Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments is a three star block of serviced one-bedroom flats off Riverside Drive in Greater Nairobi, listed with kitchens, laundry, parking, wifi and a gym. The decision is simple: this suits you if you want an apartment and a car, and it does not if you want to walk into the centre each morning.
01What it is
Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments lists one-bedroom apartments, not rooms: a kitchen and kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, toaster, coffee, washing machine and iron and board, so you can cook and do laundry rather than eat out every night. The bathroom has a shower, WC, bidet, toiletries, towels and slippers, and the flats are carpeted with a desk, fan, TV, safe, balcony, sheets and free wifi. Building facilities cover 24H security, lifts, housekeeping and cleaning, laundry service, free car parking, a fitness center and gymnasium, a market, family rooms, non smoking rooms and wheelchair access. Car rental service and express check in are listed, and bars. The list has gaps: no restaurant, no airport transfer, no business centre is named, and the river in the facility list tells you the setting, not a view from every flat.
For someone staying at Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments, that combination adds up to a self-contained base rather than a hotel with service at every turn. You get your own kitchen, your own washing machine, parking on site and security around the clock, which is what makes a longer stay work. You give up room service, a restaurant downstairs and the ease of walking out into the centre. The distance is the thing that decides it: the property sits 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the quarter itself. Suits longer stays, families and anyone with a car. Does not suit a first visit built on walking to meetings.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 8 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 Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments through this site and pick your dates against live availability rather than guessing. 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 Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments?+
It sits on Riverside Drive in Greater Nairobi, outside the central quarter itself. The listed distance is 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. Plan on a vehicle for the centre rather than a walk, and ask the property about parking when you book.
What do the apartments include?+
Each one-bedroom flat lists a kitchen or kitchenette with microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, desk, fan, TV, safe, balcony, towels, toiletries and free wifi. The building lists 24H security, lifts, housekeeping, laundry service, free parking, a gym and family rooms, with car rental and express check in.
Is it practical without a car?+
It is harder. The listed distance to the centre is 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area is a daytime quarter where the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. A car or a lift arrangement makes this property work.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking panel on this page, enter your dates and the number of people, and the site returns what is open at Erica Suites Riverside 1BR Apartments. Bookings run through app.impt.io, most rooms can be cancelled free, and confirmation is immediate.
