A five star serviced apartment block on Westlands Road, with kitchens, a pool and a gym. The guest score sits at 4.6 out of 5 from 219 reviews, and the address is the deciding fact: this is Greater Nairobi, not the centre, so you need a car or a shuttle for the centre and for everything after dark.
01What it is
Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Nairobi is a five star apartment property, and the list leans residential: kitchen, kitchenette, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, plus apartments that come with a balcony, a bath, a bathrobe, slippers and toiletries. The leisure side is fuller than most: outdoor pool, kids pool, pool bar, garden, terrace, gymnasium, sauna, steam room and spa, with a restaurant, bars, a market and a banquet room on site. Practical coverage runs to free wifi, free car parking, 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, concierge, currency exchange, laundry, dry cleaning, housekeeping, luggage storage, lifts, air conditioning, non smoking rooms, family rooms, cots, a playground and pets allowed. Breakfast is served, and breakfast in room is listed. Where the list is thin: it names a shuttle service without saying where it goes, and nothing here tells you how anything is priced or timed, so treat the facilities as the whole of what is confirmed.
For a stay of any length, Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Nairobi makes the case for itself on the apartment rather than the hotel. You cook in, you wash clothes in, you spread out, and the pool, gym and spa fill the hours a hotel room cannot. It sits 1.69 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, in a street that is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. That last point is the verdict: this is a Westlands base, and the centre is a daytime quarter whose halls shut in the late afternoon and whose streets empty with them. Suit families, pets and longer bookings; it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 33 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 this one if the apartment, pool and gym matter more to you than a central address, and check the cancellation terms before you commit. 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 Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Nairobi?+
On Gtc Westlands Road in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It is 2.24 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. Plan on a car or the listed shuttle service for the centre.
Do the suites have kitchens?+
The property lists kitchen, kitchenette, oven and refrigerator, along with a washing machine, so self catering is the point of the place. Apartments also come with a balcony, bath, bathrobe, slippers and toiletries. A restaurant and bars are on site if you would rather not cook.
What is around the hotel, and is it lively at night?+
The street is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. The wider area is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. On site there is a pool bar, bars, a restaurant and a lounge.
The guest score is 4.6 out of 5 from 219 reviews. What does that tell me?+
It is a strong score from a decent number of reviews, and it is the only guest rating given here. It does not say which parts of the stay drew the praise, so weigh it alongside the facilities list rather than instead of it.
