A five star hotel on Muthithi Road in Westlands, with an indoor pool, gym, spa and multiple restaurants. The published guest score of 4.7 out of 5 from 309 reviews suggests most people leave satisfied. The stated distance from the central quarter is the part that decides your trip.
01What it is
Hyatt Regency Nairobi Westlands holds a five star rating and lists the full spread you expect at that level: a fitness centre and gymnasium, indoor pool, sauna, steam room and spa, several restaurants and bars, room service, a business centre, banquet and meeting space, free wifi, free car parking, a garage and a 24 hour front desk with 24 hour security. Rooms list air conditioning, bath and shower, bathrobe, hairdryer, safe, desk, TV, telephone, refrigerator, microwave, iron and board and coffee. Family rooms are available and pets are allowed.
The list is conventionally complete, and the thin part is on the doorstep rather than inside. Aerobics, bike rental, a golf course and a night club sit oddly beside a business hotel, but the core offer, rooms, food, pool, gym, spa, is what you are buying. Hyatt Regency Nairobi Westlands suits a traveller who wants a full facility hotel and treats the centre as a place to reach rather than a place to live in. Anyone who wants to step out of a lobby into the CBD should look elsewhere.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 31 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
Booking Hyatt Regency Nairobi Westlands is simplest done directly and confirmed by email, so the family rooms and pet policy can be settled before you arrive. 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 Regency Nairobi Westlands?+
The hotel is at 38 Muthithi Road in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi. It sits 2.39 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 30 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 1.87 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
An indoor pool, fitness centre, gymnasium, sauna, steam room, spa, restaurant and bars, room service, business centre, banquet space, free wifi, free car parking, garage, 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, lifts, laundry, concierge, family rooms and wheelchair access. Rooms include air conditioning, bath and shower, safe, desk and fridge.
How do you get into the centre from the hotel?+
The centre is not on the doorstep. Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest quarter, is 1.87 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. You can walk in a direct line or take a car, and the hotel has a car rental service.
What does the guest score mean for this hotel?+
It holds 4.7 out of 5 from 309 reviews, a high score across a decent sample. That tells you most past guests were satisfied with the rooms and service, and nothing about whether the location suits you. Read it with the distance to the centre in mind.
