A 3 star hotel on a ridge in Greater Nairobi, built for cars and conference rooms rather than for walking the city. It has a garden, a restaurant, a spa and free parking. The distance from the centre is the deciding fact.
01What it is
The Joshua Gardens lists the basics a driver wants: free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk and luggage storage. It also runs a restaurant, breakfast, coffee, dry cleaning, a meeting room, a picnic area, a garden and a spa, with a surcharge appearing in the list. That is a wide facility sheet for a 3 star property, though the spa and restaurant detail is not given, so treat those as names rather than promises. The list is thin on what a carless visitor needs, because nothing here gets you into the centre.
What The Joshua Gardens adds up to is a quiet ridge property for people arriving by car, with a conference room upstairs and a garden to sit in afterwards. It is not a base for seeing Nairobi on foot. It sits 10.98 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 138 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.08 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Suits drivers and conference groups. Does not suit anyone planning to walk into town.
02The supplier's photographs
0313 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 The Joshua Gardens if you are driving and want parking, quiet and a meeting room 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 The Joshua Gardens?+
It is on Comboni 02 Joshua Gardens in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge where the street feel is new concrete built for the car and the conference room. It is 10.98 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 138 minutes on foot in a direct line, so plan on arriving by car or taxi.
What does The Joshua Gardens list?+
Free wifi, free car parking, a 24 hour front desk, luggage storage, breakfast, coffee, dry cleaning, a restaurant, a meeting room, a picnic area, a garden and a spa, with a surcharge appearing in the list. It is a 3 star property, so expect the basics done plainly rather than luxury.
Can I walk into central Nairobi from here?+
No. The Joshua Gardens is 9.08 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, and further from the centre. After dark the area is safe and dull, with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. A car or a taxi is the practical answer.
What does the 3.2 out of 5 guest score mean?+
It is a middling score from 34 reviews, which is a small sample. Read it as a hotel that does the job for drivers and conference groups without delighting anyone. If you need a central address or a lively evening, the score is a fair warning.
