A three star furnished apartment on Diani Road, on the new concrete ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for the car and the conference room. The free parking and the outdoor pool are the deciding facts: this suits you if you are driving to meetings and do not need the centre at night.
01What it is
Tawa Furnished Apartment lists eight facilities across three groups. For the practical side there is free car parking, express check in, laundry service and multilingual staff. In the kitchen area it puts a microwave and a refrigerator in the unit, and in the living space a TV. Outside, it has an outdoor pool. The list is thin on anything else: no gym, no restaurant, no workspace, no bar of its own. The three star rating is consistent with that, a working base with the basics covered.
What that adds up to is a self-catering apartment on a ridge where the streets were laid out for cars and conferences. Tawa Furnished Apartment gives you parking, a fridge, a microwave and a pool, and leaves the eating and the evenings to the surrounding hotel bars. The distance is the catch. It is 5.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 72 minutes on foot in a direct line, so you want wheels or a ride for anything in the centre. It suits a driver on business, a small group, or anyone who wants to cook and park. It does not suit you if you plan to walk into the centre, use it as a base to see the city on foot, or want the halls and pavements of the CBD on your doorstep. It is also 4.21 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Even that closest quarter is a car trip away, not a stroll. The ridge is safe and dull after dark: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
038 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 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
Book Tawa Furnished Apartment only once you have decided how you are getting around Greater Nairobi, because the apartment solves parking and self-catering better than it solves the centre. 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 Tawa Furnished Apartment?+
It is on Diani Road in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than the business district itself. The site counts it 4.21 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so treat it as a place you reach by car.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
The listed facilities are a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV inside, plus an outdoor pool, free car parking, express check in, laundry service and multilingual staff. There is no restaurant, gym or workspace on the list, so plan meals and work around that.
Can I walk into the city centre from here?+
It is possible on paper and awkward in practice. The site records it as 5.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 72 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on driving or taking a ride, especially after dark.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and free cancellation terms are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Put in your dates there to see what is open. No prices are published on this site, so the booking page is where you get the details.
