Edmor Residences Riverside is a three star apartment block in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre itself. Apartments with kitchens and laundries decide it for you: if you want to cook and settle in for several nights, the list makes sense. If you want to step out into the quarter, it does not.
01What it is
Edmor Residences Riverside lists apartments rather than rooms, and the fittings follow from that: kitchen, oven, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, coffee, washing machine, iron and board, plus a lounge, desk, balcony, patio, terrace and garden. Each unit has a bathroom with shower, WC, toiletries, towels and slippers, and the rooms are carpeted and non smoking, with family rooms and wheelchair access. The practical side is covered by free wifi, internet access, free car parking, a garage, 24 hour security, smoke detectors, a safe, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry service, lifts and first aid. Shuttle service and massage are also on the list. Where it thins out: there is no restaurant, no bar and no gym, and the massage and shuttle entries are unelaborated, so you cannot tell how they run. A smoking area exists, which is not the same as a smoking room.
What that adds up to at Edmor Residences Riverside is a self catering base in Greater Nairobi, several kilometres out from the centre. You get a full kitchen, your own laundry, parking and a garden, which is more than most central hotels give you, and you pay for it in position. This is a residential address first: quiet, built for longer stays, families and anyone with a car, and the free parking and garage matter if you drive. It suits people who will cook, work from a desk and treat the centre as somewhere to go rather than somewhere to be. It does not suit anyone who wants to walk out of a lobby into the City Market quarter, or anyone staying one night who needs the centre on the doorstep.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 7 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 Residences Riverside if you want an apartment rather than a room, and book ahead if you need a specific unit type, because family rooms and accessible units are limited. 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 Edmor Residences Riverside?+
It is on First Riverside Acres in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district rather than in it. The centre is 3.68 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 46 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.06 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What do the apartments include?+
Kitchens with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus washing machine, iron and board, lounge, desk, balcony and garden or terrace. Bathrooms come with shower, WC, toiletries, towels and slippers. Free wifi, free parking, a garage, housekeeping and 24 hour security are listed. There is no restaurant or bar on the property.
Can I get into the centre easily without a car?+
Plan for it rather than assume it. The location is out in Greater Nairobi, and the closest central point is Biashara Street and City Market. Use the shuttle service the property lists, arrange your own transport, or commit to a long walk in a direct line. Staying here works best if you have a car.
How do I check availability?+
Check dates and unit types through app.impt.io, where bookings for Edmor Residences Riverside are handled. Most rooms can be cancelled free there. Confirm what your apartment includes before you commit, since family and accessible units are limited and the massage and shuttle services are not described in detail.
