A three star apartment block on Marcus Garvey Rd in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. Free parking, lifts and wheelchair access are the listed facilities. Whether it suits you turns on one thing: you are coming with a car, or you are not.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Marcus Apartment Kilimani lists four things: free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair accessible access. That is the whole of it. Parking appears twice in the list, which tells you what the property expects of its guests, and the lifts matter on a ridge where buildings go up rather than out. The wheelchair accessible line is worth asking about directly before you commit, because the list does not say which parts of the building it covers. There is no restaurant, no breakfast, no bar and no gym on the list. For a three star apartment in this part of the city that is not unusual, but you should arrive expecting to sort your own food and your own evenings.
What that adds up to is a place built around the car and the working day. Stay.Plus Marcus Apartment Kilimani sits on new concrete on a ridge, and the street around it was laid out for vehicles and conference rooms rather than for wandering. After dark the area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you are in Nairobi to drive to meetings, park downstairs and sleep, this works. If you want to step out of a lobby into the centre of things, it does not, and you should look at the centre itself.
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 Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one direct if you are bringing a car, since parking is the facility the property leads with. 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 Marcus Apartment Kilimani?+
It is on Marcus Garvey Rd in Kilimani, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It sits 2.22 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it is 3.76 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What facilities does the property list?+
Four: free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair accessible access. Parking is listed twice, so treat the car as the point of the place. There is no restaurant, bar, breakfast or gym in the list, and the wheelchair line does not say which areas it covers, so confirm that with the property.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
Greater Nairobi is not the centre, and this address is on a ridge built for the car and the conference room. Honestly, you want a vehicle for the run in, and the same for anything in the evening, because after dark it is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and you can see what is open on your dates there. There are no prices on this site, so the app is where you check what is free and what it costs.
