A three star apartment style address on Tigoni Road, up on the ridge where the city builds for cars and conferences. Self catering kitchens and parking decide it: good for a driver with a car and a longer stay, wrong if you want to step out of the door into the centre.
01What it is
Fedha Residences is a three star property on Tigoni Road in Greater Nairobi, and the list it publishes is long on the practical things a self catering stay needs. You get a kitchen and kitchenette with a microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and housekeeping and laundry or dry cleaning behind them. Rooms carry a balcony, a bathroom with a shower and WC, toiletries and towels, a safe, a TV with pay per view, an alarm clock and a wake up service. The front desk runs around the clock with express check in, concierge, luggage storage and room service, and there is free wifi, free car parking, lifts, family rooms with cots and high chairs, non smoking rooms and a smoking area. Breakfast is listed, and so are bars. Where the list thins is on the working side: copy and internet access are named but nothing else, and the shuttle service is listed without any detail of where it goes.
What that adds up to is an apartment you can run rather than a hotel that runs you. Fedha Residences suits a guest with a car, a family, or anyone staying long enough that a kitchen, a washing machine and free parking matter more than a lobby. In Greater Nairobi the street feel is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room, and after dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If your trip is a walking one, mornings in the centre and evenings on foot, this is the wrong side of the decision. Fedha Residences is a practical base, not a central one.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 13 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 this site covers. They sit just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten. That puts you in the wider city rather than in the grid itself, so anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby into it.
The ridge above the centre is new concrete, built for the car and the conference room: 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 sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line, though that is the quarter's own distance and not a walk from these hotels.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Fedha Residences if you want a self catering apartment with parking rather than a room in the middle of the city. 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 Fedha Residences?+
It is on Tigoni Road in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge where the new building is for cars and conferences. The site covers ten quarters, and the nearest of them is Upper Hill and Community, 2.44 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does Fedha Residences list in the rooms?+
Kitchens and kitchenettes with a microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, balcony, safe, TV with pay per view and a bathroom with shower, WC, toiletries and towels. Housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning are listed, and so are room service and a 24 hour front desk.
What is it like getting into the centre from here?+
It sits 3.8 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 48 minutes on foot in a direct line, so the centre is not a doorstep. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else, and free car parking and a listed shuttle help if you would rather not walk.
What does the guest score mean?+
It carries 4.1 out of 5 from 115 reviews, which is a solid three star showing rather than a standout one. Read it as a property that does the practical things well for guests who want a kitchen, parking and space, and take it as no more than that.
