A three star studio on Naivasha Road, on the ridge where Greater Nairobi builds for cars and conferences. Parking and a shuttle are what it lists, and the distance into the centre is the fact that decides whether it suits you.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Naivasha Road Studio Apartment is a three star address on Naivasha Road, and the facilities it lists are few and practical: free car parking, parking, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. If you are arriving with a vehicle and want somewhere to leave it, that list covers the basics. If you are not, the list is thin. There is no restaurant, no gym and no bar of its own, so you are not choosing this place for what happens inside it. You are choosing it for the plot it sits on.
What Stay.Plus Naivasha Road Studio Apartment adds up to is a base for someone whose day is already fixed elsewhere, in the conference rooms and compounds of Greater Nairobi, and who wants a plain room and a parking space at the end of it. The street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. That suits a driver on business. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the centre, because you cannot.
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 of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: 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 lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book this one if the parking and the quiet matter more to you than the address, and check the dates before you commit. 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 Naivasha Road Studio Apartment?+
It is on Naivasha Road in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area rather than in the Central Business District. It sits 9.64 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 121 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 8.44 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually list?+
Four things: free car parking, parking, a shuttle service and wheelchair access. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, bar or gym named on it, so plan to eat and spend your evening elsewhere. The parking and shuttle are the two items most guests will use.
Can you walk from there into the centre of Nairobi?+
You can, but you would not want to make it the plan. The direct line to Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 121 minutes on foot, and the street is built for cars. The shuttle the property lists, or a ride, is the realistic way in and out.
How do you check availability and book?+
You book through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free there, so you can hold dates while you settle your other plans. If you need parking or wheelchair access, say so when you book, since the property lists only a small number of facilities and it is worth confirming them.
