A 3 star apartment block on Westlands Ave in Greater Nairobi, with a pool, spa and sauna on site, parking and wifi included. The distance from the centre decides it: this suits you if you want self-contained facilities and a base outside the quarter, and it is wrong if you want to step out into the centre.
01What it is
Chasewood Park Apartments lists its leisure side plainly: an outdoor pool, a sauna, a steam room, a spa and a terrace, with a garden and a picnic area for sitting out. Indoors there is a lounge, lifts, luggage storage, free wifi and free internet access in the lounge, plus dry cleaning. Parking and free car parking are both listed, and the property says it is wheelchair accessible. The list is thin on the things a longer stay usually needs: no kitchen equipment, no laundry beyond dry cleaning, no gym and no restaurant or bar of its own.
For someone staying at Chasewood Park Apartments, that adds up to a contained, quiet place to sleep and unwind, with the wet facilities doing most of the work. The trade is location. Westlands Ave is in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, and this site's own line on the nearest quarter is that it is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. So Chasewood Park Apartments suits a traveller who wants a pool, a sauna and a parking space and does not mind being away from the middle of things. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0318 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 Chasewood Park Apartments if the pool and sauna matter more to you than being inside the centre, and check the dates before you commit. 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 Chasewood Park Apartments?+
The address is 27 Westlands Ave, Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the Central Business District itself. The property is 3.15 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 3.74 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What facilities does Chasewood Park Apartments list?+
An outdoor pool, sauna, steam room, spa and terrace sit alongside a garden and picnic area. Inside there are lifts, a lounge, luggage storage, free wifi, free internet access in the lounge and dry cleaning. Parking and free car parking are listed, and the property says it is wheelchair accessible. It is a 3 star address.
What is the area around Westlands Ave like?+
This site's own line is that it is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide, and that it is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Treat Westlands Ave as a base rather than a place to spend the evening.
How do I check whether Chasewood Park Apartments has a room free?+
Availability is checked by date through app.impt.io, where the rooms that can be cancelled free are marked. If your dates are not open, the site shows what else is on in Greater Nairobi for the same nights, so you can compare before you decide.
