A three star apartment block on Muthangari Drive in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. The kitchen, the washing machine and the free parking are what decide it: this suits a self-catering stay with a car, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the door into the centre.
01What it is
Lux Suites Nova Apartments Westlands is an apartment property rather than a hotel, and the list reads that way: a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, an iron and board, towels, slippers, a shower and a WC. The property also lists free wifi, a TV, a safe, a balcony, a garden, an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, lifts and wheelchair access, plus free car parking and a shuttle service. Family rooms and a cot appear, pets are allowed, and there is 24 hour security with smoke detectors and other security features. Where the list is thin is in the ordinary hotel furniture: no restaurant, no bar and no room service are named, so the kitchen is doing the work.
For someone staying at Lux Suites Nova Apartments Westlands, that adds up to an apartment you run yourself, in a residential part of Westlands rather than in the centre. You cook, you wash, you park the car, and the pool and gym fill the hours the kitchen does not. The property sits in Greater Nairobi, 5.34 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 67 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 4.73 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the centre is a trip, not a stroll. It suits a family or a longer stay with a vehicle and a reason to be in Westlands. It does not suit a short stay built around the Central Business District, and it does not suit anyone without a car.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 2 more on the supplier's own record. 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 this one when you want the apartment rather than the room, and read the kitchen and parking list 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 is Lux Suites Nova Apartments Westlands?+
It is on Muthangari Drive in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the Central Business District. The site measures it at 5.34 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 67 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a vehicle if the centre is your business.
What does the property actually list?+
Apartments with a kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, iron and board, towels and slippers. Also free wifi, a TV, a safe, a balcony, a garden, an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, lifts, free car parking, a shuttle service and 24 hour security. No restaurant or bar is named.
Can I stay here without a car?+
It is possible but awkward. The property is 4.73 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the area is residential. A shuttle service is listed, but the free car parking is the more useful facility if you have your own vehicle.
How do I check availability at Lux Suites Nova Apartments Westlands?+
Check the listing on this site and book through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the property lists family rooms and a cot, so say what you need when you book. Requests go to the property, and confirmation comes back through the booking.
