A four star apartment style hotel on Mimosa Road in Westlands, with an indoor pool, a spa and kitchenettes, so you can stay a week without eating out every night. What decides it is whether you want the centre's daytime quarter on foot or the peace of a walled compound and a ride in.
01What it is
Dusit Princess Hotel Residences Nairobi runs to the long list you would expect at four stars: restaurant and bar, breakfast and lunch and dinner, room service, a fitness centre, an indoor pool, a spa, a business centre, a banquet room and a night club. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a bath and a shower, a TV, coffee, a balcony, an iron and board, and a kitchenette in the residence style. There are family rooms, cots, a babysitting service, a laundry, dry cleaning and a washing machine, which tells you longer stays are the point. The thin part of the list is location: Westlands is a ride from the centre, not a walk, and the entry is off Mimosa Road rather than on a street you would wander.
For someone staying here, Dusit Princess Hotel Residences Nairobi is a compound you leave by car. You get parking, a shuttle service, car rental, a 24 hour desk, a concierge and security, so the day is arranged for you rather than improvised. The address puts you 4.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 56 minutes on foot in a direct line. That suits business travellers with meetings, families who want the pool and the kitchenette, and anyone staying several nights who would rather not move hotels. It suits you less if you want to step out of a lobby into Nairobi's centre: the quarter you are here for is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, and this is not that quarter.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 34 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 Dusit Princess Hotel Residences Nairobi for the nights you actually need, since the residence rooms reward longer stays. 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 Dusit Princess Hotel Residences Nairobi?+
It is on Mimosa Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, 3.81 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Practical upshot: you are outside the centre, on a street that is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide.
What does the property actually list?+
A 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, free car parking, a fitness centre, an indoor pool, a spa, a restaurant, bars, a night club, a business centre, banquet space, family rooms, a babysitting service, laundry and dry cleaning, kitchenettes, balconies, air conditioning and a shuttle service. Pets are allowed and there are non smoking rooms and wheelchair access.
How do I get into the centre from here?+
The address is 4.42 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 56 minutes on foot in a direct line. The hotel lists a shuttle service and car rental, so you can arrange the trip rather than rely on the street. The quarter is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.7 out of 5 from 513 reviews, which puts it at the top of the four star band rather than the middle. Read that as consistent satisfaction across a large number of stays, and treat the specific complaints you find in any review set as the detail behind the average.
