A three star bed and breakfast on the ridge at Lenana Road and Galana Road, built for the car and the conference room. It is 3.18 km from Upper Hill and Community. Book it if you want parking, a desk and a quiet garden, and not if you plan to walk into the centre.
01What it is
Godials Bed & Breakfast is a three star property at the junction of Lenana Road and Galana Road, on the ridge above the city. The list runs to the shape of a working stay: a 24 hour front desk, a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a cafe and bars, free wifi and free internet in the lounge, free car parking, a free newspaper, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and a safe. There is also a garden, a terrace and a library. The list is thin where a leisure guest would look first: no pool, no gym, no spa, no shuttle, and one item, surcharge, is a condition rather than a facility. Breakfast is listed; other meals are not.
What that adds up to is a small, car first base on new concrete, the kind of place you use as a bed, a desk and a parking space, not as a resort. Godials Bed & Breakfast puts you close to the offices at Upper Hill without putting you in the middle of the Central Business District, and its garden, terrace and library give you somewhere to sit that is not your room. It suits a business visitor with a car, a small meeting to hold, or a night before an early appointment on the ridge. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of the door into the centre, and it does not suit a holiday built on being on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0320 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 well outside the centre, in the inner suburbs, and Upper Hill and Community is only the nearest of the ten quarters. That matters more than it sounds: you are staying in the wider city, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out for it. The ridge itself is new concrete built for the car and the conference room, and most of the CBD's office space has been moving up there since the 2000s, which is why you find the tallest towers in the country, the big hospitals, the aid agencies and an expressway ramp to the airport on it. The quarter sits 1.9 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 24 minutes on foot in a direct line.
Upper Hill and Community is best for meetings, a quiet night close in, and a fast run to the airport. After dark it is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. If you want the centre on foot, this is not the right base.
Read the nearest quarter, Upper Hill and Community05Booking it
Book Godials Bed & Breakfast if your stay is built around a car and a desk rather than the middle of town. 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 Godials Bed & Breakfast?+
It is at the junction of Lenana Road and Galana Road, in Greater Nairobi, on the ridge above the centre. It is 4.51 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 57 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a straight line figure, not a route.
What does Godials Bed & Breakfast actually have on site?+
A 24 hour front desk, a business center, a meeting room, a restaurant, a cafe and bars, free wifi and free internet in the lounge, free car parking, a free newspaper, laundry and dry cleaning, luggage storage and a safe, plus a garden, a terrace and a library. Breakfast is listed.
Is Godials Bed & Breakfast a place to walk out from in the evening?+
No. The area is safe and dull: hotel bars, and a ride anywhere else. The street itself is new concrete on a ridge, built for the car and the conference room. Treat this as a car based stay, with a ride for anything beyond the hotel.
How do I check availability at Godials Bed & Breakfast?+
Use app.impt.io, which is where the rooms are booked and where free cancellation on most rooms is handled. The property lists 12 photos on file, so you can see the rooms and grounds before you confirm. No prices appear on this site.
