A four star apartment hotel on Lantana Road in Greater Nairobi, with kitchens, a pool, a sauna and a bar on site. The kitchens and the space are what decide it: this suits a longer stay or a family, and it does not suit anyone who wants the centre on their doorstep.
01What it is
Brickwood Suites lists apartments rather than plain rooms, and that changes the list. You get a kitchen with a microwave and a refrigerator, a bathroom with a bath or shower, a bidet, a WC, towels and toiletries, and rooms that are air conditioned, non smoking and set up for families. Outside the apartment there is an outdoor pool, a sauna and a jacuzzi, a bar, a terrace and a patio, free wifi and internet access, and a TV in the room. Slippers and high chairs are on the list too. Where the list thins out is everything around the edges: no reception hours, no dining beyond the bar, no gym, and no sense of what the building sits in beyond Lantana Road itself.
For someone staying here, Brickwood Suites works as a self-contained base in Greater Nairobi rather than a hotel you step out of into the city. The kitchen, the pool and the sauna mean the apartment can carry a whole day without you leaving it, which is the point if you are here for longer than a night or travelling with children. It is 3.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. If you want to walk out of a lobby into the centre, this is the wrong address; if you want space, a kitchen and a quiet building, it fits.
02The supplier's photographs
0328 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 Suites directly if you want an apartment with a kitchen and you are not relying on walking into the centre. 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 Brickwood Suites?+
It is on Lantana Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the Central Business District rather than in it. It is 2.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so plan on a vehicle rather than a walk for the centre.
Do the rooms have kitchens?+
Yes. The list includes apartments with a kitchen, a microwave and a refrigerator, plus a bath or shower, a bidet, a WC, towels and toiletries. Rooms are air conditioned and non smoking, with a balcony or patio on the list and family rooms available.
What is there to do at the property itself?+
There is an outdoor pool, a sauna and a jacuzzi, along with a bar, a terrace and a patio. Free wifi and internet access cover the building, and TVs are in the rooms. There is no restaurant or gym on the list, so most meals come out of the kitchen.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown on app.impt.io, where you book. Most rooms here can be cancelled free. If you need a family room, a balcony or a specific apartment layout, check what is open before you commit, since the apartment types differ.
