Riverside Hidden Oasis is a three star address in Riverside Park, in Greater Nairobi rather than the centre. It comes down to a kitchen: if you want to cook for yourself and keep to a quiet street, this works, and if you want the halls and the streets around you after dark, it does not.
01What it is
Riverside Hidden Oasis is a three star property on Riverside Park in Greater Nairobi. The list runs to the practical: a kitchen with a microwave, a bathroom with a bath, towels and toiletries, free wifi and free car parking, a TV, an iron and board, and non smoking rooms with a smoke detector. It is a self-contained set rather than a hotel set. There is no restaurant, no bar, no gym and no airport transfer on the list, so the kitchen is doing the work those would otherwise do.
For the right visitor, Riverside Hidden Oasis is a base rather than a destination. You shop and cook, you park the car, and you leave the centre to get on with its own evening. It suits someone staying a few nights in Nairobi who wants a quiet residential street and does not mind crossing into town for dinner. It does not suit anyone here for the nightlife or for the full service of a larger hotel, because this is a daytime quarter, the halls shut in the late afternoon and the streets empty with them.
02The supplier's photographs
0315 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 Riverside Hidden Oasis if you want a kitchen and free parking on a quiet Riverside street more than you want a hotel with a restaurant and a bar downstairs. 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 Riverside Hidden Oasis?+
It is on Riverside Park in Nairobi, in Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district. It is 1.97 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers, so it sits just outside the centre it serves.
What do the rooms have?+
The listed facilities cover a kitchen with a microwave, a bathroom with a bath, towels and toiletries, free wifi, a TV, an iron and board, a smoke detector, and non smoking rooms. Free car parking is included. There is no restaurant or bar on the list, so plan to cook or eat out.
Can I walk into the centre from here?+
The site records it as 2.56 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 32 minutes on foot in a direct line. That is a straight line, not a street route, so treat it as a rough measure. The streets around you empty in the late afternoon.
How do I check availability?+
Use the booking link on this page. Most rooms can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. The site holds no rates, so check the dates you want there. Twelve photos of the property are on file if you want to see the rooms first.
