A serviced two bedroom apartment on Ojijo Road in Parklands, with a full kitchen and parking. The one thing that decides it is whether you want to cook and stay a while rather than take a hotel room in the middle of the centre.
01What it is
The A3 Fully Furnished and Serviced 2 Bedroom Apartment in Westlands Parklands Nairobi is a three star apartment, not a hotel, and the list reads like a flat that has been kitted out for a long stay: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and washing machine, alongside towels, toiletries, slippers, hairdryer, iron and board, and a safe. There is a desk, a fan, carpeting, a balcony and a patio, and bathrooms with shower, bidet and WC. Free wifi, free car parking, room service, laundry service, cleaning and breakfast are listed. Non smoking rooms, smoke detector and first aid cover the practical side. The thin part is the sleeping and living detail: nothing describes the beds, the layout or how the two bedrooms differ, and the bars in the list sit oddly against an apartment.
For someone staying here, the A3 Fully Furnished and Serviced 2 Bedroom Apartment in Westlands Parklands Nairobi is set up around feeding yourself and settling in. A washing machine, an oven and a fridge change what a week in Nairobi looks like, and free parking matters if you are keeping a car. Breakfast, cleaning and laundry mean you are not doing everything. The address is on Ojijo Road in Parklands, away from the hotel core, and the centre it is measured against, Biashara Street and City Market, is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. You want this place if you are staying several nights, travelling as a pair or a small group, and would rather cook than eat out every night. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the middle of the city, and it does not suit a short single night.
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 in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is 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. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book the A3 Fully Furnished and Serviced 2 Bedroom Apartment in Westlands Parklands Nairobi if you want the apartment rather than a room, and check the dates before you plan around it. 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 the apartment?+
It is at 32 Ojijo Road, in Parklands, Nairobi. That is 1.28 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market. It is an apartment address rather than a hotel one, so you are not arriving into a lobby in the middle of the commercial centre.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
Two bedrooms, a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, and a washing machine. Towels, toiletries, slippers, hairdryer and iron and board are listed, plus free wifi, free car parking, room service, laundry service, cleaning and breakfast.
What is the area around Biashara Street and City Market like?+
Biashara Street and City Market is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan your evenings somewhere else. The apartment is 1.76 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 22 minutes on foot in a direct line.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and dates are handled through app.impt.io. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you settle your plans. If you need the two bedrooms for a longer stay, book early rather than assuming the apartment will still be open.
