A three star apartment block on Riverside Lane West, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central grid, with parking, lifts, a pool and a shuttle on the list. The thing that decides it is how you intend to move: with a car or a booked shuttle it works, on foot against the centre it does not.
01What it is
Lux suites 108 Riverside Apartments lists free car parking, lifts, an outdoor pool, a shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access, and carries a three star rating. For a driver the parking and the lifts are the parts that matter, along with the accessible route through the building. The pool is a straightforward extra. Where the list runs thin is the everyday sort of detail: nothing is said about cooking, laundry, working space or food beyond room service, so if those decide your stay you will be checking before you commit. Twelve photos are on file.
What that adds up to for Lux suites 108 Riverside Apartments is a base built around arrival and movement rather than the street outside. Riverside Lane West sits in Greater Nairobi, well away from the central grid, and the address is its own recommendation for anyone who wants the car parked and the building easy to move through. The trade is that the surrounding quarter is a daytime one: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. Lux suites 108 Riverside Apartments suits a driver, a family or a longer stay with a shuttle booked. It does not suit anyone who wants to step out into the centre in the evening.
02The supplier's photographs
035 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 Lux suites 108 Riverside Apartments once you have settled how you will get in and out, because the parking and the shuttle are the reason to choose it over a room in the centre. 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 Lux suites 108 Riverside Apartments?+
It is on Riverside Lane West, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the central grid. The site measures it at 4.13 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line, and at 3.51 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers.
What does the property actually list?+
Free car parking, lifts, an outdoor pool, a shuttle service and wheelchair accessible access, with a three star rating and twelve photos on file. That is the whole of the list, so anything you need beyond parking, lifts, the pool and the shuttle is worth asking about before you book.
What does staying in Greater Nairobi mean for getting into the centre?+
It means the centre is somewhere you travel to rather than step into. The address sits away from the central grid, and the surrounding quarter is a daytime one: the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them. The shuttle service on the list is the obvious way to cover the distance.
How do I check availability?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where the rooms are booked. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so if your plans are still moving you can hold a room and release it. Do that once you know how you will travel in and out, since the parking and the shuttle are what make this address work.
