A 4 star apartment-style address on Westlands Road, with kitchens and laundry in the room rather than a full hotel underneath it. It suits a household or a longer stay that wants to cook and wash. It does not suit anyone who needs the centre, or a bar, on the doorstep after dark.
01What it is
69 Westlands Road is listed as a 4 star property, and the list reads like a serviced apartment rather than a hotel. Kitchen, kitchenette and washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, cots and babysitting, family rooms and wheelchair access. Air conditioning, TV, bathroom and WC, balcony, safe, free Wifi. Free car parking and 24H security. Bars, a barber and beauty salon, a garden and a market are also on the list, as are breakfast, dinner, room service, banquet space and a shuttle. It is thin on the things a hotel guest assumes: no listed gym, no pool, no concierge, and the food is named as meals rather than a restaurant.
For someone staying a week or more, 69 Westlands Road takes the daily chores off the table. You can wash, cook and park, and the family and accessibility facilities mean a child or a wheelchair does not rule it out. The trade is location and atmosphere. It sits 1.38 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, and that quarter is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Suits long stays, families and anyone with a car. Does not suit a short city break built around evenings out, or a visitor who wants the CBD on foot.
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 in Biashara Street and City Market
These hotels sit in Biashara Street and City Market, the market quarter, narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. This is 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. The quarter sits 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan on being elsewhere for the evening and for a ride back. It suits anyone who wants cloth, flowers, market produce and old city fabric on the doorstep, and it does not suit anyone who wants company after dark or a hotel bar to fall into.
Read the whole of Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book 69 Westlands Road if you want a kitchen and a washing machine for the length of your stay, not a lobby to sit in. 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 69 Westlands Road?+
The address is 69 Westlands Road, 2nd floor, house number D6, in Nairobi. It is 1.92 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line. The surrounding quarter is Biashara Street and City Market, which is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide.
What facilities does the property actually list?+
Kitchen and kitchenette, washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, air conditioning, TV, balcony, safe, free Wifi and free car parking, with 24H security, smoke detectors and first aid. It also lists cots, babysitting, family rooms, wheelchair access, a garden, a barber and beauty salon, a market, breakfast, dinner, room service, a shuttle and banquet space.
Can I walk to the centre from Biashara Street and City Market?+
You can, but treat it as a daytime errand rather than an evening out. That quarter is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The property sits 1.38 km from the centre of Biashara Street and City Market, so plan your return before the shops close.
How do I check availability for 69 Westlands Road?+
Availability and room types are shown when you book through app.impt.io. Most rooms here can be cancelled free. Check the dates you need against the listed room types, since the kitchen and family set-ups are not in every unit, and confirm the facilities you rely on before you commit.
