the desk with a car and no interest in a lobby. It does not suit a first trip where you want to step out of the door into the centre. The nearest quarter is Biashara Street and City Market at 5.86 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you need the car or the shuttle every time you go in.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 2 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
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one directly if you want a self-catering studio and you have already sorted how you will move around Greater Nairobi. 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 Sherry Homes Qwetu Studio?+
It is on Grevilea Grove in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district, 6.46 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 81 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it closer to a residential street than to the office towers, which is the whole point of staying here.
What does the studio include?+
Kitchen and kitchenette with microwave and refrigerator, private bathroom with shower, towels and toiletries, desk, iron and board, washing machine, TV and free wifi. The building adds 24 hour security, lifts, free car parking, a garden, luggage storage, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, and a shuttle service.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The site is in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, and the nearest quarter it covers is Biashara Street and City Market. Free car parking is listed, and there is a shuttle service. Without either, you are relying on rides into town and back for everything.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and cancellation terms are shown at the point of booking through app.impt.io. The property is three star with family rooms and non smoking rooms, so if you need a particular room type, check it there before you commit and confirm the free cancellation applies to your dates.
