A 3 star apartment block on City Chicken Road in Greater Nairobi, with free wifi and free car parking. What decides it is the drive: you are a long way outside the centre, so this suits a self driving stay and not a walking one.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Maisawa Apartments is a 3 star property on City Chicken Road in Greater Nairobi, well away from the centre. What it lists is short and practical: free wifi, free car parking, parking, and wheelchair access. For a driver, the free parking matters more than anything else, because parking in the centre is hard. The list is thin beyond that. There is no restaurant, no bar, no airport transfer and no gym. Four facilities, one of them a duplicate of another, is all Stay.Plus Maisawa Apartments has on file, so come expecting a base and not a full service hotel.
What that adds up to is an apartment you sleep in and drive out from. Stay.Plus Maisawa Apartments sits in Greater Nairobi, 12.54 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 157 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the nearest quarter this site covers is 11.76 km off. That is a car first, everything else second arrangement, and it rules out anyone wanting to walk into town. The area is a market zone: trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables changing hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. It suits a driver who wants a quiet, cheap to park base and treats mornings as the time to move. It does not suit a visitor on foot, or anyone who wants the centre at night.
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
Booking this one is straightforward: you take a car, you take the free parking, and you sort the appartment before you arrive. 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 Maisawa Apartments?+
It is on City Chicken Road in Nairobi, listed under Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The site puts it 12.54 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 157 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan to arrive by car.
What facilities does the property actually list?+
Four: free wifi, free car parking, parking, and wheelchair access. Nothing else is on file. There is no restaurant or bar, so sort your own food. The free parking is the item most people will use.
What is the area around it like?+
It is a market street. Trucks, handcarts and the entire city's vegetables change hands at 5am, and after dark it is closed, dark and not a place to be. Mornings only is the honest reading of it, especially if you are walking.
How do I check availability for Stay.Plus Maisawa Apartments?+
Check dates and room types through app.impt.io, where most rooms can be cancelled free. If you need to be close to the centre rather than out in Greater Nairobi, look at the other properties on this site before you commit.
