Lake View Studios is a 3 star set of studios on Lake View Drive in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre rather than in it. The thing that decides it is the distance: if you need to be in the CBD on foot each morning, this is the wrong side of town.
01What it is
Lake View Studios is a 3 star property on Lake View Drive in Greater Nairobi, with a garden and terrace and free car parking. Each studio has a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster, plus a bath or shower, towels, slippers, a desk, a sofa bed and a TV. Free wifi, housekeeping and laundry service are listed. The thin part is the food: no restaurant, no cafe, only coffee-making kit, so you cook or you go out. The list also carries a smoking area and non smoking rooms, which is standard for the rating.
What that adds up to for someone staying at Lake View Studios is a self-contained base, not a hotel with a lobby life. You get a kitchen, a washing machine service, a place to park and a desk, which suits a longer stay or a working trip where the day is elsewhere. The guest score is 4.2 out of 5 from 11 reviews, a small sample: useful as a direction, not a verdict. It suits drivers and self-caterers who want quiet. It does not suit anyone planning to walk into the CBD, or anyone who wants a bar and a restaurant downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0335 facilities the supplier lists
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 Lake View Studios if you want a kitchen, parking and a quiet residential street, not a central address. 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 Lake View Studios?+
It is on Lake View Drive in Greater Nairobi, outside the central business district. It stands 7.46 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 94 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 6.87 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. A car is the practical way in.
What do the studios include?+
Each one lists a kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, oven, refrigerator and toaster, plus a bath or shower, WC, towels, slippers, a desk, a sofa bed and a TV. Free wifi, housekeeping, laundry service and luggage storage are listed. There is no restaurant on the property, so you cook or eat out.
Is there parking, and can I get around without a car?+
Free car parking is listed, along with a garden and terrace. Without a car you are relying on rides into the centre, because the address sits well outside the quarter. The street is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide.
What does the 4.2 out of 5 guest score mean here?+
It is an average from 11 reviews, so treat it as a direction rather than a settled verdict. A small sample can swing on a handful of stays. It tells you past guests were broadly satisfied, not that the property has been tested at scale.
