A 3 star apartment style hotel on Mwanzi Road in Westlands, west of the centre, with a pool, kitchens and parking. It suits people who want space, a pool and a base away from the CBD, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the door into the centre.
01What it is
Kingfisher Nest Hotel Suites Westlands Near Sarit Center is a 3 star property on Mwanzi Road, and its list is built around long stays rather than a night in town. Rooms come with air conditioning, a balcony, a desk, a safe, a TV and a kitchen or kitchenette, with a refrigerator, microwave and toaster, so you can feed yourself. There is a fitness centre, an outdoor salt water pool with a pool bar, a restaurant and bar, breakfast, room service, laundry and dry cleaning, a 24 hour front desk and free parking. The thin parts are the ones that would put you in the centre: this is a Westlands address, and the list says nothing about how you get in and out.
What that adds up to for you is a self contained stay on the western side of the city. Kingfisher Nest Hotel Suites Westlands Near Sarit Center has the facilities of a place you settle into, not a place you drop into: cook, swim, work, sleep. It suits families and longer stays, anyone with business in Westlands, and anyone who wants the pool and the parking. It does not suit a visitor whose trip is the Central Business District, because the centre is a distance away and the quarter is a daytime quarter, its halls shut in the late afternoon and its streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 30 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 this one if you have decided you want Westlands and a kitchen rather than a room in town. 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 Kingfisher Nest Hotel Suites Westlands Near Sarit Center?+
It is on Mwanzi Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi, 3.04 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it west of the Central Business District rather than inside it.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
Air conditioning, balconies, kitchens and kitchenettes with a refrigerator, microwave and toaster, an outdoor salt water pool with a pool bar, a fitness centre, a restaurant and bar, breakfast, room service, laundry, free wifi, free parking, a 24 hour front desk and lifts. It is a 3 star property.
How do I get into the centre from here?+
The centre is 3.53 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 45 minutes on foot in a direct line. The hotel lists a shuttle service and car rental, which matters because this is a Westlands base and the quarter you are coming for is a daytime quarter, with the halls shut in the late afternoon.
What does the guest score mean?+
It means 4.4 out of 5 from 592 reviews. That is a solid, well used property rather than an unknown one, and it tells you the pool, the kitchens and the service hold up for the people who stay. It says nothing about how close you are to the centre.
