A four star serviced apartment in Greater Nairobi with a full kitchen, a washing machine and free parking. It suits self-catering stays that do not need to be inside the centre, and it does not suit anyone who wants the quarter on the doorstep.
01What it is
Riverside Park Lush Oasis 3B by YourHost Nairobi is a four star apartment at Icea Lion Riverside Park, in Greater Nairobi rather than in the centre. The listed facilities are the practical kind: a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, a washing machine, an iron and board, and a safe. There is free wifi, a TV, bath and bathroom, toiletries and towels, lifts, and non smoking rooms. Free car parking is listed. Where the list goes quiet is on the things a hotel usually supplies: no restaurant, no bar, no breakfast, no workspace, no gym, no pool.
What that adds up to is a self contained flat rather than a hotel. At Riverside Park Lush Oasis 3B by YourHost Nairobi you cook, you wash your own clothes and you park your own car, and you get a guaranteed non smoking apartment with a lift up to it. Greater Nairobi is the trade off: you are outside the centre, and the centre here is a daytime quarter, so you are not walking out to a late bar. It suits people staying several nights who want a kitchen and free parking more than they want a lobby, and it does not suit anyone who wants to step out of the door into the middle of things.
02The supplier's photographs
0322 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
Booking here is done through app.impt.io rather than by phone or email. 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 Riverside Park Lush Oasis 3B?+
It sits at Icea Lion Riverside Park, in Greater Nairobi, outside the centre. It is 2.58 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 33 minutes on foot in a direct line, and it is 2 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 it?+
The listing covers a kitchen with oven, microwave, refrigerator and toaster, plus a washing machine, iron and board, and a safe. There is free wifi, a TV, bath and bathroom with toiletries and towels, lifts, non smoking rooms, and free car parking. No restaurant, bar or breakfast is listed.
Do I need a car to stay here?+
The apartment is in Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, and the centre is a daytime quarter. Free car parking is listed, so driving in and out is straightforward. Without a car you would be relying on your own arrangements to get into the centre and back each day.
How do I check whether the apartment is free?+
Availability and the booking itself run through app.impt.io, which shows what is open for your dates. The listing is a four star apartment with twelve photos on file. Cancellation terms on this property are handled there too.
