Sundown loft is a four star apartment on the tenth floor of Avana Apartment on Riara Road, on the new concrete ridge out in Greater Nairobi. It is a self-catering flat with a full kitchen, laundry, parking and a pool, and it is built for a car. Without one, and without business on this side of town, it is the wrong pick.
01What it is
Sundown loft lists as an apartment rather than a room, and the working parts are all there: a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, an iron and board, a desk, air conditioning plus a fan, a fireplace, and a bathroom with shower, WC, toiletries, towels, hairdryer and slippers. Building services cover 24 hour security, lifts, luggage storage, cleaning, laundry service, free wifi, free car parking, a safe, smoke detectors, non smoking rooms and a garden. Two listed items sit oddly on the tenth floor of a city apartment: an outdoor pool and a golf course. The list is thin on anything a short-stay visitor would want on the doorstep. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer and no concierge, and the bowling entry is facility boilerplate rather than something attached to the flat.
Sundown loft makes sense if you are in Nairobi for more than a few nights and want to cook, wash clothes and park a car without paying hotel extras for each. The tenth floor position gives you distance from street level, the lifts and 24 hour security make late returns straightforward, and the kitchen and laundry mean a longer stay costs less effort than a hotel room. It does not suit a first-time visitor who wants to walk to the centre. Riara Road is car country, and the trade-off for the space is that everything is a drive. The apartment is a base for a self-driving stay on this ridge, not a city-centre hotel.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 4 more on the supplier's own record. 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Sundown loft is an apartment with a kitchen and free parking, so book it when you have a car and a stay long enough to use both. 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 Sundown loft?+
It is on Riara Road, on the tenth floor of Avana Apartment, in Greater Nairobi. That places it 5.98 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 7.48 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 94 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the apartment itself include?+
You get a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, an iron and board, a desk, air conditioning and a fan, and a bathroom with shower, WC, toiletries, towels, hairdryer and slippers. The building adds free wifi, free car parking, lifts, luggage storage, laundry service, 24 hour security, a safe and non smoking rooms.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
Yes, in practice. The street is described as new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Free parking is provided, and the pool, garden, fireplace and kitchen all reward a stay where you are not relying on your feet.
How do I check availability for Sundown loft?+
Use the booking link on this page at app.impt.io. You pick your dates there and see what is free in the tenth floor apartment on Riara Road. There is no phone number or email in this listing, and no walk-in counter described, so booking online is the route in.
