A four star two bedroom apartment on Riverside Drive, west of the centre, built for people staying several nights rather than one. The deciding fact is the car: it lists free parking, it sits outside the quarter, and the centre is a drive, not a stroll, from the door.
01What it is
Elegant 2 bedroom in Riverside Square is an apartment rather than a hotel: two bedrooms, a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, iron and board, and a lounge with a TV. It lists free wifi, a desk, lifts, non smoking rooms, a safe, housekeeping, laundry service and round the clock security. On site you get a garden, terrace, picnic area, outdoor pool, kids pool, playground and fitness center, plus a restaurant, business center, massage, car rental and shuttle service. Cots and high chairs are provided. The list thins at the edges: bowling and horse back riding are not things you do on Riverside Drive, and no detail is given about how the apartment is laid out or how the pool is run.
For a family or a group who want space, a kitchen and a washing machine instead of a room and a minibar, Elegant 2 bedroom in Riverside Square answers a real need, and the free parking and security matter to anyone arriving by car. It is a weaker fit for a first visit built on walking. The address is 4.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.46 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The centre is a daytime quarter, and it suits people who have finished their business there by late afternoon.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 21 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 this one only if you are content to drive in and out of the centre for everything, because the apartment sits outside the quarter and the quarter shuts 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 is Elegant 2 bedroom in Riverside Square?+
It is at 100 Riverside Drive in Greater Nairobi, west of the central business district and outside the quarter this site covers. It is 4.08 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line. A car or a shuttle is the practical way in.
What does the property actually have?+
Two bedroom apartments with a full kitchen, washing machine, lounge and balcony, plus free wifi, a desk, lifts, housekeeping and laundry, and round the clock security. On site there is an outdoor pool, a kids pool, a playground, a garden, a fitness center, a restaurant and a business center.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
It helps. The property lists free car parking and a car rental service, and the streets around the centre empty in the late afternoon. If you plan to walk to meetings and back, this address will frustrate you. If you drive, it works.
How do I check availability for specific dates?+
Check dates and apartment options through app.impt.io, where most rooms can be cancelled free. The property lists two bedroom apartments with cots and high chairs, so a family booking should say so at the time of reserving rather than on arrival.
