A four star apartment block in Westlands with a pool, a gym and full kitchens. The deciding fact is that it sits 2.75 km from Biashara Street and City Market, so you are not in the centre and you are not pretending to be.
01What it is
Luxury Skynest is a four star apartment building on Mkungu Close in Westlands, and the list of facilities is long and weighted towards long stays. Each unit has a kitchen with an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a washing machine, plus a balcony, a safe, a hairdryer, an iron and board, towels and a TV. The building has an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a fitness centre, a sauna, a steam room, a squash court, a games room with darts, a garden, a terrace, a lounge, a restaurant and a bar. There is free wifi, free car parking, a garage, a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, lifts, cleaning, laundry, dry cleaning, a market, a shuttle service, family rooms, cots, high chairs, wheelchair access, non smoking rooms and smoke detectors. The list is thin on the small things: no breakfast is named, no workspace is named, and nothing tells you how the rooms are laid out.
What that adds up to is a self contained stay rather than a hotel one. At Luxury Skynest you can cook, wash clothes and use the pool without leaving the building, and the front desk and security run around the clock. It sits in Greater Nairobi, 3.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is a deliberate trip rather than a step out of the door. The quarter it is nearest to is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. This suits people staying several nights who want space and a kitchen, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk out into the middle of Nairobi.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 19 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
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 Luxury Skynest through this site and confirm the apartment and the dates before you arrive. 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 the Luxury Skynest in Nairobi?+
It is on Mkungu Close in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi. It is 2.75 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you are outside the centre and should plan the trip in rather than walk out of the lobby into it.
What does the property actually have?+
Apartments with kitchens, a washing machine and a balcony, an outdoor pool, a gym, a sauna, a steam room, a squash court, a games room, a restaurant, a bar, free wifi, free parking and a 24 hour front desk. Things like breakfast and room layout are not on the list.
Can I get into the centre from here?+
Yes, but it is a journey rather than a walk. The address is 3.27 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line. The quarter you are nearest to is a daytime one, and its halls shut in the late afternoon.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking page on this site, where you pick your dates and see what is free. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you decide. The listing does not show prices, and nothing is charged until you confirm.
