A four star studio apartment block on Lantana Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre and set up for cooking, parking and a longer stay. The one thing that decides it is the car: this is not a place you walk out of into the city.
01What it is
Shelly's suites Westlands studio Apt in Escada is a four star apartment property on Lantana Road, and the list reads like a flat rather than a hotel room. There is a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, an iron and board, a safe, a desk, a fan and a TV, with towels, a hairdryer, a shower, a WC and a bidet. The building adds an indoor pool, a fitness centre, a restaurant and bars, a lift, free wifi, free car parking and 24 hour security. Where the list is thin: nothing here is a room service promise, no staffed front desk detail is given beyond express check in, and the pool and bars are building facilities rather than a hotel operation you can hold to a standard. The seven photos on file are the whole of the visual record, so ask before you commit to a specific unit.
For someone staying at Shelly's suites Westlands studio Apt in Escada, that adds up to a self-contained base: you cook, you wash clothes, you park, you swim indoors, and you are not dependent on the centre for anything. It sits in Greater Nairobi, 2.65 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and it is described as narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide, with the halls shutting in the late afternoon and the streets emptying with them. Suits people with a car who want an apartment and quiet, and anyone staying more than a night or two. Does not suit anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the CBD.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 4 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 Shelly's suites Westlands studio Apt in Escada as an apartment rather than a room, and confirm what the unit itself holds before you pay, since the listing covers the building as much as the flat. 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 Shelly's suites Westlands studio Apt in Escada?+
It is on Lantana Road in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. The site puts it 2.65 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so treat it as a base outside the centre rather than a place inside it.
Does the apartment have a kitchen?+
The listing gives an oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and coffee, plus a washing machine, iron and board, a safe, a desk, a fan and a TV. Towels, a hairdryer, a shower, a WC and a bidet are also listed, so the unit is set up for cooking and for a stay of more than one night.
What is on site at the building?+
An indoor pool, a fitness centre, a restaurant and bars, a lift, free wifi, free car parking and 24 hour security. Check in is express. The list covers the building as much as a single flat, so ask which of these your particular unit actually opens onto.
How do I check availability for specific dates?+
Availability, unit type and dates are confirmed at the point of booking through app.impt.io. Because the listing describes both the apartment and the wider building, it is worth confirming which unit you are taking and what it includes before you complete the booking.
