A three star hotel with a garden, a pool and a long facility list, set on UN Crescent out in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The thing that decides whether it suits you is a car: without one, the trip in and back is the whole problem.
01What it is
Comfort Gardens is a three star property on No 34 Un Cresent in Greater Nairobi, and it lists broadly. Rooms come with air conditioning, a fan, a desk, a safe, a TV and a telephone, plus a balcony, a bath or shower, a bidet and toiletries, and some have a kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven and refrigerator. The hotel lists a restaurant, bars, breakfast, lunch and a buffet, room service, a lounge, a garden, a terrace, a patio and a picnic area, an outdoor pool and a jacuzzi, a business centre, a banquet room, a concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, a barber and beauty salon, massage, a shuttle service, car and bike rental, free parking with a garage and valet parking, free wifi, family rooms, cots and wheelchair access. The thin parts are the ones that matter for the centre: this is a full service hotel in a place you reach by road, and nothing on the list changes that.
For someone staying here, the trade is space and facilities against position. Comfort Gardens gives you parking, a pool, a garden, family rooms and a kitchen in some rooms, which is more than most of what sits in the centre, and it gives you the guest score it has. It suits drivers, families, longer stays and anyone with business on this side of town. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk out of the lobby into the Central Business District, and it does not suit anyone hoping the address is central. It is not.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 42 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs. Of those ten quarters, Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest, and it is still a separate place: the northern edge of the grid, where the city loosens and the roads north begin. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, and that is the quarter's own measure, not a walk from your door.
Treat the location as the wider city. Anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and out, and after dark this is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge and the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, which makes the quarter best for early markets, and the walk up to the National Museum, if you are already there. Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. You are not.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book this one if you have a car or a reason to be on this side of the city, because the facilities are the point and the location is not. 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 Comfort Gardens?+
It is on No 34 Un Cresent in Greater Nairobi. It stands 5.56 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and 6.23 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 78 minutes on foot in a direct line.
What does the hotel actually have?+
Air conditioning, a safe, a TV and a desk in the rooms, plus a restaurant, bars, breakfast and lunch, room service, a garden, a terrace, an outdoor pool, a jacuzzi, a business centre, laundry, massage, a barber and beauty salon, free parking with a garage, and free wifi.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
You can cover the direct line on foot, but the area around the hotel is a transport edge rather than an evening one, and the site's own advice is to cross it by car. Treat a car or the shuttle service as part of staying here, not an extra.
How good is it, according to guests?+
Comfort Gardens scores 4.2 out of 5 from 570 reviews. That is a solid score for a three star hotel of this size, and it points to a place that does the basics well rather than one that surprises you. Read it as dependable, not remarkable.
