A three star Ngong Rd hotel on a ridge of new concrete, built for the car and the conference room. What decides it is the drive in: Upper Hill is the closest quarter, the centre is not walkable from here, and after dark the plan is a hotel bar or a ride.
01What it is
The Swan Place is a three star property on Ngong Rd with the sort of list that keeps a working stay running: a 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, laundry service, dry cleaning service, luggage storage, a restaurant on site and a smoking area. The hotel is wheelchair accessible. Water is listed, and a surcharge is listed, which usually means something on the bill sits outside the headline. The list is thin in the places you would notice over more than a night or two: no gym, no pool, no spa, no business centre, and nothing beyond the one restaurant named.
For the right visitor The Swan Place does a straightforward job. If you are here for a conference or meetings on this ridge and you are driving, the free parking, the 24 hour desk, the laundry and the restaurant cover the basics without fuss. If you are here for the centre, the location is the problem: the property is in Greater Nairobi, not in the quarter, and the night is safe and dull with hotel bars and a ride anywhere else. It does not suit anyone planning to walk to the city, and it does not suit anyone wanting the centre on the doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 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 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
The Swan Place is the obvious booking if your business is on this ridge and you are arriving by car, and the app is the quickest way to confirm it. 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 Swan Place?+
It is on Ngong Rd in Greater Nairobi, on a ridge of new concrete. It sits 2.29 km from Upper Hill and Community, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so the address reads as the centre but sits outside it.
What facilities does The Swan Place list?+
A 24 hour front desk, free wifi, free car parking, laundry service, dry cleaning service, luggage storage, a restaurant, a smoking area, water and wheelchair access, with a surcharge also listed. There is no gym, pool or business centre.
Can I walk from The Swan Place into the centre?+
It is not a walk most people would choose. The property sits 4.01 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 51 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the road is built for cars and conferences rather than pedestrians.
How do I check availability at The Swan Place?+
Check live availability and room types for your dates through the booking link on this page. The 24 hour front desk at the property handles the stay itself, and any booking through the app carries the cancellation terms shown at the time.
