A three star serviced property on School Lane in Westlands, with free car parking, housekeeping and laundry. The deciding fact is the setting: Greater Nairobi, well outside the central quarter, so it works for a driver or a longer stay and much less so for anyone on foot.
01What it is
Sherry Homes Raha Westlands is a three star property on School Lane, and its listed facilities are short and practical: free car parking, housekeeping and laundry service. That is the whole list. Nothing here covers food, drink or a front desk, so there is no on-site restaurant, bar or cafe to fall back on and no catering to lean on at the end of a day. If you want to eat in, that is your own arrangement, and if you want company or a drink downstairs, this is not that kind of place. The parking is the item most visitors will actually feel, because it is the one that changes how the property works day to day.
For someone staying at Sherry Homes Raha Westlands, what that adds up to is a quiet, functional base: somewhere to park, somewhere kept clean, and laundry handled. It sits in Greater Nairobi, and the distances are real. It is 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 4.16 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line. A car makes those numbers trivial and walking turns them into an outing. It suits a driver, a longer stay, or someone whose business is in the west of the city. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on foot, and the streets being a daytime quarter settles the evening question.
02The supplier's photographs
033 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 Sherry Homes Raha Westlands if a parked car and a quiet base matter more to you than being inside the centre, and check the dates you want before you build a trip around 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 exactly is Sherry Homes Raha Westlands?+
It is on School Lane, in Westlands, inside Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, and Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 4.16 km away in a direct line, so plan on a vehicle rather than a walk.
What facilities does Sherry Homes Raha Westlands list?+
Three: free car parking, housekeeping and laundry service. There is no restaurant, bar or cafe listed, and nothing about a front desk or food, so meals and evening drinks are your own arrangement. The parking is the facility that most changes how a stay here runs, because the property sits outside the centre.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You are outside the quarter, so the trip in is a deliberate one, and the return matters just as much. The area is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. A car makes the trip straightforward, and Sherry Homes Raha Westlands has free parking for exactly that.
How do I check whether Sherry Homes Raha Westlands has rooms for my dates?+
Check availability for the specific nights you want before you commit to anything else, because the property is small and its listed facilities are limited. Look at the dates first, then decide whether a base outside the centre with parking suits the trip you are actually taking, rather than the one you had in mind.
