A three star apartment block on Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre itself. Free parking decides it: with a car this works, without one you are relying on rides into a daytime quarter that empties by evening.
01What it is
Lux Suites Lantana Apartments westlands is a three star apartment property on Lantana Road, and its listed facilities are short and practical: free wifi, free car parking, an outdoor pool and wheelchair access. Of those, parking is the one a visitor will care about most, because it changes how the whole stay is run. The pool is the second, giving you somewhere to sit without leaving the building. The list is thin beyond that. There is no restaurant, no gym, no airport transfer and no workspace named, so treat the room and the parking as the substance and everything else as absent until confirmed.
What that adds up to is a self contained stay in Greater Nairobi, which is a different proposition from sleeping in the centre. Lux Suites Lantana Apartments westlands suits someone with their own car, or someone who is content to arrange rides, and who wants a quieter base with a pool and a parking space. It does not suit anyone hoping to step out of the door into the life of the city. The quarter is a daytime one: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so evenings belong indoors or somewhere reached by vehicle.
02The supplier's photographs
034 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 Lux Suites Lantana Apartments westlands through this site and you are holding a room in Greater Nairobi with parking included, which is the reason most people choose it. 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 Lux Suites Lantana Apartments westlands?+
It sits on Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.3 km from Biashara Street and City Market, so plan on reaching the centre by vehicle rather than on foot.
What does the property actually list?+
Free wifi, free car parking, an outdoor pool and wheelchair access, under a three star rating. That is the whole list. There is no restaurant, bar or gym named, and no airport transfer, so anything beyond those four items is worth confirming directly before you commit.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps considerably. Free parking is listed, and the surrounding quarter is a daytime one where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. With a car you come and go freely; without one you are arranging rides to and from the centre.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown through app.impt.io, where you can see what is open for your dates. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you settle your plans. No rates are shown on this page.
