A three star apartment and hotel block on Rhapta Road in Westlands, 4.21 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The apartments with kitchens and the pool decide it: book here to cook and swim, not to walk into the centre.
01What it is
The King Post is a three star address on Rhapta Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central quarter itself. The room list is the strength: apartments, family rooms, a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a bath, shower, desk, fan, TV and DVD. Outside the rooms there is a restaurant, bar and lounge, room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, an outdoor pool and swimming pool, fitness centre, spa, jacuzzi, steam room, massage, yoga, garden and terrace. Practical items are covered too: free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage, safe, cot, iron and board, non smoking rooms and a smoking area. Where the list thins out is the centre: no airport transfer, no shuttle, no business centre, nothing that closes the gap to town.
For a guest, The King Post works as a base in Westlands rather than as a hotel in the centre, and the distance is the fact that decides it. With a kitchen and a pool on site, a stay can be spent almost entirely inside the property, which suits families, longer stays and anyone who wants to cook. The after-dark picture of the wider centre is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so guests here depend on Westlands for evenings and on their own transport to reach the centre. It suits self-caterers and people with a car. It does not suit anyone who wants the city quarter on foot.
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
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 The King Post if Westlands and a kitchen matter more than a central address, and book the apartment rather than a standard room to get the space. 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 The King Post in Nairobi?+
It is on Rhapta Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. The listed address is Rhapta Raod Westlands, and it sits 4.83 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 61 minutes on foot in a direct line. That places it outside the centre, in a mainly daytime commercial and residential area.
What facilities does The King Post list?+
An outdoor pool, fitness centre, spa, jacuzzi, steam room, massage and yoga, plus a restaurant, bar and lounge, room service and breakfast. Rooms come as apartments and family rooms with a kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster. Free wifi, free car parking, laundry, housekeeping and 24 hour security are listed.
How do I get into the centre from The King Post?+
It is 4.21 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so plan on a vehicle rather than a walk. Westlands itself handles most everyday needs, and the centre is the daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
What is the guest score for The King Post?+
The property carries a guest score of 4.4 out of 5 from 127 reviews, with 12 photos on file. Read that as a solid but not exceptional record across a reasonably large number of stays, and weigh it against the location if the centre is your main reason for being in Nairobi.
