A four star apartment hotel on Kolobot Drive with kitchens, a pool and a garden, a short way from the city centre. The apartment format decides it: good if you want space and to cook for yourself, less good if you want to step out into the middle of things.
01What it is
Heri Heights Hotel Apartments SureStay Collection by BW is a four star property on Kolobot Drive off Arboretum Road. The list is built around apartment living: kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven, toaster, refrigerator and washing machine, plus balcony, terrace, garden and outdoor pool with a kids pool and playground. There is a restaurant and bar, room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, banquet and picnic areas, spa, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk and security, shuttle and car rental, laundry and dry cleaning, family rooms, non smoking rooms.
The facilities at Heri Heights Hotel Apartments SureStay Collection by BW suit a stay of several days more than a single night. A kitchen and a washing machine change what a trip costs and how it runs. The address sits away from the centre, so the pool, garden and playground matter more here, while the thin parts are transport beyond the shuttle and car rental. It suits families, longer stays and anyone who wants to cook. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on the doorstep. The guest score is 4.3 out of 5 from 179 reviews, which places Heri Heights Hotel Apartments SureStay Collection by BW in solid territory for a four star apartment hotel without claiming more than that.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 27 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is 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. It is best for kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Heri Heights Hotel Apartments for the apartment and the pool, and go in clear about the address, because the centre is not on the doorstep. 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 Heri Heights Hotel Apartments SureStay Collection by BW?+
It is on Kolobot Drive off Arboretum Road in Nairobi, 1.88 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it outside the central business district rather than inside it, so plan on a shuttle, car rental or your own vehicle for the city.
What does the property actually list?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with microwave, oven, toaster, refrigerator and washing machine, plus balcony, terrace, garden, outdoor pool, kids pool, playground, restaurant, bar, room service, spa, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk and security, family rooms and non smoking rooms. The emphasis is self-catering space and family facilities rather than a central location.
How do I get into the centre from Biashara Street and City Market?+
The property is 1.26 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market. That quarter is narrow, shaded and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so an evening there is not the draw.
What does the guest score mean?+
It stands at 4.3 out of 5 from 179 reviews. Read that as a solid four star apartment hotel that does what it lists well enough, rather than a standout. It tells you the kitchens and family facilities land, and says nothing about how close you are to the centre.
