A three star apartment block on Chady Road in Syokimau, well outside the centre and built around parking and a lift rather than around the city. The deciding fact is that you drive here and you leave by car; on foot the centre is out of reach.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Luxore Apartment Syokimau lists four things: free car parking, parking, lifts, and wheelchair access. Grouped, that is a building set up for a car and for step-free movement between floors: you arrive, you park at no charge, and you do not carry bags up a stairwell if a lift serves your floor. The list is thin beyond that. There is no restaurant, no bar, no pool, no gym, no airport transfer and no working space named, and a three star rating in this part of Nairobi usually means the room itself is the whole of the offer.
What that adds up to is a base for someone with a vehicle and business in the western or southern outskirts of Greater Nairobi, who wants a parked car and a lift and does not need the centre on the doorstep. Stay.Plus Luxore Apartment Syokimau is a poor fit if your days are built around Kenyatta Avenue, the markets, or anywhere you would reach on foot, because it sits 14.22 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 178 minutes on foot in a direct line. It suits the self-driving visitor who treats the room as somewhere to sleep and the car as the way in.
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 Luxore Apartment Syokimau only once you have settled how you will get in and out, because the address is a driving address and little else. 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 Stay.Plus Luxore Apartment Syokimau?+
On Chady Road in Syokimau, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. It is 13.1 km from Muthurwa and the east markets, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat it as an outskirts address that you reach by road.
What does the property actually have?+
The listed facilities are free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair access. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, bar, pool or gym named, so plan on the room and your own arrangements for everything else.
Can I walk into the city centre from here?+
No. The centre is 14.22 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 178 minutes on foot in a direct line. You need a car or a lift into town, and you should arrange the return trip before you set out, not after dark.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability and free cancellation are shown when you search, and bookings run through app.impt.io. Confirm your dates first, then check that a room with lift access is free if you need one. Nothing is held without a confirmed booking.
