A 3 star hotel on Chiromo Rd in Greater Nairobi, with a pool, a garden and free parking, and a Westlands address that keeps you out of the centre after dark. It suits people with a car or a driver, and anyone who wants a quiet base; it does not suit anyone here to walk the city at night.
01What it is
Travelers Safari Westlands lists the practical things first: a 24 hour front desk, concierge, free wifi, free car parking, laundry and dry cleaning, and wheelchair access. Outside there is a garden, a terrace, a picnic area and a smoking area, plus an outdoor pool and a kids pool. The list is thin on food and drink: no restaurant, no bar and no breakfast are named, and entertainment activities is the only line that suggests anything on site after the desk. Twelve photos are on file, so you can see the rooms and grounds for yourself before you commit.
What that adds up to is a 3 star hotel that works as a base rather than a destination. Travelers Safari Westlands puts its effort into the pool, the garden and the parking, and leaves eating and drinking to the surrounding streets. Book it if you have a car, if you are travelling with children who will use the kids pool, or if you want a quiet place to sleep away from the centre. Do not book it if you want a bar downstairs, a restaurant in the building, or a Westlands address you can walk from after dark. There is a shuttle service, but no rate, timetable or destination is published here.
02The supplier's photographs
0318 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 Travelers Safari Westlands if the pool and the parking matter more to you than a restaurant downstairs, and check the room type carefully because the facilities list is thin on food. 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 Travelers Safari Westlands?+
It is on Chiromo Rd in Greater Nairobi, and it sits 1.6 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts it outside the central business district rather than in the middle of it, so the centre is a separate trip.
What facilities does the hotel list?+
Travelers Safari Westlands lists a 24 hour front desk, concierge, free wifi, free car parking, laundry, dry cleaning, a garden, a terrace, a picnic area, a smoking area, an outdoor pool, a kids pool, a shuttle service, entertainment activities and wheelchair access. No restaurant or bar appears on the list.
How do you get into the centre from the hotel?+
The hotel is 2.17 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 28 minutes on foot in a direct line. The centre itself is a daytime quarter, its halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan to travel back before that rather than after.
How do you check availability at Travelers Safari Westlands?+
Availability and room types are shown through app.impt.io, where most rooms can be cancelled free. Because the listed facilities name no restaurant or bar, check what your room includes before you confirm, and ask the front desk about the shuttle service if you need it.
