A one bedroom apartment on Westlands Road, west of the centre, with its own kitchen and a pool. The thing that decides it is the location: this is Greater Nairobi, not the quarter, so you want a car or a driver, and a stay of more than one night.
01What it is
Elite Residence 1BR Apartment is a five star serviced flat rather than a hotel room. The list is built for living: a kitchen and kitchenette, a washing machine, an iron and board, a balcony, free wifi, a TV, and free car parking. Non smoking rooms and a smoke detector are noted. There is an outdoor pool. Where the list is thin is the things a hotel does for you: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, nothing about housekeeping or a front desk.
Elite Residence 1BR Apartment makes sense as a base you run yourself. You cook, you wash, you park the car, you use the pool at the end of the day. It is 2.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. It suits people on a longer stay, people working in or around Westlands, and anyone with a vehicle. It does not suit a first visit of one night, or anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 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 direct for this apartment if you want the kitchen and the parking, and read the cancellation terms before you commit dates. 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 Elite Residence 1BR Apartment?+
On Westlands Road, in Greater Nairobi, west of the central business district. It is 1.74 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is the quarter you are outside of, not inside.
Can you walk into the centre from here?+
You can, but it is a long walk. The apartment is 2.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. Most people staying on Westlands Road use a car or a driver for the centre.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
A kitchen and kitchenette, a washing machine, an iron and board, a balcony, free wifi, a TV and free car parking. There is an outdoor pool and a smoke detector, and the rooms are non smoking. There is no restaurant, bar or gym on the list.
How do you check availability?+
Availability and dates are handled through app.impt.io. Put in your nights and the apartment is confirmed or not straight away. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold dates while you sort out the rest of the trip.
