A three star self catering apartment block inside Nyayo Estate, Embakasi, in Greater Nairobi, with free parking, lifts and wheelchair access. The parking and the distance are the two facts that decide it: this suits a driver with business south of the centre, and not a visitor who wants to walk out into the city.
01What it is
Stay.Plus First Choice Family Apartment is a three star apartment property at Nyayo Estate Gate D in Embakasi, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre itself. The listed facilities are short and practical: free car parking, lifts, and wheelchair accessible. For a family or a group carrying bags, the parking is the one that matters most, and the lift and step free access are worth having if anyone in the party cannot manage stairs. Beyond those three, the list is thin. There is no restaurant, no bar, no pool and no gym on the listing, so you are not choosing this for what happens inside the building.
What that adds up to is an apartment used as a base rather than a place to spend the day. Stay.Plus First Choice Family Apartment sits in Greater Nairobi, 9.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 125 minutes on foot in a direct line. The estate is quiet in the way a residential compound is quiet, and the streets around it are closed, dark and not a place to be after dark, mornings only. This suits a driver with a car and business on this side of the city, or a family that wants room to spread out. It does not suit anyone planning to walk to the centre, or to step out in the evening.
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 Muthurwa and the east markets, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Muthurwa and the east markets is only the nearest of the ten. That is the whole point of the distinction: you are sleeping outside the grid, and you will be travelling in and out for anything in the CBD.
The quarter itself is the eastern edge of the grid: wholesale produce, bus termini, before dawn. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city’s vegetables changing hands at 5am. It is the wholesale edge, where Muthurwa’s market and the country bus termini push up against the railway land, and it feeds the rest of the grid. Best for an early-morning market walk with someone who knows it. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and mornings are the only sensible time. Muthurwa sits 1.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 16 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that figure describes the quarter, not your journey from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Muthurwa and the east markets05Booking it
Book this one only once you have decided how you are getting around Greater Nairobi, because the parking and the distance are what you are really booking. 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 Stay.Plus First Choice Family Apartment?+
It is at Nyayo Estate Gate D, Embakasi, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 8.72 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, so you are well outside the centre and should plan on a vehicle.
What facilities does the property list?+
The listing gives free car parking, lifts and wheelchair accessible access, and the property is three star. There is nothing about a restaurant, bar or pool. Treat it as an apartment with the basics covered, and check anything else you need directly with the property before you book.
What is getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi like?+
Long. The apartment is 9.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 125 minutes on foot in a direct line. The streets around the estate are closed and dark after dark, mornings only, so an evening arrival by foot is not sensible. Arrange transport.
How do I check availability and book?+
You book through app.impt.io, where confirmed rooms can be cancelled free on most bookings. Availability and any room questions are handled there rather than by this site, so start the booking and see what is open for your dates.
