A three star hotel with a garden, a bar and parking, set on Soitolol Road in Ngara. The car park and the free wifi decide it: this is a place you sleep in and leave by car, not a base you walk out of into town.
01What it is
Bermuda Garden Hotel lists the practical things first: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, laundry service, luggage storage and newspapers. There is a restaurant, a bar or snack bar, a terrace and a garden, and breakfast is listed. Wheelchair access is listed too. The list is thin on the room itself, nothing on size, air conditioning or how the building is arranged, and one entry, fishing, has no business on a Nairobi hotel page.
What that adds up to is a quiet, drive in, drive out three star on the Ngara side of the city, and the name is honest about the garden being the best of it. Bermuda Garden Hotel suits you if you have a car, want parking and wifi and a bar at the end of the day, and do not need to be on foot in the centre. It does not suit you if you plan to walk to meetings on Kenyatta Avenue every morning, or if you want the centre itself outside the door.
02The supplier's photographs
0316 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in Ngara and the Globe
Ngara and the Globe is the northern edge of the CBD, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. A flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does: that is the street feel here, and it holds all day. 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 quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line. Early markets and the walk up to the National Museum are what this quarter is best for.
After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The halls and market stalls shut, and the roundabout turns into a place you pass through, not a place you linger. This suits you if you want the fruit market at first light or a base on the northern side of the centre. It does not suit anyone who wants an evening on foot, and it does not suit a trip built around being out after dark.
Read the whole of Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Bermuda Garden Hotel if the car park and the quiet matter more to you than being on foot 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 is Bermuda Garden Hotel?+
It is on Soitolol Road off Desai Road, in Ngara, 1 km from the centre of Ngara and the Globe. That puts it on the northern edge of the central area rather than inside it, so you are near the city without being in the middle of it. The street is a flyover, a roundabout and a market that starts before the light does.
What does the hotel actually list?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, laundry service, luggage storage and newspapers. There is a restaurant, a bar or snack bar, a terrace and a garden, and breakfast is listed, along with wheelchair access. The room details are thin: nothing on size, air conditioning or layout.
Can I walk into the centre from Ngara?+
It is possible on paper and poor in practice. The hotel is 1.79 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 23 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area after dark is a transport edge rather than an evening one. Cross it by car, or take a car into the centre.
What does the guest score mean here?+
Bermuda Garden Hotel has 4 out of 5 from 266 reviews. That is a solid three star result from a large number of stays, and it points to a place that does the basics without surprises. Read it as a dependable, plain hotel rather than anything more than that.
