A three star concrete block on Waiyaki Way, built for the conference room and the car. It lists a pool, parking, internet access, laundry and babysitting. What decides it is the distance: this is Greater Nairobi, not the Central Business District, so you stay here for the business park and not for the centre on foot.
01What it is
Westlands Pride lists a swimming pool, parking, internet access, laundry service and babysitting service, five items on the sheet. Four of them are practical: the car has somewhere to go, the clothes get washed, the laptop connects, and a child can be left with someone while the adults are out. The pool is the one item on the list that is not doing a job for a working stay. That is the whole of the facility list. A three star property in Greater Nairobi is not claiming more than this, and you should read the list as complete rather than as a sample. There is no gym, no restaurant named, no airport transfer, nothing about food beyond what the building may or may not run. Babysitting is the only mark that anyone here thought about families.
What that adds up to is a base for a particular kind of trip: work in Westlands, a conference, a car in the parking and a pool at the end of the day. Westlands Pride is squarely for that. The street is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If your meetings are in the city centre, this is the wrong side of town. If you want bars, markets and the halls of the CBD within walking distance, also the wrong side. If you are driving to a conference, it is the right one.
02The supplier's photographs
035 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels are not in Upper Hill and Community, and they are not in any of the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters to them, which is not the same as being in it. Treat the quarter as a reference point, not an address. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out.
The quarter itself is the western ridge above the centre: new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. It is not the CBD proper but the ridge immediately above it, and the place most of the CBD's office space has been moving to since the 2000s: the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies, and an expressway ramp to the airport. It is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The quarter lies 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Westlands Pride if your business is in Westlands and you will have a car, and check the cancellation window before you commit. 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 Westlands Pride?+
It is on Waiyaki Way in Westlands, in the Greater Nairobi area rather than the Central Business District. The site measures it at 7.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 98 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat it as a car or taxi address, not a walking one.
What facilities does the property list?+
Five: a swimming pool, parking, internet access, laundry service and babysitting service. That is the full list, not a selection, so if you need a gym, a restaurant or an airport transfer, none is named here. Parking and internet access are the two most stays here will actually lean on.
Can I walk into central Nairobi from here?+
No, and the property is not sold as a central one. It is 7.03 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Coming in from Greater Nairobi means a car or a taxi into the centre and back, and after dark the street is hotel bars and a ride anywhere else.
What does the 4.3 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is a solid score from a small sample: twelve reviews. Read it as a reasonable three star that has not been widely tested by this site's readers. It tells you the basics were acceptable to the people who wrote in. It does not tell you the property is better than its three star rating.
