A 3 star serviced apartment block on Westlands Road, with full kitchens and an indoor pool in the building. The kitchen is what decides it: cook for yourself and the distance from the centre stops mattering, expect hotel service and it will.
01What it is
GTC Skyline Apartments by YourHost is a 3 star apartment property on Westlands Road. Each unit lists a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, and coffee. Bathrooms come with a bath, bidet, hairdryer, toiletries and towels. There is free wifi, a desk, a safe, a TV, smoke detectors and non smoking rooms. The building lists both an indoor pool and a swimming pool, free car parking, and laundry service. The list is thin on the things a hotel normally supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no airport transfer, and nothing about reception cover or housekeeping.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat rather than a hotel. GTC Skyline Apartments by YourHost suits someone staying several nights who wants to cook, wash clothes and park a car, and who treats the centre as somewhere to travel into rather than step out into. It does not suit anyone wanting meals on site, a bar downstairs or someone at a desk at any hour. The pool and the parking are the two extras worth having; the rest of the list is the ordinary equipment of a working flat.
02The supplier's photographs
0329 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 GTC Skyline Apartments by YourHost if you want a kitchen and a parking space on Westlands Road rather than a hotel with service attached. 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 GTC Skyline Apartments by YourHost?+
It is at 24 Westlands Road in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. It sits 2.46 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 31 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.91 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property list in the rooms?+
A kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, coffee, a bath, bidet, hairdryer, toiletries and towels, free wifi, a desk, a safe, a TV, smoke detectors and non smoking rooms. The building also lists an indoor pool, a swimming pool, free car parking and laundry service.
What is it like getting into the centre from there?+
You are outside the centre, so you travel in rather than walk out of the door into it. That district is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan your evenings around where you are staying, not around the centre.
How do I check availability?+
Go to app.impt.io and search for the dates you want. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you settle your plans. The booking is confirmed through that site and the cancellation terms apply to the room you choose.
