A three star hotel on Fair Acres Road off Langata Road, well outside the centre, with a garden, a restaurant and parking on site. It suits families and people with a car. Without one, this is a poor base for the Central Business District.
01What it is
Fair Acres Boutique Hotel is a three star property on Fair Acres Road off Langata Road, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. The list is strongest on family and function needs: family rooms, cots, high chairs, a playground and babysitting, alongside banquet and meeting space with a garden, terrace and lounge. Rooms run to non smoking, carpeted and wheelchair accessible, with bath or shower, desk, TV, safe, iron and board, hairdryer and toiletries, and some have a kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, oven, refrigerator, toaster and coffee. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, buffet and room service are covered, and there is a bar and karaoke. Thin spots: no pool, no gym, no airport transfer detail beyond a shuttle, and no spa beyond massage.
For someone staying here, Fair Acres Boutique Hotel trades closeness for room to move. The everyday things work: free wifi, free car parking, a garage, valet parking, a 24 hour front desk, concierge, currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and express check in. The distances tell the story. It is 11.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 145 minutes on foot in a direct line. It suits families, drivers and anyone with business on this side of the city. It does not suit a visitor who wants to walk to the Central Business District, and the area is safe and dull, so evenings mean the hotel bar or a ride somewhere else.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 35 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 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 this one if you want family space, parking and a garden rather than a central address. 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 Fair Acres Boutique Hotel?+
It stands at 35 Fair Acres Road Off Langata Road, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it 9.71 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. It sits on the ridge side of the city, built for the car and the conference room.
What does the hotel list for families?+
Family rooms, cots, high chairs, a playground and a babysitting service. There are also banquet rooms, a garden and a terrace. For longer stays some rooms add a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster.
Can I walk into the Central Business District from here?+
You can, but it is not the point of the place. The hotel is 11.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 145 minutes on foot in a direct line. Practical for a driver; not the base to pick if you want the centre on foot.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is 4.6 out of 5 from 573 reviews. That is a strong score across a large number of stays, and it points to the property doing the basics well: front desk, meals, parking and rooms. It is not a rating of how central the hotel is.
