A Westlands hotel with parking, a pool and a full front desk, 3.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market. It suits you if you have your own transport or a driver, and it does not suit you if you plan to walk into the centre.
01What it is
Hyatt House Nairobi Westlands is a 3 star property on Lower Kabete Road in Westlands, listed with 24 hour front desk, concierge, express check in, lifts and wheelchair accessibility, so the practical parts of a stay are covered. Rooms list a shower, WC and double glazed windows. The facilities take in a restaurant, cafe, bars, breakfast and buffet, plus an outdoor pool, a second swimming pool, a fitness centre, a terrace and a playground. Banquet and meeting room space, babysitting, a shuttle service, free wifi, free car parking and a smoking area round it out. The list is thin on specifics: no room count, no detail on what the shuttle covers, and no information on what the pool area is like when the hotel is full.
What that adds up to for you is a hotel built around the car and the working day rather than the walking visitor. Hyatt House Nairobi Westlands sits in Greater Nairobi, and the centre it serves is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market. That is not a stroll you want at either end of the day. Stay at Hyatt House Nairobi Westlands if you are driving, travelling with children, or on a longer business stay that needs meeting space and parking. Do not book it if your trip is built on walking out to the markets and back.
02The supplier's photographs
0325 facilities the supplier lists
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 Hyatt House Nairobi Westlands for the parking, the pool and the 24 hour desk, and settle the shuttle question 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 exactly is Hyatt House Nairobi Westlands?+
It is on Lower Kabete Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. The site puts it 3.71 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the hotel list for families?+
It lists a playground, babysitting service, an outdoor pool plus a second swimming pool, a terrace and a cafe. Double glazed windows and a 24 hour front desk are also on the list. Nothing in the facts says how the playground or the pools are supervised, so ask the hotel directly.
Can I walk into the centre from the hotel?+
The centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market. Do that on foot at either end of the day and you are walking empty streets.
How do I check availability at this property?+
Use the booking link on this page and enter your dates. The hotel lists express check in and a 24 hour front desk, so an arrival outside normal desk patterns is worth raising with the property before you travel. Nothing on this site quotes rates or opening hours.
