A Westlands apartment block with a rooftop lounge, pool and gym, and the whole centre a short way off. It suits people staying a while who want to cook and keep their own schedule, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the door into the City Market lanes.
01What it is
Escada Studio & 2 bedroom Rooftop Lounge & Restaurant Swimming Pool Gym Workspace Wonderiss Properties Westlands Living is a 4 star apartment property on Lantana Road, in Westlands rather than in the centre itself. The list runs to self-contained living: kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, towels and toiletries, plus a desk, balcony, patio and terrace. There is free wifi, free car parking and a garage. A rooftop lounge and restaurant, a pool bar, an outdoor pool and a gymnasium are on the property, with 24 hour security, lifts, a cot, a safe and smoke detectors. Cleaning and laundry service are listed. The list is thin on detail: it does not say how many apartments there are, what the restaurant serves, or whether the pool and gym are open to every apartment, and it gives no sense of how the workspace is set up.
For someone staying here, that adds up to an apartment rather than a hotel room. Escada Studio & 2 bedroom Rooftop Lounge & Restaurant Swimming Pool Gym Workspace Wonderiss Properties Westlands Living gives you a kitchen and a washing machine, which changes a longer stay: you eat when you want and you do not live out of a suitcase. The pool, gym and rooftop lounge cover the hours you are not working, and the desk covers the hours you are. Its weakness is position. Westlands is not the Central Business District, so the daytime quarter described for the centre, narrow, shaded, shops one family wide, is not on your doorstep, and the halls there shut in the late afternoon. Book it if you want space and a kitchen and do not mind being outside the centre. Do not book it if your day is built around the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 5 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 this one directly if you want an apartment with a kitchen and you are settled on Westlands rather than the centre, and check the pool and gym arrangements with the property 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 is Escada Studio & 2 bedroom located?+
It is on Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, not inside the Central Business District. It is 2.65 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on moving between Westlands and the centre rather than walking out into the shopping streets.
What facilities does the property list?+
The list includes apartments with kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, towels and toiletries, plus a desk, balcony and terrace. There is free wifi, free car parking, a garage, 24 hour security and lifts. A rooftop lounge and restaurant, pool bar, outdoor pool and gymnasium are listed. The list does not say how many apartments there are or how the workspace is arranged.
Is it easy to get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Westlands sits outside the centre. The site gives the distance as 3.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a walk in one direction only; you will want a ride for the return, and the centre empties in the late afternoon anyway.
How do I check availability?+
Availability, apartment type and any pool or gym conditions are confirmed when you book through app.impt.io. The site holds no guest score for this property, so there is no rating to check. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and you can compare the studio against the two bedroom before you commit.
