A 3 star Westlands Road address with a full-service list: casino, spa, meeting room, parking, free wifi. It sits in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre itself, so the thing that decides this one is whether you have a car or a driver.
01What it is
The Crossroads Hotel Westlands carries a 3 star rating and a broad list of facilities. Free wifi and a 24 hour front desk run alongside a concierge, lifts, luggage storage and laundry service. There is free car parking, a meeting room, a smoking area and wheelchair accessible provision, plus a casino and a spa. Where the list is thin: nothing here is described as a restaurant, a bar or a gym, and no airport transfer is named, so those are open questions rather than included ones.
What that adds up to for someone staying at The Crossroads Hotel Westlands is a practical building in Greater Nairobi, not a central one. The casino and spa give you an evening inside the property, the meeting room and concierge cover a working day, and free parking matters in a city where you would otherwise be arranging it. It suits drivers, people in Nairobi on business with their own transport, and anyone who wants that full service list at a 3 star level. It does not suit a walker who wants the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0313 facilities the supplier lists
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 Crossroads Hotel Westlands if you are arriving by car and want the casino, spa and meeting room under one roof rather than a room in the middle of the quarter. 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 Crossroads Hotel Westlands?+
It is on Westlands Road in Greater Nairobi, which is 2.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 29 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is 1.74 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. So it is close to the centre but not inside it.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
The Crossroads Hotel Westlands lists a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, a concierge, lifts, luggage storage, laundry service, a meeting room, a smoking area, wheelchair accessible provision, a casino and a spa. There is no restaurant, bar or gym on the list, so plan meals out or ask the front desk.
What is it like getting into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You are on Westlands Road, outside the quarter. The centre is a daytime quarter, and this site's own note on the streets there is that the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Free parking at the hotel is the practical answer: drive in during the day, return to the hotel after.
What does the guest score mean?+
The Crossroads Hotel Westlands holds 4.3 out of 5 from 414 reviews. That is a solid 3 star result from a decent number of guests, not a small sample. Read it as a property that generally does what it says on its list, with the usual variation you get at this level.
