A serviced one bedroom apartment on Westlands Road, with a pool, a gym and a desk to work from. It suits a longer stay with your own kitchen and parking. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre, because the centre is not on the doorstep.
01What it is
Nzuri Elite is a four star apartment rather than a hotel room, and the list reads domestic: a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, plus bathrobe, slippers, towels and toiletries. There is a desk for work, a balcony and terrace, an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a games room with table tennis, lifts, free wifi, free car parking and a garage, and 24 hour security. Where the list thins is character: this is a self-contained block, and nothing in it pretends to be a hotel with a lobby life.
For the right visitor that flatness is the point. Nzuri Elite gives you a base that runs on your own schedule, with a kitchen, laundry and parking, and the pool and gym to fill the hours you are not working. It suits a long stay, a family, or anyone in Nairobi on business who wants an apartment rather than a room. It does not suit a short leisure trip built around the centre, because the halls here shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 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 this one if you want an apartment with a desk and a kitchen rather than a hotel room, and check the floor and the pool access 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 exactly is Nzuri Elite?+
It is at Prh6 R57 Westlands Rd, Elite Residence A16, 16th floor, in Westlands, within Greater Nairobi. That puts it 2.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 26 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.55 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
A kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, bathrobe, slippers, towels and toiletries. The building lists an outdoor pool, a fitness centre, a games room with table tennis, free wifi, free car parking, a garage, lifts and 24 hour security. There is a desk, a balcony and a terrace.
Is this a good base for walking into the city centre?+
Only if you accept the walk. The centre is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so most evenings you will want to be back before that. Treat the apartment as a base for working days, not as somewhere to step out of and find the city on foot.
How do I check availability and cancel?+
Availability and terms sit with the booking page rather than with this site. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. Check the dates and the room type there before you commit, and keep the confirmation, since the apartment block handles arrivals itself.
