A one-bedroom apartment with a kitchen and laundry in Westlands, north west of the centre. It suits people staying several nights who will cook and want a pool and gym, and it does not suit anyone whose Nairobi is confined to the Central Business District.
01What it is
La Pace One Bedroom Home Rhapta Road Westlands Nairobi is a four star apartment rather than a hotel room. The listing covers a full kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and washing machine, plus a balcony, a desk, carpeted floors, a bathroom with shower and WC, towels and toiletries. The building has an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a garden, free wifi, free car parking, 24H security, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, and it allows pets and keeps non smoking rooms. The list is thin in two places: there is no restaurant or bar named, and no airport transfer, so meals and the road out of Westlands are yours to arrange.
What that adds up to is a self-contained flat with a serviced building around it. You get a kitchen, a washing machine and a desk, which is the point of La Pace for anyone here for a week rather than a night, and the pool and gym are on site for the hours you are not working. It suits longer stays, families, people travelling with a pet, and anyone who would rather eat in than find a table. It does not suit a short CBD trip: Westlands is its own quarter, and this is 2.96 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
02The supplier's photographs
0335 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 La Pace direct through the site and take a cancellable rate if your dates are still moving. 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 La Pace One Bedroom Home Rhapta Road Westlands Nairobi?+
It is on Rhapta Road at Rhapta Terraces, in Westlands, north west of the centre. The street is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide.
Is this an apartment or a hotel room?+
It is a four star one-bedroom apartment with its own kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator and washing machine, plus a bathroom and balcony. That is what makes it work for stays of a week or more rather than a single night.
How do I get into the Central Business District from here?+
Westlands is a separate quarter, so plan to travel in rather than walk out of your door. The apartment is 3.56 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 45 minutes on foot in a direct line. The city centre is a daytime quarter, so arrange the return leg before the halls shut in the late afternoon.
Does the building have a pool and security?+
Yes. The listing includes an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a garden, free car parking and 24H security, along with housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning. There is no restaurant or bar named, so plan meals around the kitchen or Westlands itself.
