Bliss haven garden units is a 3 star apartment and garden property on Laikipia Rd, outside the centre in Greater Nairobi, with kitchens, laundry and full-time security. It suits people staying several nights or more who want self-catering and parking. If you need to be in the CBD on foot, it does not.
01What it is
Bliss haven garden units lists apartments rather than ordinary hotel rooms, and the apartment end of the list is the strongest part of it: kitchens and kitchenettes with an oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and coffee, a washing machine, iron and board, and a balcony, patio or terrace with a garden, picnic area and playground attached. Bathrooms come with a bath or shower, bidet, WC, towels, toiletries, hairdryer and slippers. There is free wifi and internet access, a desk, a fan, a TV, a safe, a cot and family rooms, plus a lift, luggage storage, housekeeping and dry cleaning. The thin part of the list is anything resembling a hotel's public face: no restaurant, no bar, no meeting rooms, and no gym or pool are named. What you get is an apartment with a front desk and a guard, not a hotel with an apartment wing.
For a stay of several nights, that combination is the point: you can cook, wash clothes, spread out in a separate room and park a car without paying a hotel for each of those things. Bliss haven garden units keeps a 24 hour front desk and 24 hour security, express check in, non smoking rooms, smoke detectors and first aid on the list, with a market nearby for the kitchen to be worth having. The distance is the trade. Bliss haven garden units is 3.88 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 49 minutes on foot in a direct line, so this is not a base for walking into the CBD for meetings. It suits self-catering families, people on longer stays, and anyone with a car. It does not suit a two-night business trip that needs the centre on foot.
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
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 this property through the site if you want an apartment and a garden rather than a hotel room, and check the kitchen and laundry setup 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 Bliss haven garden units?+
It is on Laikipia Rd in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre rather than in it. Biashara Street and City Market, the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, is 3.27 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on a car or a ride into town rather than a walk.
What is in the apartments?+
The listed apartments have kitchens or kitchenettes with an oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and coffee, plus a washing machine, iron and board. Bathrooms have a bath or shower, bidet, WC, towels, toiletries, hairdryer and slippers. Rooms also list a desk, fan, TV, safe, balcony or patio, and cots for families.
Does it work as a base for the CBD?+
Only if you have transport. The centre is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Bliss haven garden units is 3.27 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so you would not walk in for a morning meeting.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and room types are shown when you search through app.impt.io, which is where bookings for this property are handled. Check the apartment layout and whether you want a kitchen or a kitchenette at that point, and confirm the free cancellation terms before you complete the booking.
