A four star hotel on General Mathenge Road in Westlands, built for people with a car and a reason to be in this part of the city. Free parking, kitchens, a fitness centre and a shuttle are the draw. It is not a base for walking into the centre.
01What it is
Glam Hotel Nairobi Near Westgate Mall Westlands is a four star property on General Mathenge Road, off the Peponi Road junction. Its listed facilities are broad rather than deep: free wifi, air conditioning, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, lifts, housekeeping, laundry, luggage storage and free car parking. Rooms come with desks, safes, TVs, telephones, hairdryers, iron and board, toiletries, towels, minibars, refrigerators and microwaves, and some have balconies. There are family rooms and non smoking rooms. Food and drink run to a restaurant, bars, banquet space, room service, breakfast in room, lunch, coffee, special diets, a terrace, a smoking area and water. The kitchen and kitchenette listings are the strongest practical feature for longer stays. The list is thinner on things a four star label might suggest: no pool, no spa, no business centre beyond copy facilities, and nothing about gym equipment beyond the fitness centre being named.
Glam Hotel Nairobi Near Westgate Mall Westlands is a working hotel for Greater Nairobi rather than a base for the centre. If you are driving, the combination of free parking, a kitchenette, laundry and a shuttle removes most of the friction of a stay here. Families get family rooms and the kitchen. Anyone in town for a meeting in Westlands or needing a quiet, secure building at night is well served. It suits people who accept a car as part of the trip. It does not suit anyone planning to walk into the city centre, and it does not suit travellers who want the centre's streets on their doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 12 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 Glam Hotel Nairobi Near Westgate Mall Westlands if you want Westlands with a car and a kitchen, not a walkable centre. 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 Glam Hotel Nairobi Near Westgate Mall Westlands?+
It is on General Mathenge Road, off the Peponi Road junction, in Westlands. That is Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.47 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel actually list?+
Free wifi, air conditioning, free car parking, a fitness centre, a restaurant, bars, banquet space, room service, a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security. Rooms include kitchens or kitchenettes, refrigerators, microwaves, minibars, safes, desks and some balconies. Family rooms, non smoking rooms, laundry and luggage storage are also listed.
Can I walk from the hotel into the centre of Nairobi?+
It is not a walking base. The hotel is 3.96 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line. The centre is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan on a shuttle or a car.
What does the guest score of 3.6 out of 5 mean?+
It is a middling score from 67 reviews, which is a small sample. Read it as a hotel that satisfies many of its guests without delighting most of them. The listed facilities are the more reliable guide to whether it fits your trip.
