A 3 star hotel on Stima Lane off Lower Kabete Road, west of the CBD. The list runs to business and wellness: fitness centre, spa, meeting room, restaurant, bars, lounge, terrace. What decides it is the setting. You get parking and quiet here, but the street outside is a daytime quarter, so plan on a car or a shuttle.
01What it is
WE Hotel and Suites is a 3 star property on Stima Lane off Lower Kabete Road, outside the central grid. Its listed facilities are mostly the working kind: 24 hour front desk, express check in and check out, business center, meeting room, banquet space, lifts, luggage storage, safe, laundry and dry cleaning, free wifi, free newspaper, free car parking and a shuttle service. It lists a fitness centre, spa, restaurant, cafe, bars, lounge, terrace and smoking area. The list runs thin on the ordinary: no room service, no pool, and it carries a surcharge line. The street is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. After dark it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
What that adds up to depends on how you spend your day. WE Hotel and Suites gives you somewhere to park, somewhere to eat, a desk and a meeting room, and a spa at the end of it, with a shuttle to move you when you need to go. It is a business and conference address that happens to have a fitness centre, not a leisure hotel. It suits the traveller with a car or a driver, the business guest with meetings on this side of town, and anyone who prefers a quiet lane to a loud street. It does not suit the visitor who wants to step out of the lobby and into the centre, or who plans to walk the city at night.
02The supplier's photographs
0327 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 WE Hotel and Suites if you want a 3 star base west of the CBD with parking and a shuttle rather than a street address. 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 WE Hotel and Suites?+
It is on Stima Lane off Lower Kabete Road, in Greater Nairobi, west of the central business district. It stands 3.97 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line. The address is a lane rather than a main street, which keeps it quiet.
What does WE Hotel and Suites list for guests?+
A 24 hour front desk, business center, meeting room and banquet space for work, plus a restaurant, cafe, bars, lounge and terrace for eating and drinking. It also lists a fitness centre, spa, free wifi, free car parking, a shuttle service and laundry. It does not list a pool or room service.
What is the area around WE Hotel and Suites like?+
A daytime quarter. The halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The lane is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. Plan your evenings accordingly: the hotel has a lounge and bars, but the street does not.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean for WE Hotel and Suites?+
It is the average from 567 reviews: solid, not perfect. Read what recent guests say about the specific things you care about, such as the rooms, the food and the shuttle, rather than the number on its own. It is a 3 star property, so set your expectations to that grade.
