A four star two bed apartment in Riverside Gardens, Greater Nairobi, sleeping four, with a balcony, parking and a full kitchen. The one thing that decides it: you have a car, or you are content to be outside the centre rather than on top of it.
01What it is
2 Bed Apartment Sleeps 4 Balcony Parking Wifi is a four star apartment with a balcony, free car parking and free wifi, and the kitchen is the strong part of the list: oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster and washing machine, plus towels, toiletries, a hairdryer and an iron and board. There is a fireplace, a CD player and a TV, and the whole place is non smoking. A garden and wheelchair access are listed. What the list does not give you is any sense of service: no front desk, no restaurant, no bar, nothing you can lean on in the evening. This is a self-contained flat, not a hotel with staff waiting.
For a four star property, 2 Bed Apartment Sleeps 4 Balcony Parking Wifi asks you to run the place yourself, and that is the point of it. A group of four or two couples get a kitchen, a washing machine and a balcony for the price of one hotel room each, and the parking means a car is genuinely useful here. It suits longer stays, families, and anyone who would rather cook than eat out. It does not suit a first visitor who wants to step out of the door into the city, or anyone without a car who expects to walk to the centre.
02The supplier's photographs
0326 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 this one the moment your dates are fixed, because apartments of this size in Greater Nairobi go early. 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 the apartment?+
It is on Riverside Gardens in Greater Nairobi, which is 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is also 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
Two bedrooms, a bathroom, a full kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, towels, toiletries and a hairdryer. There is a balcony, a garden, free wifi, free car parking and wheelchair access. It is non smoking throughout and sleeps four.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The address is in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre, and the centre is not on the doorstep. Free parking is listed, so if you are driving you are covered. Without a car, you are relying on lifts or taxis for everything, including the evening.
How do I check whether it is free?+
Availability and dates are handled through app.impt.io, where you can see what is open and confirm a booking. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and there is no need to call the property directly.
