A three star one bed apartment on Riverside Drive, listed plainly with free wifi and free car parking and little else on the page. The deciding question is the car: with it, the centre is reachable and the quiet is the point; without it, you are stranded in a residential pocket and the trip gets harder.
01What it is
The Immaculate 1 bed Apartment in Riverside Drive lists two facilities, and they are worth naming: free wifi, and free car parking. It is a three star property, so set your expectations there rather than higher. Twelve photographs are on file, which is enough to see the shape of the rooms but not enough to answer detailed questions, and the list of listed facilities is thin, with no kitchen equipment, no laundry, no workspace and no breakfast named. Those absences matter more than the two items present. Treat the parking as the real headline here, because it is the one thing this apartment does that most places in the centre cannot.
The Immaculate 1 bed Apartment in Riverside Drive sits in Riverside Gardens, in Greater Nairobi, outside the quarters this site covers rather than inside them. That is the whole trade. You get a quieter residential address and a parking space, and in exchange you are not in the middle of anything: the centre is a separate trip, and the Riverside Drive setting is a place to sleep, not a place to wander out of. It suits a self driving visitor who wants a calm base and does not mind moving by car. It does not suit anyone on foot or relying on public transport, or anyone who wants the city outside the door.
02The supplier's photographs
032 facilities the supplier lists
Facilities are the supplier's list, not a check made on the ground.
04Standing outside the ten quarters
These hotels sit outside the ten quarters of the centre this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is only the nearest of the ten, and it is where you would be heading, not where you are sleeping. Take that as the shape of your stay: you are in the wider city, just outside the ten quarters, on the edge of the centre, and anything in the CBD means travelling in and out rather than stepping out of a lobby.
The quarter itself is the market one, 0.63 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 8 minutes on foot in a direct line. 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. The streets are narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide. It suits kikoi and kitenge cloth, curios without the tour-bus markup, and an hour of architecture. It is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them, so plan the return before that.
Read the nearest quarter, Biashara Street and City Market05Booking it
Book the Immaculate 1 bed Apartment in Riverside Drive if the parking space and the quiet street are what you are after, and check the listed facilities against what you need before you commit. 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 the Immaculate 1 bed Apartment in Riverside Drive?+
It is at Riverside Gardens in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central quarters this site covers. That puts it 3.02 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 38 minutes on foot in a direct line. It is also 2.4 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment actually provide?+
The listed facilities are free wifi and free car parking, and the property is rated three star. There is nothing further on file about kitchen equipment, laundry or meals, so ask before you assume. The parking is the item most guests will care about, since it is uncommon in the centre.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
Plan on a car or a taxi, since the apartment is outside the central quarters and the distances on file are measured in a direct line, not along a route. The free parking at the property is what makes this arrangement workable. On foot, the trip in is long.
How do I check availability for the Immaculate 1 bed Apartment in Riverside Drive?+
Bookings run through app.impt.io. Most rooms there can be cancelled free, so you can hold a set of dates while you sort out transport. Confirm the dates you want directly against what the property lists before you pay, since the facility list is short.
