A three star furnished one bed apartment on Westlands Close Road, listed with free wifi, free parking and wheelchair access. The parking is what decides it: this is a place for someone arriving with a car, and a poor fit for anyone planning to walk into the centre every day.
01What it is
Captivating 1 bed Furnished Apartment in Nairobi is listed as a three star property on Westlands Close Road, and the facilities on file are only three: free wifi, free car parking and wheelchair access. The wifi and the parking are the two a visitor will actually use, and the wheelchair access matters if you need step free movement through the building. The list is otherwise thin. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no lift and no workspace noted, so treat anything beyond those three lines as unconfirmed until you ask.
What that adds up to is self catering with an easy car. You keep your own hours, park on site rather than hunting street space, and treat the apartment as a base for a longer Nairobi stay rather than a serviced hotel. That suits drivers, people working across the city, and anyone who wants a kitchen and a parking bay in the same place. It does not suit visitors without a car who expect to walk into the centre for dinner, or anyone who wants staff on hand through the day.
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
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
Ask the property directly about parking, wheelchair access and what the apartment contains before you confirm, since only three facilities are on file here. 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 Captivating 1 bed Furnished Apartment in Nairobi?+
It sits on Westlands Close Road in Greater Nairobi, 2.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 35 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.18 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it outside the main hotel streets.
What facilities does the property actually list?+
Only three: free wifi, free car parking and wheelchair access, on a three star listing. That is the whole of what is confirmed. There is no restaurant, bar, gym or workspace on file, so ask the property about anything else you need before booking. A kitchen is likely in a furnished apartment but is not confirmed.
Can I walk from the apartment into the centre?+
The centre is 2.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 35 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the nearest quarter is 2.18 km from Biashara Street and City Market. The centre is a daytime quarter, with the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so many visitors will want a car or a ride back.
How do I check availability at this apartment?+
Availability and the full facility list are confirmed at booking through app.impt.io, where you can also see which rooms can be cancelled free. Because only three facilities are on file here, it is worth messaging the property about parking, access and what the apartment contains before you commit.
