A four star apartment style address in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, with pools, gym, sauna and kitchens in the room. The question it settles is simple: you want space and facilities and you are happy to be outside the central quarter.
01What it is
Skynest Residences by CityBlue Nairobi Westlands is listed as a four star property. The facilities are largely the apartment and wellness kind: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator and washing machine alongside air conditioning, balcony, desk, TV and safe, with bathrobe, slippers, hairdryer and toiletries in the bathroom. There is a fitness center and gymnasium, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, sauna, steam room and spa, plus restaurant and bar, garden and terrace, and darts. Practical items include free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, lifts, family rooms and wheelchair access. Breakfast is listed. The list is thin on nothing you would expect at this level, though the bar and cafe entries are given only as bars and snack cafe, with no detail on what either serves.
What that adds up to for someone staying here is a self contained flat with hotel services around it. Skynest Residences by CityBlue Nairobi Westlands is pitched at people who want to cook and do laundry, use a pool and gym without leaving the building, and keep a car parked for nothing extra. It suits longer stays, families, and anyone working in Westlands or across Greater Nairobi who prefers a kitchen and a balcony to a corridor room. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out into the central business district: this address sits outside the quarter, and a car or shuttle is the sensible way in. If your day is built around the centre, look there instead.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 26 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 Skynest Residences by CityBlue Nairobi Westlands directly if you want the apartment layout and the pool and gym on site rather than a room in the centre. 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 Skynest Residences by CityBlue Nairobi Westlands?+
It is on Mkungu Close in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi. It stands 3.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.72 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property list?+
A four star list built around apartments and leisure: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, microwave, refrigerator, washing machine, air conditioning, balcony, free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk and security, outdoor pool with pool bar, gymnasium, sauna, steam room, spa, restaurant, bar, garden, terrace, family rooms and wheelchair access.
Can you stay here without a car?+
You can, but you will be relying on the listed shuttle service for longer trips. The address is outside the central quarter, so the centre is not on your doorstep. If your days are built around the business district, a hotel closer in will save you the repeated journey.
What does the guest score mean?+
It carries 4.6 out of 5 from 517 reviews. That is a strong score from a large number of stays and points to a property that generally delivers what it lists. Read it as a signal of consistency rather than a description of any particular room type.
