A serviced apartment building on Church Road in Westlands, four and a half kilometres west of the central business district. The list is built around long stays, with kitchens, laundry, parking and a garden. The centre that this site covers is a separate trip, and that is the thing to weigh before you book.
01What it is
Lux Suites Westlands Penthouse is a three star property on Church Road, and the facilities it lists read like an apartment rather than a hotel room. Kitchens and kitchenettes, a washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping and a laundry service cover the practical end, which matters if you are staying more than a night or two. There are family rooms, a lift, a terrace and a garden. Air conditioning, free wifi, free car parking and a garage are all listed. Bathrooms come with a bath or shower, a bidet, toiletries and slippers. A lounge, a desk, a safe, a TV and a sofa bed are listed as well. Leisure facilities include tennis courts, a sauna, a golf course and bars. Twenty four hour security and first aid are stated. The thin part of the list is anything specific to Westlands itself: no restaurant, no airport transfer, no shuttle, and nothing that ties the property to a particular street beyond the address.
Lux Suites Westlands Penthouse works best for a longer stay, a family, or anyone who wants to cook and park and spread out rather than sit in a room. Four and a half kilometres of west Nairobi separate the building from the streets this site covers. The nearest of the ten quarters is 3.96 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you will not be walking into the centre of town on a whim, and Greater Nairobi is not the quarter this site describes. The property has a garden, a terrace, a lounge and a sauna, which gives you somewhere to be in the evening, which is just as well. The centre itself is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. If your business is in Westlands, or your stay is long and self-catering, the building fits. If your trip is built around the central business district, it does not.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 2 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
Lux Suites Westlands Penthouse is the kind of place you book early if you need a kitchen and parking on the same booking, because the apartment layouts and the free car parking are the parts people ask for first. 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 Lux Suites Westlands Penthouse?+
It is on Church Road in Westlands, west Nairobi, outside the central business district this site covers. Greater Nairobi is the district. The city centre is 4.57 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 58 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat the two as separate parts of a trip.
What does the property list for a longer stay?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes, a washing machine, iron and board, housekeeping, a laundry service, a safe and a desk. There are family rooms, air conditioning, free wifi, free car parking, a garage, a lift, a garden, a terrace, a lounge and a sauna. Bathrooms have a bath or shower, a bidet, toiletries and slippers.
How do you get from the property into the centre?+
Greater Nairobi covers both, but they are not the same place. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.96 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Arrange transport rather than planning to walk, and note that the centre is a daytime quarter.
How do you check availability?+
Availability is shown on app.impt.io, where you can see what is open for your dates and book directly. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and the confirmation covers the apartment facilities you selected. Have your dates and the number of people ready before you look.
