Kijani Apartment is a 3 star property on School Lane in Westlands, out in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre itself. The list is short and practical: parking, dry cleaning, a smoking area and wheelchair access. What settles it is the position. You want a car here, or a reason to be in Westlands.
01What it is
Kijani Apartment lists five things: dry cleaning service, free car parking, parking, a smoking area and wheelchair access. The parking is the headline, and it is the item that separates this property from most of what sits inside the central grid, where you arrive without a vehicle and leave the same way. Wheelchair access matters for anyone who needs step-free movement, and it is worth confirming the specific route and room before you commit, because a single line on a facility list does not tell you how far it runs. Dry cleaning is useful on a working stay. The smoking area is outdoors and segregated. That is the whole list, and it is thin on dining, laundry beyond dry cleaning, gym, workspace and the small services a long stay accumulates. Kijani Apartment is a 3 star property and the facilities read like it: functional, unfussy, and honest about what it offers.
What Kijani Apartment adds up to depends entirely on how you move. Westlands is a working district in Greater Nairobi, and this is a 3 star apartment with a parking space attached, which is the whole proposition. If you drive, the day starts and ends on your own terms. If you do not, the geography works against you: the centre is 3.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is a straight line rather than a route you would actually take. Suits: drivers, people with business in Westlands, anyone staying several nights who wants a kitchen and a parked car. Does not suit: walkers who want the Central Business District on foot, and anyone who wants a lobby, a bar and a restaurant downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
035 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
Before you book, be clear about where these hotels are. They sit well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of those quarters, which is not the same as being in it. You are in the wider city here, and every trip into the Central Business District is a journey in and out.
The market quarter itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. 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. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. It lies 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book Kijani Apartment if you are driving and Westlands is where you need to be, and check the parking arrangement when 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 Kijani Apartment?+
It is on School Lane in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, outside the central grid. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is Biashara Street and City Market, 3.36 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Treat it as a Westlands address, not a centre one.
What does the property actually list?+
Dry cleaning service, free car parking, parking, a smoking area and wheelchair access, and nothing more. There is no restaurant, bar, gym or pool on the list. If a particular facility decides your booking, ask the property directly before you confirm rather than assuming.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
You can, but plan for it honestly. The centre is 3.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line, and a direct line is not a walking route. Most people staying here drive or take a vehicle in.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown through app.impt.io, where you can see what is open for your dates and confirm. Most rooms can be cancelled free. The property itself is the right place to ask about wheelchair access, parking arrangements and specific room details.
