A four star apartment building on Westlands Road, with kitchens, balconies and parking on the ninth floor. The full kitchen and the Westlands address are what decide it: this is for longer stays and for people who want their own front door, not for anyone who wants to walk out into the centre's daytime streets.
01What it is
Kasty O Apartments W Place is a four star apartment property on Westlands Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The list is a working kitchen and a long-stay set: kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, iron and board, plus towels, toiletries and slippers. Free wifi and internet access, free car parking and lifts are all listed. Balcony, terrace, carpeted floors and non smoking rooms appear too, along with TV, shower, WC, water and a smoke detector. The list is thin on the things a short-stay hotel usually carries: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no meeting rooms, no airport transfer, no laundry service, no room service, no air conditioning, no safe and no breakfast. Treat it as self-catering and you will read the list correctly.
What that adds up to is an apartment you run yourself, on the ninth floor of a building on Westlands Road. You cook, you park, you come and go. The address sits in Westlands, not in the quarter this site covers, and the centre is a separate trip rather than a step outside. Kasty O Apartments W Place suits people staying several nights or longer who want a kitchen, a balcony, parking and their own routine, and who are happy to travel in for the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants a lobby, a bar downstairs, a restaurant, or the central business district on foot from the door.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 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 Kasty O Apartments W Place if you want a kitchen and a Westlands address, and check the cancellation terms 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 exactly is Kasty O Apartments W Place?+
It is on the ninth floor of W Place on Westlands Road, in Westlands, Nairobi. That is Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district: it sits 2.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 35 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.21 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment list in the way of facilities?+
Kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, iron and board, towels, toiletries, slippers, free wifi, internet access, free car parking, lifts, balcony, terrace and non smoking rooms. There is no restaurant, bar or room service, so plan to cook or eat out nearby in Westlands.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
Westlands is a separate trip from the central business district, not a walk out of the door. You arrange your own transport to Kenyatta Avenue or Biashara Street and back. Build that trip into your day rather than assuming you can step out of the building and be in the centre.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so you can hold a set of dates while you settle your plans. Check the listed dates and the cancellation terms on the booking page before you confirm anything.
