A three star serviced block on Lumumba Drive in Greater Nairobi, well outside the central quarter, with parking, lifts and step free access. Whether it is right for you turns on one thing: if you are driving and want to be out on the city's edge, it works, and if you want to walk into the centre, it does not.
01What it is
Stay.Plus Royal Suburbs By Tsavo is a three star property on Lumumba Drive, listed under Greater Nairobi rather than in the central quarter itself. The facilities on file are short and practical: free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair access. That is the whole of it. Free parking and a lift are the two a visitor will actually feel, because they decide whether you arrive by car and whether stairs are part of your day. Wheelchair accessible is a real commitment on paper and worth confirming in writing before you book, since a listing does not say which entrances, rooms or bathrooms it covers. Beyond those four lines there is nothing recorded here about dining, a gym, a pool or a bar, so treat the list as the extent of what is known, not as a starting point.
Stay.Plus Royal Suburbs By Tsavo suits a driver. It sits in Greater Nairobi, and the address is on Lumumba Drive, so the car is the assumption the property is built around. Stay.Plus Royal Suburbs By Tsavo does not suit someone who wants the Central Business District on foot. It is 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, to be crossed by car. Book it to sleep and park, not to walk out.
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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one directly and confirm the accessible room and the parking space in writing, because those two lines are the reason to choose it. 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 Royal Suburbs By Tsavo?+
It is on Lumumba Drive in Greater Nairobi, on the edge of the city rather than in the central quarter. The site records it as 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on arriving by car.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, parking, lifts and wheelchair access, and it is a three star property. That is the full list on file. Nothing is recorded about restaurants, a pool, a gym or a bar, so if any of those matter to you, ask the property before you book.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You do it by car. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Ngara and the Globe, 9.65 km away. The street itself is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page and put in your dates. Availability is live, so it will show you what is open for your stay. If you need a wheelchair accessible room or a parking space held for you, confirm it in writing with the property at the time you book.