A four star apartment block on Sore Road in Greater Nairobi, set among industrial land and sheds. The self-catering kitchen is what decides it. Stay if you want your own cooking space and you have a car. Look elsewhere if you want to step out into the centre.
01What it is
Sunnyside Apartment lists apartment units with a kitchen and kitchenette, so you cook for yourself rather than eat out. There is a refrigerator, microwave, oven and toaster to go with it, plus towels, sheets, an iron and board, and a safe. Air conditioning and a fan cover the heat, and there is a balcony, patio and terrace. The bar and lounge, market, barber and beauty salon, bike rental and babysitting all appear on the list. Cleaning and housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, 24 hour security and security features, lifts, parking and valet parking, free wifi and internet access are all listed. The list is thinner on the details that make an apartment run day to day: no dishwashing supplies, no named cookware beyond the appliances, nothing about how servicing works if you stay longer than a few nights.
What Sunnyside Apartment adds up to is a self-contained base rather than a place to linger in the city. You get a working kitchen, a bed, a bathroom with a shower and WC, a TV with pay per view, and a sofa bed, which together suit a family or a longer stay better than a hotel room does. You need a car. Sore Road is wide industrial land with sheds, and the area is industrial and unlit in stretches after dark: daylight only, and a car back. This is not the base for someone who wants to walk out of a lobby into the centre. It suits a self-catering stay with your own transport, and it does not suit a first visit built on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 11 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 the centre. They sit well outside it, in the inner suburbs, past the ten quarters this site covers. The nearest of those quarters, for orientation only, is The Railway Quarter, on the southern edge of the grid, and that is as close as the connection goes. You are in the wider city here. Anything in the CBD means travelling in and out, so plan the day around that rather than around a short step from your room.
The Railway Quarter itself is wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here, the museum, and understanding the city's whole layout in one afternoon. Nairobi exists because the Uganda Railway stopped here in 1899 to gather strength for the Rift; the 1929 station, the old yards and the museum of locomotives sit on the CBD's southern boundary, ten minutes below Kenyatta Avenue. After dark it is industrial and unlit in stretches, so keep it to daylight and a car back.
Read the nearest quarter, The Railway Quarter05Booking it
Book Sunnyside Apartment if the kitchen and the car space matter more to you than the address, and treat the surroundings as a reason to drive rather than walk. 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 Sunnyside Apartment?+
It is on Sore Road, Solace Apartment, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 4.32 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 55 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.45 km from The Railway Quarter, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment actually include?+
Apartments with a kitchen and kitchenette, refrigerator, microwave, oven and toaster, plus air conditioning, a fan, towels, sheets, an iron and board and a safe. Free wifi, a bar and lounge, a market, a salon, bike rental and babysitting are also listed, along with parking and valet parking.
What is the area around Sore Road like?+
Wide industrial land, sheds, and the reason any of this is here. It is industrial and unlit in stretches after dark, so treat it as daylight only, and a car back. Having your own transport or a driver makes the stay far easier than walking.
How do I check availability?+
Availability is checked at the point of booking, and the listing is booked through app.impt.io. The apartment is a four star property in Greater Nairobi, and the confirmed rate and what remains open for your dates are shown there rather than quoted in advance.
