A three star hotel on Ngong Road behind the Kenya Forest Service, built for people arriving by car. Parking, a garden and a restaurant are the whole of the offer. Whether it suits you turns on one thing: you need a vehicle, because the centre is far.
01What it is
Forest Breeze Gardens lists the basics a driver wants: free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, luggage storage, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar and a garden. There is dry cleaning, a smoking area, and wheelchair access. The list is thin where it matters most for a long stay: no gym, no pool, no airport transfer, nothing for children, and no meeting room named, though the ridge around it is built for the conference trade.
Forest Breeze Gardens sits in Greater Nairobi, 10.91 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 137 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is 9.34 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That decides the guest. If you drive everywhere, the garden, the parking and the quiet make it work. If you mean to walk into the centre, it does not.
02The supplier's photographs
0310 facilities the supplier lists
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 Forest Breeze Gardens directly if you are arriving by car and want the parking confirmed before you set out. 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 Forest Breeze Gardens?+
It is on Ngong Road, behind the Kenya Forest Service, in Greater Nairobi. That puts it well outside the central business district and away from Upper Hill. Plan on arriving by car or taxi rather than on foot from the centre.
What does the hotel actually have?+
Free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, breakfast, a restaurant, a bar, a garden, luggage storage, dry cleaning and a smoking area, with wheelchair access. There is no pool, gym, spa or airport transfer on the list, so do not expect resort facilities.
What is it like getting into the centre from there?+
It is 10.91 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 137 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat that as something to cover by vehicle. Upper Hill and Community is 9.34 km away, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the guest score mean?+
It is five out of five, from three reviews. That is a very small sample, so read it as a handful of satisfied recent guests rather than a settled reputation. It tells you nothing about room size, noise or how full the place gets.
