A four star two bedroom apartment on Lantana Road in Westlands, with a pool, a gym and parking. The one thing that decides it for you is the car: Westlands is not the centre, and this is a driving address.
01What it is
Exclusive 2BR in Westlands with Stunning City Views Pool & Gym is a four star apartment property on Lantana Road, in Aramis Apartments. The list is strongest on the practical: free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, security features, a safe, electronic room keys, express check in, lifts, non smoking rooms, a smoking area, laundry service, cleaning, first aid and room service. Leisure runs to an outdoor pool, a kids pool and a fitness center. Where it is thin is the ordinary hotel furniture: no restaurant, no bar, no meeting rooms, and no airport transfer are listed.
What that adds up to is a self contained stay rather than a serviced one. Exclusive 2BR in Westlands with Stunning City Views Pool & Gym gives you a full apartment, a pool for the children, a gym, a parking space and security that does not clock off, but you eat out or cook. It suits families, couples and anyone working in Westlands or the western side of the city with a car. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of a lobby into the centre, or who wants a concierge and a restaurant downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0319 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 direct if Westlands is your base, and read the access notes for Lantana Road before you confirm. 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 this apartment?+
It is on Lantana Road, in Aramis Apartments, in Westlands, which falls under Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It sits 3.43 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a driving or taxi address, not a walking one.
What does the property actually have?+
Two bedrooms, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour security, a safe, electronic room keys, express check in, lifts, laundry service, cleaning, room service, non smoking rooms and a smoking area. There is an outdoor pool, a kids pool and a fitness center. There is no restaurant or bar listed, so plan to self cater or eat out.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
You can, but it is a long walk in a direct line, and the centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Biashara Street and City Market are 2.83 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Take a car.
How do I check availability?+
Use app.impt.io to see open dates for this apartment. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and booking through that link carries the CO2 and credit terms described above. If your dates are not shown, the apartment is taken for that stretch, so try nearby Westlands addresses instead.
