A serviced apartment block on Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, with kitchens, a pool and free parking. The location decides it: you need a car or a driver for the centre, and the quarter you are coming for shuts in the late afternoon.
01What it is
Cosy Home in Westlands is a 4 star apartment property, and the facilities list reads like a flat rather than a hotel room: kitchen and kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, coffee, plus bath, bidet, shower, toiletries, towels and slippers. There is air conditioning and a fan, a desk, a safe, a sofa bed, carpeted rooms, a balcony and a terrace, lifts, free wifi, housekeeping, laundry service, iron and board, room service and non smoking rooms. Outside are a garden and an outdoor pool, plus free car parking, car rental service and 24H security with smoke detectors, first aid and security features. Food and drink are thin: a bar and snack cafe, bars, lunch, and a note about special diets, but no restaurant. The list runs wide rather than deep, and it says apartments, so expect a kitchen rather than a front desk.
What that adds up to at Cosy Home in Westlands is a self-catering base for a longer stay or a group, where the pool, the parking and the kitchen do the work and the address does the rest. It suits someone with a car, a driver or a reason to be in Westlands, and it suits anyone who wants to cook rather than eat out every night. It does not suit a first visit built on the centre on foot. The site's line holds: this is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 14 more on the supplier's own record. 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 Cosy Home in Westlands directly if you want an apartment with a kitchen and parking rather than a hotel with a lobby, and check the apartment type 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 Cosy Home in Westlands?+
On Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The site puts it 2.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the property lists free car parking and a car rental service for getting around.
Is it practical without a car?+
It sits outside the centre, so a car or a driver makes the stay much easier, and the property lists both parking and car rental service. The nearest quarter the site covers is a short drive rather than a step out of the door, and the centre is the other direction.
What is in the apartments?+
Kitchen and kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator and coffee, plus bath, bidet, shower, toiletries, towels and slippers. Also air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a safe, a sofa bed, a balcony or terrace, free wifi, TV, housekeeping and laundry service. Some rooms are carpeted and all are non smoking.
How do I check availability and cancel?+
Book through app.impt.io and check the dates against the apartment type you want, since the property is listed as apartments rather than standard rooms. Most rooms here can be cancelled free under the terms shown at booking.
