A four star apartment block on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for longer stays with a kitchen, a washing machine and a pool. It sits 6.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, so decide first whether you want apartment space more than you want to be inside the centre.
01What it is
Skyline Suites City view Apartments is a four star apartment property on Riara One Apartment in Greater Nairobi, and the list is shaped by self catering rather than by hotel service. You get a kitchen or kitchenette with an oven, microwave and refrigerator, a washing machine, iron and board, and a balcony, so a week here works without eating out every night. There is air conditioning and a fan, a safe and smoke detector, free wifi, free car parking, a lift, a garden and an outdoor pool. Bathrooms come with a shower, WC, bidet, towels, toiletries, hairdryer and slippers. Some things are thinner: cleaning and laundry are listed as services, so ask what actually runs during your dates, and the facilities list is a supplier list with duplicates in it, pool and swimming pool, parking and free car parking, which tells you the list was assembled rather than written.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Skyline Suites City view Apartments is apartment space in a Greater Nairobi setting rather than a central hotel. The ridge is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. This suits a family or a group, someone with a car, a longer stay, or anyone whose business is on this side of the city. It does not suit you if you want to step out of a lobby into the centre: the address is 5.22 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The pool, garden and free parking are the real arguments for it.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 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 of the centre this site covers. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Skyline Suites City view Apartments through this site, and confirm the apartment grade and the cleaning arrangement before you arrive, since the facilities list is broad and not specific. 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 Skyline Suites City view Apartments?+
It is on Riara One Apartment in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. The site measures it at 6.75 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 85 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is 5.22 km from Upper Hill and Community, the nearest quarter covered here.
Is it an apartment or a hotel room?+
It is listed as apartments, four star, so expect self catering rather than full hotel service. The list includes a kitchen or kitchenette with oven, microwave and refrigerator, a washing machine, iron and board, and a balcony. Cleaning and laundry appear as services, so ask what is included for your dates.
What is around it after dark?+
Not much on foot. The site's own line for the area is that it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits a quiet night in an apartment with a pool and garden, and does not suit anyone wanting restaurants and bars at the door without arranging transport.
Does it work without a car?+
It is built for the car, with free car parking on site. From Greater Nairobi you are outside the centre, so plan on rides into town rather than walking, and check the distances against your own errands before you commit. If your meetings are central, look at the quarter pages first.
