A one-bedroom apartment with a full kitchen on Stima Lane in Westlands, a 4 star listing with free parking and a balcony. The kitchen, not the room count, is what decides whether it suits you.
01What it is
Sherry Homes 1 Bdrm Pentpad Westlands Nairobi lists what a one-bedroom apartment needs to work for a stay of more than a night: a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and housekeeping and laundry service behind them. There is free wifi, a desk, a safe, a TV and a fan, with towels, sheets and slippers provided. The bathroom has a shower and WC. The building adds a lift, free car parking, non smoking rooms, family rooms and high chairs, a bar, express check in and a shuttle service. The list is thin in two places: it is built around self-catering rather than service, and apart from the bar and the lift there is nothing communal beyond your own balcony.
What that adds up to at Sherry Homes 1 Bdrm Pentpad Westlands Nairobi is a base for someone who wants to cook, park a car and come and go without a front desk in the way, and who is happy to be in Westlands rather than in the centre. It is 3.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.86 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Book it if you want an apartment with a kitchen and a parking space north of the centre. Do not book it if you plan to walk into the CBD for meetings, or if you want a hotel with staff on hand through the day.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 3 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 directly if the kitchen and the free parking are the two things you need, because they are what the listing is built around rather than its service. 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 Sherry Homes 1 Bdrm Pentpad Westlands Nairobi?+
It is on Stima Lane in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, north of the Central Business District. The centre feels like a daytime quarter, with the halls shutting in the late afternoon and the streets emptying with them. Stima Lane itself is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide.
What does the apartment actually include?+
A kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, and a bathroom with a shower and WC. There is free wifi, a desk, a safe, a TV, a fan, and towels, sheets and slippers. The building has a lift, free car parking, non smoking rooms, family rooms and high chairs, a bar, express check in and a shuttle service.
How do I get into the centre from here?+
The address is 3.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a walk rather than a short stroll, so if your day is built around the CBD, plan on getting there by vehicle. The listing includes free car parking and a shuttle service.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and dates are handled through app.impt.io when you book. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you can hold a date while you sort out the rest of your trip. The property has non smoking rooms and family rooms, and it is worth confirming which of those you need before you book.
