A two bedroom serviced apartment on Westlands Rd, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, with a kitchen, a washing machine and a car park. Whether it suits you comes down to one thing: you need a car, because this is a residential street, not a quarter you step out into.
01What it is
2Bedroom GTC Luxury Apartment with city views C1402 is a four star apartment rather than a hotel, and the list reads like a flat that has been fitted out for longer stays: two bedrooms, a kitchen with an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, a toaster and a sink, a washing machine, an iron and board, a safe, and a dining and sitting area with a sofa bed, a TV and a telephone. The bathrooms have a bath, a shower, a bidet, a WC and towels. There is free wifi, a lift, wheelchair access, and free car parking. What the list is thin on is anything that makes it a hotel: no restaurant is named, no room service, no reception desk hours. The sauna, jacuzzi, spa and swimming pool are claimed as facilities, and a balcony and terrace come with the apartment, but none of it is described beyond the word.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat in a residential pocket of Greater Nairobi, and the decision is about location more than the room. 2Bedroom GTC Luxury Apartment with city views C1402 sits 1.73 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 2.28 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. Those are direct line figures, not a route you would want to walk with luggage. It suits a family, a pair of colleagues or a small group who want space, a kitchen and a parking space, and who will drive or be driven in and out. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre, and Westlands Rd itself does not give you that.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 1 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
Book this one by confirming the apartment, not just the building, because a two bedroom unit with a washing machine is not the same booking as a room. 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 this apartment?+
It is at 41 Westlands Rd in Greater Nairobi, not in the central business district. The centre is a direct line walk from the address rather than a short stroll: the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 1.73 km away. Plan on a car or a taxi for everything.
Does the apartment have a kitchen?+
Yes. The listing gives an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator, a toaster and a sink, plus a washing machine, an iron and board, and a safe. It is set up for cooking and for longer stays rather than for eating out, and there is no restaurant named on the list.
Is parking available, and do I need a car?+
Free car parking is listed, and a car is the practical answer here. Westlands Rd is a residential address in Greater Nairobi, and the centre is not on the doorstep. If you want to walk out into shops and food, this is the wrong base.
How do I check availability and cancel?+
Check availability and book through app.impt.io. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so confirm the cancellation terms when you book rather than assuming. The apartment is a specific unit, so check that the two bedroom layout is what you are holding.
