A furnished one bedroom apartment off Ring Rd Westlands Ln, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. Three stars, with free wifi, free parking, lifts and step-free access. The deciding point is the location: you get a whole flat and a parking space, but you are outside the central quarter and will travel in for anything in the city.
01What it is
Cozy and Furnished 1 Bedroom Apartment is a three star property on Ring Rd Westlands Ln in Greater Nairobi. The listed facilities are practical rather than decorative: free wifi with internet access in the lounge, free car parking, a laundry service, lifts and wheelchair access. That covers the basics for a longer stay, since you can wash clothes, park a car and move between floors without stairs. Where the list is thin is everything else. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no pool on the list, so the apartment is the whole of what you get.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat in a residential part of the city, not a hotel with services attached. Cozy and Furnished 1 Bedroom Apartment suits someone staying several nights who wants a kitchen, a parking space and level access, and who is happy to travel into the centre for meetings or meals. It does not suit a short leisure trip built around being on foot in the middle of things, and it does not suit anyone who wants a bar or a restaurant downstairs. The address is outside the quarter this site covers, and the evening is quiet by design.
02The supplier's photographs
036 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 this one if you want a whole apartment with parking rather than a room with a front desk. 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 the apartment, relative to central Nairobi?+
It is on Ring Rd Westlands Ln in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It sits 3.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 39 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on travelling in rather than walking out of the door into the centre.
What does the property actually provide?+
The listed facilities are free wifi with internet access in the lounge, free car parking, a laundry service, lifts and wheelchair access. The star rating is three. There is no restaurant, bar or gym on the list, so you are booking the apartment itself and the basics around it.
Is it within walking distance of the central quarters?+
No. It is 2.49 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is a real distance across a city, and the area around the property is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
How do I check availability and cancel if my plans change?+
Availability is shown when you book through app.impt.io, which is the booking route for this property. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so check the terms on the specific dates you want before you confirm. Eleven photos of the apartment are on file to look at first.
