A three star apartment block on School Lane in Greater Nairobi, well west of the centre and outside the quarter this site covers. It lists free parking, lifts and wheelchair access and nothing else, so it decides itself: you need a car, or you are not staying here.
01What it is
Border Point Westlands View Palace Apart is a three star property on School Lane in Greater Nairobi, and the facilities on file are short and practical: free car parking, lifts, and wheelchair accessible. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, no bar, no pool and no gym recorded, so you should treat those as absent rather than assume them. The parking is the listing that matters, because nothing else on the sheet addresses how you get in and out, and the lifts plus wheelchair access make it one of the few places in this set that a person with limited mobility can use without first checking. Two of the three touch a car, and one touches access, and that is the shape of the property.
What that adds up to for a stay is simple: Border Point Westlands View Palace Apart is a base for someone arriving with a vehicle and no interest in walking the centre. It sits 4.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is also 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. If you want to be inside the quarter, this is the wrong side of it. If you have a car, need a lift or step free access, and want to arrive and park, it fits. If you are on foot, it does not.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 only if you are arriving with a car, because the parking is the reason to pick it over anything closer in. 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 property?+
On School Lane in Nairobi, inside Greater Nairobi rather than in the Central Business District itself. It is 4.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line, so it works as a base for the west of the city.
What facilities does it actually list?+
Three: free car parking, lifts, and wheelchair accessible. There is no restaurant or bar on the list, and no pool or gym either. Treat the list as complete, since the supplier has given nothing more to work from.
Can I get into the centre from there without driving?+
The distances are real ones. It is also 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is a long way on foot, and the quarter itself is a daytime one, with the halls shut in the late afternoon.
How do I check availability?+
Availability sits on the booking page for this property and shows what is open on your dates. Rooms can be cancelled free in most cases, and you book them through app.impt.io. Check the room you want before you commit to the trip.
