Edmor Lolite is a four star apartment property in Riverside Gardens, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre itself. The deciding question is self-catering: the apartments carry kitchens, washing machines and their own parking, so the stay is aimed at people settling in for several days. If you want a short walk to the office, this is the wrong address.
01What it is
Edmor Lolite lists apartments rather than ordinary rooms, and the fit-out follows that. Each unit has a kitchen with an oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, and a bathroom with shower, WC and toiletries. There is a desk, a safe, a fan, carpeting, a balcony or patio, a TV and free wifi. The building provides lifts, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning, free car parking, a garden and a lounge, with 24 hour security, smoke detectors, first aid and a smoking area. Family rooms are listed. The list is thin on dining and on anything social: no restaurant and no bar. Breakfast is not offered, and a kitchen is expected to cover it.
What that adds up to at Edmor Lolite is a self-catering base on the edge of the centre, not a hotel in the middle of it. The site is 4.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.67 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. A shuttle service is listed, so ask the property what it covers before you rely on it for daily trips. Suits families, small groups and longer stays that want a kitchen, a washing machine and a car parked on site. Does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the lobby into the office, or who wants dinner and a bar downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 9 more on the supplier's own record. 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 Edmor Lolite early if your dates fall in a busy stretch, because apartment stock in Greater Nairobi is limited and the property is aimed at longer stays rather than single nights. 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 Edmor Lolite?+
It is in Riverside Gardens, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central business district. The site gives two fixed points: 4.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.67 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What is in the apartments?+
Kitchens with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, a bathroom with shower and WC, toiletries, towels and sheets. There are desks, safes, fans, carpeting, balconies or patios and TVs. The building lists lifts, housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, free wifi, free car parking, a garden and a lounge. Meals are not provided.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Edmor Lolite is outside the centre, and a shuttle service is listed, so ask the property what routes it covers before you depend on it. The two fixed distances are 4.29 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 54 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.67 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
How do I check availability?+
Availability and booking run through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking terms are shown before you confirm. If your dates are firm, book early, since the property lists apartment units and family rooms rather than a large number of ordinary rooms.
