A 3 star studio apartment on Lumumba Drive in Greater Nairobi, built around a kitchen and a parking space. It suits a self driving stay with cooking and an early start. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk into the centre, or to spend the evening on the street outside.
01What it is
Chic Rustic Studio Retreat is a self catering apartment rather than a serviced hotel. The listed facilities carry the practical weight: a kitchen and kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, a desk, free wifi and internet access, a TV, an iron and board, and cleaning. The bathroom list is fuller than most: shower, WC, bidet, towels and slippers. There is free car parking, a lift, and non smoking rooms. Where the list thins is service. Nothing here reads as a front desk, a bar, a restaurant or a lounge, and outside the bathroom and the kitchen the rooms are described only as apartments with the basics named.
What Chic Rustic Studio Retreat gives you is a working base on a transport edge of Greater Nairobi. You cook, you park, you sleep, you leave. Lumumba Drive itself is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does, and after dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so you cross it by car. The property sits 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That settles it: right for a driver with business on this side of the city, wrong for a walker or a first time visitor who wants the centre on foot.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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 Ngara and the Globe, and they are not in any of the ten quarters this site covers. They sit a long way out, in the wider city, and Ngara and the Globe is only the nearest of the ten. Treat that as the honest starting point: you are outside the centre, and anything you want in the CBD means travelling in and back out again.
The quarter itself is the northern edge, where the grid loosens and the roads north begin. The Globe Cinema roundabout is the CBD's northern hinge, the fruit market beside it opens at four in the morning, and Museum Hill is the next rise beyond. The street feel is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. It suits early markets and the walk up to the National Museum, and it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, crossed by car. The quarter sits 0.81 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 11 minutes on foot in a direct line, but that measures the quarter, not your hotel.
Read the nearest quarter, Ngara and the Globe05Booking it
Book Chic Rustic Studio Retreat if the apartment setup and the free parking are the point of the trip, and treat the drive into the centre as part of the plan rather than an afterthought. 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 Chic Rustic Studio Retreat?+
On Lumumba Drive, in Greater Nairobi. It is 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Both are car journeys from here.
Does the studio have a kitchen and can I cook?+
Yes. The listed facilities include a kitchen and kitchenette, a microwave and a refrigerator, so self catering is the point of the place. You also get a desk, free wifi and internet access, a TV, an iron and board, and cleaning. Bathroom items include a shower, WC, bidet, towels and slippers.
Is parking available, and what is the street like?+
Free car parking is listed, along with a lift and non smoking rooms. Lumumba Drive is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does. After dark it is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car rather than on foot.
How do I check availability and cancel if plans change?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so the terms are worth reading before you confirm. There are no prices on this site, so check the app for what applies to your dates, and book once your plans are firm.
