A 4 star business hotel on Muthithi Street in Westlands, north of the centre. It has the full spread you expect for work: desk, wifi, gym, pool, spa, restaurant, bar, banquet and business centre. The deciding question is whether your day happens on this side of town.
01What it is
Golden Tulip Westlands Nairobi is a 4 star property at 65 Muthithi Street, in Westlands rather than the old centre. Its listed facilities cover the working day and the one after it: a business centre, copy service, banquet and meeting space, free wifi throughout, and a 24 hour front desk with express check in. Rooms are air conditioned, carpeted and non smoking, with desk, safe, minibar, refrigerator, coffee, bath or shower, bathrobe, slippers and toiletries. There is a restaurant, bars, room service, breakfast and buffet, and a lounge with a fireplace. For the body: gymnasium, fitness center, outdoor pool, spa and steam room. Free car parking, garage, car rental, shuttle, laundry, dry cleaning, currency exchange and concierge round it out, plus wheelchair access and 24 hour security. The list is long on services and thin on plain information: it tells you what exists, not how any of it is run.
What that adds up to for you is a hotel organised around work and a booked table. Golden Tulip Westlands Nairobi gives you the desk, the wifi, the rooms for a meeting and the gym and pool at the end of the day, and Westlands puts restaurants and offices within the same few streets. It suits business travellers with business on this side, and anyone who wants a 4 star service list in a quieter, more residential part of the city. It suits you less if your days belong in the centre. The old quarter is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Staying here means committing to Westlands, not to the CBD.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 32 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
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 this one if your days are in Westlands rather than the old centre, and check the cancellation terms 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 Golden Tulip Westlands Nairobi?+
It is at 65 Muthithi Street in Westlands, Greater Nairobi, not in the old centre. It is 2.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 26 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area around it is narrow and shaded.
What does the hotel list for business travellers?+
A business centre, copy service, banquet space, free wifi, a 24 hour front desk with express check in, and air conditioned non smoking rooms with a desk, safe, minibar and coffee. There is also a restaurant, bars, room service, a gym, a pool and a spa.
How do I get from Greater Nairobi into the centre?+
Westlands sits north of the old quarter. It is 1.57 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts the centre within reach, but not on your doorstep, and the quarter goes quiet in the late afternoon.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.4 out of 5 from 3566 reviews. That is a strong, well established score rather than a perfect one, and it comes from a large number of stays, so treat it as a reliable signal that the hotel meets expectations most of the time.
