A three star apartment block on Jabavu Road in Greater Nairobi, with parking, a pool and lifts. The distance from the centre is the whole decision: if you want to walk out of your door into the quarter, this is the wrong side of it.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Mpuuga Garden Apartment lists the practical things a driver notices first: free car parking and further parking, lifts, and wheelchair access through the building. It also lists an outdoor pool, under both an outdoor pool and a swimming pool entry, so the water is there, though nothing on file says whether it is heated or how it is supervised. That is the full list. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer and no meeting space named, and for a three star property the list is thin on anything you would use beyond the room and the car.
What that adds up to is a self contained block on a ridge of new concrete, built for the car and the conference room, where the working parts of the stay are parking, a lift and a pool. Stay.Plus Mpuuga Garden Apartment is on Jabavu Road, 3.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.8 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Book it if you are driving, if you want Upper Hill within reach, and if you accept that evenings here are safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Do not book it if you want the centre at your door.
02The supplier's photographs
036 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 on the strength of the parking and the lift, not the pool, since the facility list stops there. 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 Mpuuga Garden Apartment?+
It stands on Jabavu Road in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete built for the car and the conference room. That puts it 3.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.8 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the property list?+
Free car parking and further parking, lifts, wheelchair access, and an outdoor pool that also appears as a swimming pool. Nothing else is named. If you want a restaurant, a bar, a gym or a meeting room inside the building, this is not the property for it, and you would be going out for all of those.
What is it like around there after dark?+
The street reads as safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, so the life of the evening is elsewhere. If you want to step out into bars and restaurants, plan on taking a car rather than walking.
How do I check availability for my dates?+
Go to app.impt.io and enter your dates against Stay.Plus Mpuuga Garden Apartment. Booking runs through that app, most rooms can be cancelled free, and your confirmation is issued there. If the dates you want are not showing, try a different night or a different room type on the same listing.
