A three star apartment block on East Church Road with a pool, free parking and a desk that never closes. It sits 2.82 km from Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest quarter this site covers, so what decides it for you is whether you want apartment space and a northern edge more than an address inside the centre.
01What it is
Brickwood Apartments lists an outdoor pool, free wifi, free car parking and a 24 hour front desk, along with express check in and express check out, luggage storage, newspapers and a concierge. There is dry cleaning, laundry and a bell boy, a smoking area, wheelchair access and a TV. The ballroom and wedding services point at functions rather than a quiet residential stay. The list is thin on eating: no restaurant or breakfast is named, and the single word surcharge sits unexplained.
What that adds up to at Brickwood Apartments is an apartment base in Greater Nairobi rather than a hotel inside the centre. The pool, the parking and the round the clock desk suit a longer stay or a family, and the ballroom means event traffic shares the building. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out into shops and offices, because the quarter is 2.82 km from Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and this part of the city is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0319 facilities the supplier lists
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 Brickwood Apartments as an apartment base on the northern edge and confirm what you actually get, because the facility list mentions a surcharge without saying what it covers. 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 Brickwood Apartments?+
It is on East Church Road in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It stands 3.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on a vehicle or a ride rather than a stroll into the centre.
What facilities does Brickwood Apartments list?+
The list names an outdoor pool, free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, express check in and check out, luggage storage, newspapers, a concierge, laundry, dry cleaning, a bell boy, a smoking area, wheelchair access, a TV, a ballroom and wedding services. No restaurant is named.
What is the area around East Church Road like?+
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. It is 2.82 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do I check availability at Brickwood Apartments?+
Use app.impt.io, where the rooms can be cancelled free in most cases. The page you are reading holds no live availability, so the booking site is the place to confirm what is open for your dates before you commit.
