This is a four star hotel on Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. It carries a pool, a spa, a fitness centre and full dining, and the guest score is 4.4 out of 5 from 4913 reviews. Choose it if you want a self-contained stay; look elsewhere if you mean to walk the centre.
01What it is
PrideInn Azure Hotel Nairobi Westlands is a four star property on Lantana Road with a long facilities list. It has an outdoor pool, a pool bar, a fitness centre, a spa with massage and jacuzzi, a restaurant, bars, a lounge, a terrace and a garden. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a minibar, a bath or shower, a hairdryer, a bathrobe and slippers. There is a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, express check in, concierge, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning, room service, free wifi, free car parking, a business centre, a games room, a playground and family rooms. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are covered, including buffet and breakfast in room. The thin parts are the activity lists: aerobics, yoga, golf course, market, picnic area and shuttle service are named without any detail on when or how they run.
For a stay in Greater Nairobi, PrideInn Azure Hotel Nairobi Westlands works as a base you do not have to leave. The pool, spa, gym, restaurants and bars are all on site, so an evening needs no planning. It is 2.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 3.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line. The centre is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. So the hotel suits anyone who wants facilities and quiet over street life, families, business travellers, people staying a few nights. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the middle of things.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 46 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 facilities matter more than the address: the pool, spa and dining are the reason to choose it, and the Westlands position keeps you out of the centre at night. 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 PrideInn Azure Hotel Nairobi Westlands?+
On Lantana Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. It sits 2.79 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 3.4 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 43 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel list for guests?+
An outdoor pool with a pool bar, a fitness centre, a spa with massage and jacuzzi, a restaurant, bars, a lounge, a terrace and a garden. Rooms have air conditioning, a safe, a minibar and a bath or shower. There is free wifi, free car parking, a business centre and family rooms.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The centre is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so an evening there is not the point. The hotel is set up to be self-contained, with dining, a pool and a spa on site, and the centre is a short drive rather than a walk you would want to make twice.
What does the 4.4 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It comes from 4913 reviews, which is a large enough body of feedback for the figure to mean something. It points to a property that guests rate well without being at the very top of the scale. Read it as a dependable four star, not as an exceptional one.
