A 3 star hotel on Karuna Road in Westlands, with a pool, a spa and a restaurant. It is a solid base if you are here for a stretch of work, and the wrong choice if you want to step out of your door into the centre, which sits well away from it.
01What it is
The Zehneria Hotel is a 3 star property on Karuna Road in Westlands, and the list is long on the things a longer stay needs. There is a restaurant, a bar, room service, breakfast and breakfast in the room, a buffet, lunch and special diets. Rooms are air conditioned and carpeted, with a desk, a bath, a shower, a bathrobe, towels, toiletries, a hairdryer, a refrigerator and a safe. Free wifi runs through the building, and there is a 24 hour front desk, express check in, a concierge, luggage storage, lifts and currency exchange. Outside the room you get a pool, a fitness center, a spa, massage, a garden and a lounge. The hotel also leans toward people arriving with a car: free car parking, car rental service and a shuttle service. That last point matters, because this is not a property you pick for walking out of the door into Nairobi's centre.
For the person staying at The Zehneria Hotel, this is a self contained Westlands base rather than a city centre address. You have security, a front desk and a lift at all hours, a pool and a spa for the end of the day, and food in the building, so you are not dependent on the streets around you. It suits someone with business in Westlands, someone who values parking and a car, and families who want space and facilities in one place. It does not suit the visitor whose plan is Nairobi's centre on foot. The Zehneria Hotel sits 3.15 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and the centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 27 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
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 the Zehneria well ahead if your reason for being in Nairobi is in Westlands, because it holds its ground on facilities rather than location and the useful rooms go early. 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 Zehneria Hotel?+
It is on Karuna Road in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi. It stands 3.69 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 47 minutes on foot in a direct line. That places it away from the city centre, in a part of Nairobi where a car or a shuttle is the practical way to get around.
What facilities does The Zehneria Hotel list?+
A restaurant, a bar, a lounge, room service, breakfast, a buffet and lunch. Rooms have air conditioning, a desk, a bath, a bathrobe, a hairdryer, a refrigerator and a safe. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a spa, massage, a garden, free wifi, free car parking, a shuttle service and a 24 hour front desk.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
The centre is not on your doorstep, and the listing here gives you the tools rather than a short walk. The Zehneria Hotel lists a shuttle service, car rental service and free car parking, so you can arrange your own movement. It sits 3.15 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is an average across 759 reviews, so it reflects a broad body of stays rather than one person's view. A score at that level points to a hotel that generally delivers on what it lists without being exceptional. Read recent reviews for the specifics that matter to you, such as the rooms or the food.
