A one bedroom apartment with a balcony and a rooftop gym on a ridge of new concrete, 4.37 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 55 minutes on foot in a direct line. Book it if you keep a car and want a kitchen; skip it if you want the centre on foot.
01What it is
Urban Retreat 1Bedroom with Balcony and Rooftop Gym is a 3 star apartment at Ambra Heights in Greater Nairobi, and the list is domestic rather than hotel-like. You get a kitchen and kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a coffee setup, free wifi, a desk, a TV, a balcony, an iron and board, a washing machine and cleaning. There is free car parking, a rooftop fitness center, lifts, 24 hour security with a safe and smoke detector, express check in, luggage storage, laundry service and a shuttle service. Bathrooms bring towels, toiletries, a shower, a WC and a bidet, plus slippers, and the rooms are non smoking and carpeted. Twelve photographs are on file. What the list is thin on is anything shared: no restaurant, no bar and no meeting space, so this is a self contained flat rather than a hotel with services around it.
For a stay at Urban Retreat 1Bedroom with Balcony and Rooftop Gym, that adds up to a quiet, practical flat on a ridge built for the car and the conference room, where the day is organised around driving to a meeting and coming back to cook. The gym, the parking and the washing machine make a week or more workable without hotel routines. It suits a couple or a single traveller with a car, a long project or a base away from the noise. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre, or who wants a bar and a restaurant downstairs, because the streets after dark are safe and dull.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 2 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 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 Urban Retreat 1Bedroom with Balcony and Rooftop Gym as a flat rather than a hotel, and settle the apartment style and the parking before you confirm. 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 Urban Retreat 1Bedroom with Balcony and Rooftop Gym?+
It is at Ambra Heights in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete. It stands 4.37 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 55 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.3 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
Does the apartment have a kitchen and a washing machine?+
Yes. The listing includes a kitchen and kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a coffee setup, and a washing machine with an iron and board. That makes a longer stay easier, since you can cook and wash clothes instead of relying on hotel services.
How do I get around from this address?+
The area is built for the car and the conference room, and the apartment comes with free car parking and a shuttle service. After dark it is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. Treat a car as the assumption here.
What should I know before booking this apartment?+
It has a balcony, a rooftop gym, a desk, free wifi, a safe, 24 hour security and lifts, with non smoking, carpeted rooms. There is no restaurant or bar on the property, so check that the flat arrangement fits before you reserve it.
