A three star apart-hotel on Komo Lane in Kilimani, built around the kitchen rather than the lobby. The listed facilities run to a pool, a sauna and a fitness centre, but the property sits in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. The kitchen is what decides it: stay here if you want to cook and park a car.
01What it is
Tropical Towers Apartments lists a full apartment kit: kitchen, fridge, microwave, coffee, iron and board, hairdryer, bathrobe, toiletries, safe and TV, plus a lounge with free internet access and a CD player of all things. On site you get an outdoor pool, sauna, steam bath, fitness centre, garden and bars. There is a restaurant, breakfast, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, free car parking, multilingual staff and a shuttle service. Pets are not allowed. The list is oddly deep on wellness and thin on the one thing a business traveller checks first: there is no scheduled shuttle into the centre named, and no meeting room.
What that adds up to is an apartment rather than a hotel room, and that is the whole case for Tropical Towers Apartments. You get a kitchen, a fridge, a lounge and a place to park, which suits a longer stay, a family, or anyone working in Kilimani and Westlands rather than in the Central Business District. It does not suit a short leisure trip built around the centre. The quarter is 2.81 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the address is 4.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0332 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull, hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Tropical Towers Apartments if you want a kitchen, a pool and a parking space in Kilimani rather than a room in 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 exactly is Tropical Towers Apartments?+
It is on Komo Lane, off Wood Avenue Road in Kilimani, listed under Greater Nairobi rather than the Central Business District. The address is 4.31 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line. Kilimani is a residential and office quarter on a ridge.
What is in the apartments?+
The listing gives a kitchen, fridge, microwave, coffee, iron and board, hairdryer, bathrobe, toiletries, safe and TV, plus a lounge with free internet access. On site there is an outdoor pool, sauna, steam bath, fitness centre, garden and bars. Breakfast, a restaurant and laundry service are listed. Pets are not allowed.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
The distance is real but the walk is direct-line only, and the street feel around the property is built for the car and the conference room. Most people staying here drive, take the shuttle service or use a ride. After dark the area is quiet: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else.
What does the guest score mean?+
The property carries a guest score of 5 out of 5, drawn from a single review. Treat it as one opinion rather than a settled reputation, and weigh it against the listed facilities, the Kilimani location and the fact that this is a three star apart-hotel.
