A three star apartment in Greater Nairobi, far out from the centre. The deciding fact is the address: you are 12.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 154 minutes on foot in a direct line, so if your days belong to the CBD this is the wrong base.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Kasarani Budget Apartment is a three star property at Clay Works in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are short and practical: free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair access. Anyone arriving with a vehicle will find the parking useful, and the lifts and wheelchair access matter if stairs are a problem. Beyond that the list is thin. There is no restaurant, no bar, no pool and no gym on it, and nothing is said about breakfast or a kitchen, so you should treat the apartment itself as the whole of the offer and plan your meals elsewhere.
What that adds up to is a plain place to sleep, not a place to spend a day. Stay.Plus Kasarani Budget Apartment works if you have your own car, a reason to be on this side of the city, and no need for the centre in the evening. It does not work if you want to walk to meetings, eat downstairs, or have somewhere to sit after dark, because the area shuts. The parking is the real draw, and the distance is the real cost.
02The supplier's photographs
034 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 Stay.Plus Kasarani Budget Apartment only once you have accepted the distance, because nothing about the rooms changes it. 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 the property?+
It is at Clay Works in Greater Nairobi, a long way east of the centre. The site measures it at 12.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 154 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you should plan on a vehicle rather than a walk for anything in the CBD.
What facilities does it actually list?+
Free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair accessible. Those are the whole of the list. Nothing indicates a restaurant, bar, pool or gym, and there is no mention of breakfast, so you will be sorting food and evenings somewhere other than the property.
What is the area around it like?+
The street is a working market ground: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am. After dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be, and the answer is mornings only. Plan your arrivals and departures for daylight.
How do I check availability and hold a room?+
Use app.impt.io to see which rooms are open on your dates and to confirm a booking. It is the same place you would go to look at what is left before you commit, and the natural first step if you are still weighing up the distance.
