A four star chain hotel on Karuna Road behind Sarit Center, built around its own restaurant, bar, pool-side spa and parking, with a shuttle for the run into the centre. It suits you if you want a full facility list and Westlands shopping on the doorstep, and it does not if you came to sleep inside the old city core.
01What it is
The Best Western Premier Westlands lists the full four star set. Rooms carry air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a refrigerator, a microwave and a kitchenette, with bathrobes, hairdryers, iron and board, WiFi and televisions. The property runs a restaurant, a bar and a lounge with room service, breakfast and breakfast in room, buffet, lunch, dinner and special diets, plus a fitness center, a spa, a Jacuzzi and a steam room. There is a business center, banquet space, a concierge, currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, free car parking and a garage, a shuttle service, family rooms and wheelchair access, karaoke, bowling and bike rental. The list is thin on nothing much except the smoking area, which is the only line that suggests this is not entirely a non smoking house.
For someone staying at the Best Western Premier Westlands, the effect is a hotel that covers a whole trip without leaving the building, which is either the point or the problem depending on why you are here. Everything a business traveller or a family needs to keep a day moving is listed, and the spa, steam room and fitness center absorb the hours after one. What it does not do is put you in the centre. It is a Westlands property, closer to Sarit Center than to the old city, and the quarter it serves is a trading and shopping district rather than a place for a night out. It suits you if your day is in Westlands, at Sarit Center or in the western offices and you have a car, a driver or patience for the shuttle, and it suits you less if you want to walk out of a lobby and into the centre of town.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 29 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 Best Western Premier Westlands if a chain hotel with a full facility list and parking close to Sarit Center matches how you plan to spend the day. 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 the Best Western Premier Westlands?+
It is on Karuna Road, behind Sarit Center, in Westlands. That puts it 3.12 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It is 3.67 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 46 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel actually have on site?+
A restaurant, bar and lounge with room service; a fitness center, spa, Jacuzzi and steam room; a business center and banquet space; a concierge, currency exchange, laundry, dry cleaning and luggage storage; a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security; free car parking and a garage; a shuttle service; family rooms and wheelchair access.
Do I need a car or a shuttle to get into the centre?+
Yes, and you should plan for one or the other. The hotel lists a shuttle service, so ask the front desk about it when you book. Coming from the centre, the nearest quarter is Biashara Street and City Market, so the Westlands side is where this property sits.
What does the guest score of 4.6 out of 5 from 492 reviews tell me?+
It tells you that a large number of previous guests have rated the Best Western Premier Westlands highly, across 492 reviews. It is a strong signal on service and the room product. Read the comments for the things a score cannot show, such as how well the Westlands location worked for their day.
