A 3 star business hotel on Westlands Road, with parking, a kitchenette in the room, a bar and a spa. The distance from the centre is what decides it: this suits you if you are driving, and it does not if you mean to walk into town.
01What it is
The Crossroads Hotel Westlands lists what a working stay needs and lists it plainly. There is a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, free wifi, a business centre with copying, a concierge, express check in, lifts, laundry and dry cleaning, and free car parking. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a TV and a telephone. Several have a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator and toaster, and the hotel runs family rooms, cots and babysitting. Food is covered by a restaurant, a bar, breakfast, lunch, buffet service, room service and special diets. There is also a spa, massage, a terrace and a lounge. The list is thinner on the room itself: shower rather than bath, and no details on how the non smoking rooms are laid out.
For someone staying here, The Crossroads Hotel Westlands adds up to a place that works when your day is in Westlands or when you have a car. Parking is free and on site, the desk never closes, and the kitchenette means you can eat in without going out. The trade is the address. It sits at 2.88 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 36 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the centre it serves is a daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. So this suits business guests, drivers and families who want their own kitchen, and it does not suit anyone who plans to walk into the centre for dinner or to spend the evening there.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 30 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 you want a kitchenette and your own parking space more than you want to be inside the centre. 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 The Crossroads Hotel Westlands?+
It is on Westlands Road, at Crossroads Plaza, in Westlands, part of Greater Nairobi. The site puts it 2.88 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 36 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is the centre, and it is not an evening walk.
What does the hotel actually list in the rooms?+
Air conditioning, a desk, a safe, a TV, a telephone, a hairdryer, toiletries and towels. Some rooms have a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator and toaster. The bathroom is a shower rather than a bath, and there are non smoking rooms.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 2.33 km from Biashara Street and City Market. The centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. If your evening is in town, plan on a vehicle both ways.
What does the guest score tell me?+
It scores 4.3 out of 5 from 415 reviews. That is a solid, consistent result rather than a rave, and it comes from a large enough set of guests to be worth reading. Treat it as a sign of a dependable three star, not a luxury one.
