A five star serviced apartment block on Ojijo Road in Greater Nairobi, with full kitchens, a pool, a gym and parking. It suits people staying a while who want to cook and drive themselves. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre.
01What it is
Taarifa Suites by Dunhill Serviced Apartments lists apartments rather than rooms, and the kitchen is the point: oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board, plus housekeeping and a laundry service for the days you would rather not. Air conditioning, a desk, a TV, a DVD player, a safe, a hairdryer and toiletries cover the rest of the flat. The building adds a restaurant, a lounge, a garden, an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a steam room, lifts, luggage storage, free wifi, free car parking, 24H. Security, first aid and wheelchair access. The list is thin on the small things a five star name leads you to expect: no business centre, no airport transfer, no concierge, nothing about a bar, and no guest score on file.
What that adds up to at Taarifa Suites by Dunhill Serviced Apartments is a self contained stay. You land, you park, you cook, you swim, you sleep, and you do not need the city for anything except the reason you came. The centre is elsewhere: Ojijo Road sits 1.64 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the quarter it belongs to is a daytime quarter, its halls shut in the late afternoon and its streets empty with them. So this suits a longer stay, a family, or anyone working to their own schedule inside Greater Nairobi, and it does not suit a visitor who wants the old centre on foot, an evening bar downstairs, or a lobby with a doorman. Book it directly if the apartment is the reason you are coming.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 13 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 sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. The oldest retail streets in the city: Biashara for cloth and haberdashery, Muindi Mbingu for flowers, and the 1930s City Market hall behind them for produce, curios and a fish counter. Jamia Mosque's three silver domes close the block. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Reserve Taarifa Suites by Dunhill Serviced Apartments for the nights you want a kitchen and a parking space rather than a concierge. 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 is Taarifa Suites by Dunhill Serviced Apartments?+
On Ojijo Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the old centre. The block is 2.12 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 27 minutes on foot in a direct line. Driving is the practical way in from here, and the site's street note for the quarter describes narrow, shaded lanes.
What do the apartments include?+
Every apartment lists a kitchen or kitchenette with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, air conditioning, a desk, a TV and a safe. The building adds a restaurant, a lounge, a garden, an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a steam room, lifts and free car parking.
Is it in the Central Business District?+
No. It sits in Greater Nairobi, 1.64 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That quarter is a daytime quarter: its halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan your evenings elsewhere.
How do I check availability?+
Availability, apartment types and dates are shown when you book through app.impt.io, where most rooms here can be cancelled free. The site holds no rates and quotes no prices, so compare what is offered there against the kitchen, parking and pool you actually need.
