A three star serviced address on Limuru Road, outside the centre and built for people moving by car. Free parking and free wifi are the whole of the offer. If you want to walk to meetings on Kenyatta Avenue, this is the wrong base. If you have a vehicle and business north of town, it works.
01What it is
The Studio Nairobi 5 Luxury is a three star property on Limuru Road, listed at Kawamu Apartments. What it actually advertises is short: free wifi, free car parking, and wheelchair access. Those three are worth having. Parking matters most here, because this is a car address and you will need somewhere to leave the vehicle. Wheelchair access is listed, which is more than many small Nairobi properties manage. Otherwise the list is thin. There is no restaurant, no gym, no airport transfer, no workspace, no laundry, and nothing said about the rooms themselves. Twelve photographs are on file, and they are the only further description you get.
For the right visitor, The Studio Nairobi 5 Luxury is a functional base and not much else. The free parking and free wifi cover the two things a working visitor needs first, and the wheelchair access opens the place to travellers who often have to rule out small Nairobi properties. What it does not give you is the centre. It sits in Greater Nairobi, well away from the ten quarters this site covers, and the street outside is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. That means a car, not a stroll, and it means you are not here for the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 The Studio Nairobi 5 Luxury once you have worked out how you are getting around, because the parking decides whether this place suits you. 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 The Studio Nairobi 5 Luxury?+
It is at Kawamu Apartments on Limuru Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The site measures it at 10.8 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 136 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat it as a car address rather than a walking one.
What facilities does the property list?+
Three: free wifi, free car parking, and wheelchair accessible. There is no restaurant, no gym and no shuttle in the listing. The parking is the one that shapes a stay here, since the location assumes you have a vehicle.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
By car. The property is 10.26 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The surrounding streets read as a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the sensible approach is to cross it in a vehicle and return the same way.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room details sit with the booking partner, since the property publishes nothing about its rooms here. Check the listing directly. Free cancellation applies to most rooms, so you can hold a date while you sort out transport.
