A Westlands studio with a kitchen, a desk and parking, in a part of the city that runs by day and empties in the late afternoon. It suits a longer stay with your own transport and someone steady about getting into the centre; it does not suit a first visit built around walking to the sights.
01What it is
Westlands superior studio by bliss haven is a four star apartment stay on Laikipia Road, in west Nairobi rather than the centre itself. The rooms are set up for living rather than sleeping: a kitchen and kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, coffee and water, so you can feed yourself without eating out. There is a desk, free wifi and internet access for working, a fan, and a lift, with free car parking on site. The bathroom side is complete: bath, shower, WC, bidet, towels, toiletries and slippers. The list is thin on the things you may assume at four stars: no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no pool.
For someone staying more than a night or two, that combination works. Westlands superior studio by bliss haven gives you a base where you cook, park the car and get through a working day, and the terrace gives you somewhere to sit outside without leaving the building. What it does not give you is the centre on the doorstep. The property sits in Greater Nairobi, 2.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It suits a longer stay with a car and a tolerance for crossing town; it does not suit a first visit built around the centre or anyone on foot.
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
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 directly if you want the room held and the cancellation terms settled before you commit. 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 Westlands superior studio by bliss haven?+
It is on Laikipia Road, in Westlands, west Nairobi, inside Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The address is not in the centre, and Laikipia Road sits among the wider streets of Westlands. Plan on crossing town rather than stepping out of the door into the centre.
What does the studio have in the room?+
A kitchen and kitchenette, a refrigerator, a microwave, coffee and water, a desk, free wifi, a fan, a TV, towels, toiletries, a bath, a shower, a bidet, slippers, an iron and board, a terrace and free parking. No restaurant or bar is listed.
How far is it from the centre?+
The property is 3.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 41 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 2.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Neither is a doorstep walk.
How do I check availability?+
Go to app.impt.io and look up the dates you want. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and availability is shown for the nights you select. Nothing is held until the booking is confirmed, so check the calendar there rather than asking whether a room is free.
