A 3 star Hyatt Place on Lower Kabete Road in Westlands, Greater Nairobi, with a pool, a spa, a casino and a business centre. The location decides it: this is a modern hotel for meetings and a self-contained evening, not a base for the central business district.
01What it is
The listed facilities at Hyatt Place Nairobi Westlands are broad and mostly corporate. There is a 24 hour front desk, a concierge, multilingual staff and luggage storage. Business use is covered by a business centre, a computer room and meeting rooms. Eating and drinking run to restaurants, bars, a lounge, a pool bar and breakfast buffet. There is an outdoor pool, a spa, a casino, shops and a supermarket on site. Practical items include free wifi, free car parking, a shuttle service, dry cleaning and laundry, babysitting, lifts and wheelchair access. The list is thin on detail: it names no room type, no view, no gym and no airport transfer, and a surcharge applies somewhere without saying where.
For a guest, that adds up to a self-contained hotel in Greater Nairobi rather than a central district base. Hyatt Place Nairobi Westlands sits 3.66 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 46 minutes on foot in a direct line. It suits someone with business in Westlands or a schedule built around the hotel. It does not suit a visitor who wants the old centre, where this site's quarter is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0333 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 this one as a working hotel in Westlands, not as a central district address, and check the room you are getting 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 Hyatt Place Nairobi Westlands?+
It is on 10 Lower Kabete Rd in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The listed address is the one to give a driver. The hotel is 3.11 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
The listed facilities include an outdoor pool, a spa, a casino, restaurants, bars, a lounge, a pool bar, shops, a supermarket and a business centre with meeting rooms. Free wifi, free car parking, a shuttle service, laundry, dry cleaning, a 24 hour front desk and wheelchair access are also listed.
What does it mean that the hotel is in Greater Nairobi?+
It means you are outside the central business district. The hotel is 3.66 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 46 minutes on foot in a direct line. For the old centre, plan on a vehicle rather than a walk, and treat the hotel as your base for Westlands.
What does the guest score mean?+
Hyatt Place Nairobi Westlands is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 69 reviews. That is a small sample and a strong average, so it tells you most reviewers were satisfied with what they booked. It is not a star rating. The hotel's star rating is 3 star.
