A four star hotel on Westlands Road with a full business floor and no shortage of eating and exercise facilities. Its distance from the central quarter decides the stay, since you are booking a hotel that works best when your day is already planned elsewhere.
01What it is
The Nanchang Hotel lists the facilities of a working four star hotel, and the business side is the strongest part of it. There is a business centre, conference room, meeting room, projector, secretarial services, copying, a cloakroom and a banquet floor, plus currency exchange, car rental and a shuttle service. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, TV, telephone, minibar, mini fridge, bathrobe and slippers. Food runs across full board, half board, all inclusive, buffet, breakfast, lunch and dinner, with special diets handled. There is a gymnasium, aerobics, a spa, massage, a barber and beauty salon, bars, a lounge and a terrace. Parking, 24H. Security, lifts, laundry and non smoking rooms are all present. The list is thinner on the quiet things: no business suite is named, no airport desk, and nothing describes the rooms beyond their fittings.
For someone staying at the Nanchang Hotel, that adds up to a place built around work and around eating on site. The address is Westlands Road 21, in Greater Nairobi, and the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, Biashara Street and City Market, is 2.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The whole point of this part of the city is that it is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Book the Nanchang Hotel if your days are set and your evenings are close to the hotel. Do not book it if you want the centre on foot after dark, or if you plan to spend your stay in the middle of things.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 24 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
Book the Nanchang Hotel as a base for a fixed programme rather than as a place to wander from, and confirm which board basis you actually want 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 is the Nanchang Hotel?+
It is at Westlands Road 21 in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than inside the central quarter. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 2.7 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 34 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat the centre as a separate trip rather than a walk out of the lobby.
What facilities does the Nanchang Hotel have?+
It lists a business centre, conference and meeting rooms, a projector, secretarial services, a banquet floor, restaurant and bars, a lounge, a terrace, a gymnasium, aerobics, a spa, massage, a salon, parking, security, lifts and laundry. Rooms have air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar and a TV.
What does getting into the centre involve?+
The Nanchang Hotel sits in Greater Nairobi, so the central quarter is not on your doorstep. Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, is 2.16 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on the shuttle, a car or a taxi each way.
What does the guest score mean?+
The Nanchang Hotel holds 3.9 out of 5 from 162 reviews. That is a solid but not exceptional figure: guests who book it for business, conferences or a fixed itinerary tend to be satisfied, while those expecting to be in the middle of the centre may find the location the sticking point.
