A three star apartment block on Musindi Road, on the fourth floor of City View Suites, in River Road. The kitchen decides it: you cook here, and you are in the working city at full volume rather than in a hotel quarter.
01What it is
Feels Like Home lists the things an apartment needs to work: a kitchen with an oven, a refrigerator and a toaster, a desk, a safe, a TV, a telephone and a radio, a shower, a WC, towels, toiletries and slippers, an iron and board, and lifts to the fourth floor. The building adds a 24 hour front desk, 24 hour security, express check in, housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and dry cleaning, free wifi and internet access, free car parking, a fitness centre, a barber and beauty salon, bars, a market, car rental and a golf course. The list is thin in one direction: there is no restaurant of its own on it, no pool and no airport transfer, so the food and the errands happen outside the door.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat in a quarter that runs at full volume, and the trade is explicit. You get a kitchen, a desk and a door that locks, and you get the working city around it, stages, hardware, lodgings and food cooked in front of you. Feels Like Home suits someone staying a few nights or longer who wants to cook, work and come back to a guarded lift, and who treats River Road as a base rather than a place to linger. It does not suit anyone who wants a quiet hotel quarter, a pool, or a stroll after dark. This site says plainly of River Road: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 1 more on the supplier's own record. Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing in River Road
These hotels sit in River Road, the eastern grid of the Nairobi CBD, a quarter that runs on matatu stages, hardware, lodgings and cheap kitchens, and the working city at full volume. Food is cooked in front of you and the country arrives in the city here, so the streets ask the most of a visitor. You are 0.68 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 9 minutes on foot in a direct line.
This is the CBD's eastern half, and the half the brochures skip. It is where the matatus stage and where the cheapest good food in the centre is cooked. The site is plain about after dark: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. River Road suits anyone wanting nothing tidy and a clear sense of how the city actually runs. It suits no one who wants a quiet evening or an easy walk back.
Read the whole of River Road05Booking it
Book Feels Like Home directly if you want the kitchen and the fourth floor lift confirmed before you arrive, since the front desk runs around the clock and express check in is listed. 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 Feels Like Home?+
It is on Musindi Road, on the fourth floor of City View Suites, in River Road. The address is 0.89 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 12 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 0.42 km from the centre of River Road. The lift goes to the fourth floor.
Can I cook for myself there?+
Yes. The listed facilities include a kitchen with an oven, a refrigerator and a toaster, plus a market in the building, so you can buy food and prepare it rather than eat out every night. Coffee is also listed. There is no restaurant of its own on the list.
Is River Road safe to walk at night?+
This site says plainly of the quarter: not after dark, and not with a phone in your hand. The area is the working city at full volume in the day, with stages, hardware, lodgings and food cooked in front of you. Plan to arrive by vehicle after dark rather than on foot.
What should I check before I commit to a room?+
Ask about the room itself rather than the building's shared list. Confirm that your flat has the kitchen, desk and safe you expect, that the lift and the 24 hour front desk are working for your arrival, and whether parking is free for the nights you are staying. Rates and availability are confirmed at the point of booking.
