Lucy Serviced Apartment is a three star serviced apartment block on Mandera Rd in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre itself. The room has a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV, so you can feed yourself; that, more than anything else here, decides whether it suits you.
01What it is
Lucy Serviced Apartment lists free wifi, free car parking and a lift, the three things that matter most if you are arriving with a car and working from the room. There is a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV, so simple meals and an evening in are possible, and dry cleaning, luggage storage and water are listed as well. The list is thin in the ordinary hotel sense: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast, no gym, no laundry you do yourself, and no reception described beyond luggage storage. A surcharge appears in the facilities without saying what it applies to, which is a gap rather than a feature.
What that adds up to is a self-contained base rather than a serviced stay in the full sense. Lucy Serviced Apartment suits someone who wants a kitchen corner, a parking space and quiet, and who is content to reach the centre by their own means. It does not suit anyone who wants the centre on the doorstep, a bar downstairs, or staff arranging the day. The apartment gives you the room and the parking; the rest of the day is yours to organise.
02The supplier's photographs
0311 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 Lucy Serviced Apartment if a self-catering room and a parking space are what you need, and confirm the surcharge with the property before you travel. 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 Lucy Serviced Apartment?+
It sits on Mandera Rd in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre itself. It is 3.96 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 50 minutes on foot in a direct line. Biashara Street and City Market are the nearest part of the centre this site covers, at 3.34 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the apartment actually have in the room?+
Lucy Serviced Apartment lists a microwave, a refrigerator and a TV, so you can keep food and eat in rather than going out for every meal. Free wifi, free car parking and a lift are listed too, along with dry cleaning, luggage storage and water. There is no restaurant or bar on the list.
How do I get into the city centre from there?+
Mandera Rd is in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, so you plan the trip in rather than walking out of the door into it. The quarter this site covers is a daytime quarter: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Plan your return before the early evening.
How do I check whether the apartment is available?+
Availability and dates sit with the booking page rather than with this site, which holds no rates and takes no reservations. Check the listing for Lucy Serviced Apartment to see which dates are open. If the surcharge on the facilities list matters to your stay, ask the property directly before you book.
