A serviced one-bedroom apartment in Westlands with a full kitchen and a pool, in a part of the city that suits people who want space and a car, and does not suit anyone planning to walk into the centre each morning.
01What it is
MetaHome 1 Bedroom Beta Westlands is a four star apartment at Marina Bay Square. The kitchen is the centre of the offer: oven, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, and coffee, so you can cook rather than eat out every night. The bathroom has a bath and a shower, a WC, toiletries and slippers. There is a balcony, a TV, a safe and an iron and board. Lifts serve the block, there is free car parking, and an outdoor pool. Non smoking rooms and family rooms are listed. The list is thin on service: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, and no workspace is named, so anyone needing a desk, a printer or a meal downstairs is looking at the wrong kind of stay.
MetaHome 1 Bedroom Beta Westlands sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre, and that is the fact that decides most bookings. With a full kitchen, a washing machine and a pool, it works as a base for a longer stay, for a family, or for anyone who would rather cook and park a car than live out of a single room. The centre is not on the doorstep, so a car or a driver is close to essential, and a traveller who wants to step out of a lobby into the city should look elsewhere. It suits self-sufficient stays, not short city breaks.
02The supplier's photographs
0323 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 this one directly if you want an apartment with a kitchen and a pool rather than a hotel room, and check the dates before you plan the rest of the trip. 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 MetaHome 1 Bedroom Beta Westlands?+
It is at Marina Bay Square in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The apartment is 3.14 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is a residential address, not a central one, so plan your days around that.
Does the apartment have a kitchen?+
Yes. The listed facilities include an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a washing machine, along with coffee. That makes self-catering realistic here rather than a token gesture. There is no restaurant or bar in the property, so cooking and shopping for yourself is the practical arrangement for most stays.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The property is 3.73 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line. That walk is the reason most people staying here keep a car. Free car parking is listed, so driving in is the straightforward option, and lifts serve the block for getting bags up.
What is listed for families and for parking?+
Family rooms and non smoking rooms are both listed, and free car parking is included, which matters given how far the property sits from the centre. The apartment also has a balcony, a bath and a shower, a safe, a TV, an iron and board, and an outdoor pool. No gym or workspace is listed.
