A four star apartment block on Riverside Drive, with kitchens, balconies and free parking. The kitchen is the deciding factor: you cook here rather than eat out, and you need a car or a ride to reach the centre.
01What it is
Lamevara Riverside Cozy Retreat is a four star apartment property on Riverside Drive, in Winchester Gardens. The list is built around self-catering: a kitchen with microwave and refrigerator, a balcony, a desk, a safe and a TV, with towels and slippers provided and cleaning and laundry services listed. WiFi and internet access are free, as is car parking, and there are lifts, non smoking rooms, an iron and board, a shower and a WC. What is missing from the list is as telling: no restaurant, no bar, no gym, no pool, nothing that would keep you inside the building once the apartment door closes.
For someone staying here, Lamevara Riverside Cozy Retreat works as a base you leave in the morning and come back to in the evening, cook in, sleep in, and go out from again. It suits a couple or a small group in Nairobi for more than a night or two who want a kitchen and private parking and who are not expecting the building to entertain them. It does not suit anyone without a car, anyone who wants the centre on foot, or anyone who wants a bar and a restaurant downstairs. The property is 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line, and 3.59 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. The appeal of the immediate street is narrow, shaded, and the only part of the centre where the shops are still one-family wide, and it is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0324 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 Lamevara Riverside Cozy Retreat if a kitchen, free parking and a quiet apartment matter more to you than a lobby with a bar. 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 Lamevara Riverside Cozy Retreat?+
It is on Riverside Drive, in Winchester Gardens, in Greater Nairobi. It sits outside the ten quarters this site covers. Biashara Street and City Market is the nearest of them at 3.59 km, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property list, and what is missing?+
The list covers self-catering essentials: kitchen, microwave, refrigerator, balcony, desk, safe, TV, towels, slippers, free WiFi and free car parking, with lifts, cleaning and laundry services. There is no restaurant, no bar and no gym listed, so the building itself offers little beyond the apartment.
How do you get into the centre from here?+
Not on foot in any practical sense. Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue is 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line, and the area around the property is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability is checked and the booking made through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and the booking carries the CO2 removal and the credit back described on this page.
