A four star three bedroom apartment on Riverside West Lane, with a kitchen, a washing machine, a pool and free parking. The deciding detail is the address: you are in a quiet residential pocket of Greater Nairobi, not in the centre, so this suits people who want room and a car, and not people who want to step out into the quarter.
01What it is
Stylish 3 Bedroomed City Apartment is a four star self-contained flat, not a hotel room, and the facility list reads like a household inventory: kitchen with oven, microwave and refrigerator, washing machine, iron and board, towels, bathroom and WC, plus cleaning and laundry service if you would rather not do it yourself. There is free wifi, a desk, a TV, a fan, non smoking rooms and lifts, so the working basics are covered. Outside there is a balcony and a garden, and a swimming pool. Free car parking is listed. The thin part is the absence of a restaurant, a bar or any front desk hospitality beyond cleaning and laundry: you eat in or go out, and the listing gives you no dining room to fall back on.
What that adds up to at Stylish 3 Bedroomed City Apartment is a base for a group or a family that wants three bedrooms and its own kitchen rather than three hotel keys, and is content to drive or be driven everywhere. The pool, the garden and the parking are the real offers; the apartment is somewhere you return to at the end of a day rather than somewhere the day happens. It suits self-catering groups, longer stays, and anyone who values quiet over proximity. It does not suit a solo visitor who wants the centre on foot, or anyone who wants a bar and a meal downstairs.
02The supplier's photographs
0326 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 if you want a whole apartment rather than a room, and book it early in the season when families and work groups take the three bedroom flats first. 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 the apartment?+
It is on Riverside West Lane, on the eighth floor, in Riverside West, part of Greater Nairobi rather than the central business district itself. It sits 4.06 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 51 minutes on foot in a direct line, so treat it as a residential base with the centre a short drive away.
What does the apartment actually have in it?+
Three bedrooms, a full kitchen with oven, microwave and refrigerator, a washing machine, iron and board, towels, a desk, a TV and a fan, with free wifi and lifts. Outside there is a balcony, a garden and a swimming pool, and free car parking is listed. Cleaning and laundry service are available.
Is it near the shops and market?+
Biashara Street and City Market are 3.44 km from Biashara Street and City Market, which is the nearest of the ten quarters this site covers. That is the closest of the central quarters, not a walk from the door, so plan on a vehicle for shopping, meetings and meals out rather than strolling into the market.
How do I check availability and book?+
Availability is checked through app.impt.io, where you can see what is open for your dates and confirm. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, so you are not locked in at the point of booking. Check the apartment against your dates before you settle on anything else in Greater Nairobi.
