A 3 star apartment-style property on Riverside Drive in Greater Nairobi, with a kitchen, a fridge and free parking, and the centre a direct-line walk away. What decides it is whether you want your own kitchen and a car, rather than a lobby and a bar.
01What it is
Riverside Square By YourHost Nairobi lists the things that make a room work for more than one night: a kitchen with a microwave, a refrigerator, coffee, an iron and board, towels, toiletries and a private bathroom, plus free wifi and free car parking on site. It is a 3 star property, and the list is honest about what it is. There is no restaurant, no bar and no pool on the list, so if you want to eat and drink in the building, this is not that. Non smoking rooms are available.
What that adds up to at Riverside Square By YourHost Nairobi is a self-contained base rather than a hotel with services. You shop and cook, you park your own car, and you use the place as somewhere to sleep and reset. It suits people staying several nights who want a kitchen and a parking space, and it does not suit anyone who wants a bar downstairs, a concierge or a short walk to the sights. The Biashara Street and City Market quarter is a drive away, not a stroll.
02The supplier's photographs
0314 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 this one directly if you want a kitchen and a parking space rather than hotel service. 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 Square By YourHost Nairobi?+
It is on Riverside Drive in Greater Nairobi. For scale, it is 4.1 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 52 minutes on foot in a direct line. That puts it outside the central business district itself, in a residential part of the city rather than among the office blocks.
What facilities does the property actually list?+
A kitchen with a microwave and refrigerator, coffee, an iron and board, towels, toiletries, a bathroom, non smoking rooms, free wifi and free car parking. It is a 3 star property. There is no restaurant, bar or pool listed, so plan to cook or eat out.
How do I get into the centre from Greater Nairobi?+
You are outside the centre, so you travel in. The nearest quarter this site covers is Biashara Street and City Market, 3.48 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That quarter is a daytime one, and the halls shut in the late afternoon, so go early.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability and booking are handled through app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a room while you settle your plans. The booking is confirmed on the app, and the carbon and credit terms come with it rather than being added on top.
