A serviced one-bedroom apartment in Westlands, north of the centre and not in it, behind a gate with parking and a full kitchen. If you want the CBD on foot, this is the wrong side of town. If you want a flat to work from and drive in, it works.
01What it is
The Cozy Corner 1BR in Westlands near Sarit Centre is a four star apartment in Cijana Gardens Westlands, and the list is a flat rather than a hotel: one bedroom, a kitchen and a kitchenette, an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a washing machine. There is a bath, a shower and a separate WC, toiletries and slippers, a balcony, a desk, an iron and board, a safe and a TV. Wifi and internet access are free, as is car parking, with 24 hour security, express check in, cleaning and laundry service. Non smoking rooms. What is thin is services: there is no restaurant, no bar and no gym on the list, so you eat in or you drive out.
For someone staying at The Cozy Corner 1BR in Westlands near Sarit Centre, that adds up to a self contained base: you cook, you wash clothes, you park, you work at the desk and you sleep. The trade is location. This is Greater Nairobi, not the quarter, so the day is planned around a vehicle rather than a stroll, and you are not walking to meetings. It suits a longer stay, a couple or a single traveller with a car who wants a flat and quiet. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the door into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0328 facilities the supplier lists
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
Book this one if you want an apartment rather than a room, and check the calendar before you commit to dates. 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?+
Cijana Gardens Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, north of the centre. It is 3.4 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is a driving or taxi trip, not a walk you would want to make with a bag.
What is in the apartment?+
One bedroom with a bath, a shower and a separate WC, a kitchen and kitchenette with oven, microwave and refrigerator, a washing machine, a balcony, a desk, an iron and board, a safe, a TV, free wifi and free car parking. No restaurant or bar is listed.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
It is not a walking location. The apartment sits 3.95 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that line does not account for traffic or the route. Plan on a car or taxi for anything in the centre.
How do I check availability?+
Use app.impt.io and put in your dates. The calendar there shows what is open and what can be cancelled free, and the booking is confirmed on the spot. If your dates are not shown, the apartment is taken.
