A serviced one bedroom apartment block on Sports Road in Westlands, with air conditioning, a pool, a gym and secure parking. The kitchen and the washing machine are what decide it: this suits a longer self catering stay, not a night in the centre.
01What it is
This is a four star apartment property on Sports Road in Westlands, so you get a whole flat rather than a room: a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, and a bathroom with bath, shower, bidet and toiletries. Air conditioning and a fan cover the heat, and there is a balcony, terrace, patio and picnic area. The leisure list is long, with an outdoor pool, pool bar, gym, spa, games room and darts. Wifi, parking and garage parking are listed, and the building has lifts, 24 hour security and smoke detectors. Breakfast, lunch and a restaurant are named, though the food side is stated thinly and you should treat it as a question to ask rather than a promise.
What it adds up to is a self contained flat in a residential commercial district rather than a hotel in the centre. The Modern 1 Bedroom in Westlands gives you a kitchen, laundry and a place to park, which matters if you are in Nairobi for more than a night or two and want to cook. It sits in Greater Nairobi, not in the quarter itself, so you are relying on the shuttle service or your own car to reach the centre. Suits longer stays, couples, families and anyone working in Westlands. Does not suit a one night stopover or a trip built around walking the CBD.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 35 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
Ask before you book whether the kitchen and laundry are in the unit you are shown, since this is an apartment listing rather than a hotel room. 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 this apartment?+
It is on Sports Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 3.17 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is a separate district from the centre, so plan on the shuttle or a car rather than walking in.
What does the apartment actually include?+
A kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, air conditioning and a balcony. The building lists a pool, gym, spa, games room, restaurant, free wifi and free parking. Bring questions about breakfast and housekeeping frequency, since the listing is thinner on those.
How far is it from the CBD?+
It is 3.76 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a straight line measure, not a route, so treat it as a sense of scale. A car or the shuttle makes better sense here.
How do I check availability and book?+
Use the booking link on this page at app.impt.io to see what is open for your dates. The listing is for a one bedroom apartment, so confirm the unit type and whether the kitchen and laundry are included before you confirm, since those are the things that decide whether it works for you.
