A three star apartment block on School Lane in Westlands, with a pool, a spa, meeting space and free parking. The facilities are its argument; the position is the thing to weigh. It sits outside the centre it borrows its name from, closer to the business hotels of Westlands than to the halls of the CBD.
01What it is
Fenesi Gardens Apartments lists the full working set: 24 hour front desk, concierge, lifts, luggage storage, housekeeping and laundry, so you can arrive late and hand over the practicalities. There is a restaurant, a lounge and banquet space, a meeting room, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, an outdoor pool and a spa. The list thins at the edges. Casino, smoking area and the single word surcharge sit on it without explanation, and no details are given for the accessible room, the safe or the dry cleaning beyond their names.
For a three star property on School Lane, Fenesi Gardens Apartments reads as a place built around its compound rather than its street: pool, garden, restaurant and gym-free calm, with a car park that makes it workable if you are driving yourself. If your days belong in the CBD, that is the trade you are making: 3.77 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 48 minutes on foot in a direct line. Suits drivers, meeting-goers and anyone who wants the facilities of a larger hotel in a low building. Does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0323 facilities the supplier lists
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 Fenesi Gardens Apartments if the facility list matters more to you than the address, and check the apartment layout rather than assuming a standard room. 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 Fenesi Gardens Apartments?+
On School Lane in Westlands, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It is 3.22 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That puts you among the Westlands offices and restaurants, not among the CBD halls.
What facilities does Fenesi Gardens Apartments actually have?+
A 24 hour front desk, concierge, lifts, luggage storage, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning. There is a restaurant, a lounge, banquet and meeting space, free wifi, free car parking, a garden, an outdoor pool and a spa. Casino, surcharge and smoking area are listed without any detail.
Can I walk into the centre from Westlands?+
You can, and the numbers are worth knowing before you decide. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 3.77 km from the property, which is 48 minutes on foot in a direct line. Westlands is a daytime quarter, and the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return.
How do I check availability at Fenesi Gardens Apartments?+
Use the booking link on this page: most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking runs through app.impt.io. Availability is confirmed at the point of booking, so enter your dates there rather than asking the front desk, which handles arrivals rather than reservations.
