A three star hotel off Mvuli Road in Westlands, with free parking, a garden and a night club on the list. It suits anyone who wants to leave a car and stay out of the centre, and it does not suit anyone who wants the business quarter on the doorstep.
01What it is
Appleton Resort is a 3 star property on Sports Road off Mvuli Road in Westlands. The list is built around the practical: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, a business centre, a meeting room, a concierge and a shuttle service. For sitting about there is a garden, a terrace, a picnic area, a playground, a smoking area and a TV. Eating and drinking is bars and coffee, and after dark there is a night club. Wheelchair access is listed. What the list does not do is describe any of it: no room detail, no restaurant, no gym or pool, and no sense of how large the place is. Surcharge sits in the list with no explanation.
What that adds up to is a hotel that handles the mechanics and says little about comfort. Appleton Resort covers parking, laundry, a business centre, a front desk that never closes and somewhere to eat breakfast, which is enough if Westlands is the point of your stay or you are using the shuttle rather than walking. It is 4.28 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line, so it sits outside the centre rather than beside it. Book it if you want your own car, a quiet garden and a night club downstairs, and accept that the room is a three star room. Do not book it if you want to be in the Central Business District, because being outside it is the whole arrangement.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book this one if you want Westlands and a place for the car, and check the room type before you commit, because three star covers a range and the listing does not tell you which end you are getting. 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 Appleton Resort?+
It is on Sports Road off Mvuli Road in Westlands, in the Greater Nairobi area rather than in the Central Business District. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.68 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Westlands is the surrounding district.
What does Appleton Resort have on site?+
Free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, a business centre, a meeting room, a concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, a shuttle service, bars, coffee, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area, a playground, a smoking area, a night club and wheelchair access. The list is thin on room details and there is no gym or pool.
How do I get into the centre from Appleton Resort?+
It is 4.28 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the distance in a straight line, so the actual route is longer. The property lists a shuttle service, which is the practical option if you are going in. Otherwise you take a car.
What does the guest score mean?+
Appleton Resort scores 3.9 out of 5 from 408 reviews. That is a solid three star result: most people come away satisfied, and the complaints you would expect at this level are about room quality rather than the service. Treat it as adequate rather than comfortable. There is no separate rating for the night club or the rooms.
