Westlife Homes is a three star apartment property on Northern Bypass Rd in Greater Nairobi, well outside the centre this site covers. The list is built for longer, self catering stays with a car. If you want the Central Business District on foot, the distance is the thing that decides it against the place.
01What it is
Westlife Homes lists apartments rather than rooms, which means kitchens and kitchenettes, refrigerators, microwaves and the utensils that go with them. Bedrooms come with air conditioning, non smoking rooms, a safe, a shower and a WC, plus towels, sheets, slippers and toiletries. There is free wifi and internet access, a TV, a DVD player, a CD player and a radio. Breakfast, lunch, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning are all listed. Outside there is a garden, a terrace and a picnic area, and the building has 24 hour security, smoke detectors, first aid and wheelchair access. A barber and beauty salon, a market, car rental, a concierge, a shuttle service and free car parking round out the list. The list goes quiet on what the apartments look out onto, how they are laid out, and what the golf course entry actually covers, so treat those as open.
What Westlife Homes adds up to is a self contained base on a road built for movement rather than for walking out to dinner. The apartment format, the kitchen, the laundry and the parking suit a stay of several nights where you cook some of your own meals and drive to whatever you have come for, alone or with family. It does not suit a short city break on foot. The street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so you cross it by car. Against that, the address sits 15.09 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 189 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 14.37 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so a car is not a preference here but the point.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 16 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
These hotels are not in Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Westlife Homes if your trip is a car based, self catering stay on the northern edge of the city rather than a walking one in the centre. 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 Westlife Homes?+
It sits on Northern Bypass Rd in Nairobi, in the Greater Nairobi area. That puts it outside the Central Business District and away from Ngara and the Globe, the nearest quarter this site covers. Plan on arriving and moving around by car or shuttle rather than on foot.
What do the apartments include?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with a refrigerator and microwave, air conditioning, non smoking rooms, a safe, a shower and WC, towels, sheets, slippers and toiletries. There is free wifi, a TV and DVD player, and breakfast, lunch, laundry and cleaning are listed. A garden, terrace and picnic area sit outside.
How do I get into the city centre from here?+
By car. The property lists car rental, a shuttle service and free car parking, which is the practical answer to the distance. The area is described on this site as a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and as a transport edge rather than an evening one, so you cross it by car.
How do I check availability and cancel?+
Availability and bookings go through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free there, and the terms are shown at the point of booking. If you need to know whether a particular apartment is open for your dates, that is also the place to look.
