A studio apartment on Lumumba Drive in Greater Nairobi, listed at four stars with a kitchen, wifi and a parking space. Lumumba Drive is a transport edge, not an evening one, so the one thing that decides this place for you is whether you have a car.
01What it is
Cozy and Stylish Studio lists the working parts of a self-catering stay: a kitchen and a kitchenette, a microwave, a refrigerator, and water. Wifi and internet access are free, and free car parking sits alongside a second parking listing. The bathroom gives you a shower, a WC and towels, and there is a TV and non smoking rooms. What the list does not carry is the rest of a hotel: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast, no gym, no room service, no workspace, no laundry. On its own list, this is a four star apartment rather than a four star hotel.
For a stay here that adds up to self-catering north of the centre: you cook, you park, you sleep, and you leave by car. Cozy and Stylish Studio sits 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line, so a stay built around walking into the Central Business District does not hold together. 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, to be crossed by car. Cozy and Stylish Studio suits a driver with business in the north of the city who wants kitchen and parking. It does not suit anyone set on walking to the centre for dinner.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 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 this one only if the parking space and the kitchen are the reasons you are coming, because there is no front desk culture here to fall back on. 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 Cozy and Stylish Studio?+
It sits on Lumumba Drive, in the Royal Suburbs area by Tsavo, in Greater Nairobi. It is 9.65 km from Ngara and the Globe, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The street is a flyover, a roundabout, and a market that starts before the light does.
Can I walk from the studio into the Central Business District?+
No. The studio stands 10.36 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 130 minutes on foot in a direct line. Treat the centre as a car journey, not a walk. Greater Nairobi is a separate quarter from the Central Business District, and a long one.
What do the rooms have, and what is missing?+
Each studio lists a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator, a shower, a WC, towels, a TV and free wifi. Non smoking rooms are available. There is no restaurant, bar or breakfast on the list, so you are cooking or eating out. Free car parking is listed.
How does Lumumba Drive feel after dark?+
It is a transport edge rather than an evening one, so cross it by car. There is no hotel bar to sit in, and the surrounding streets are not a place to walk at night. If an evening in the centre matters to you, this is the wrong side of the city.
