Uzuri Place is a 3 star apartment block on Riverside Drive, with kitchens, a pool and parking, and it sits well outside the centre. The one thing that decides it is whether you want to cook for yourself and drive in rather than stay in the quarter.
01What it is
Uzuri Place lists apartments rather than hotel rooms, and the kitchen end of the list is the substance of it: kitchen and kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, sink, coffee, washing machine. Bathrooms come with bathrobe, hairdryer, toiletries, towels, shower, WC, and some units list a jacuzzi. Air conditioning, balcony, terrace, garden, lifts, desk, sofa bed, cot, iron and board, safe, smoke detector, TV, free wifi and free car parking round it out, and the property is wheelchair accessible. It is a 3 star address, not a serviced hotel, so expect no restaurant, no bar and no room service, and treat the pool as the one shared facility the list actually names. The list is thin on the things a business traveller leans on: nothing here is a front desk you can use at any hour, and nothing suggests anyone carries your bags.
What Uzuri Place adds up to is a quiet, self contained base for someone who wants an apartment with a kitchen and a lift and does not mind being away from the middle of things. Couples, families with a cot and a sofa bed in reach, and longer stays where a washing machine matters more than a concierge will get the most from it. It does not suit anyone whose trip depends on being inside the centre on foot, on a bar downstairs, or on a hotel that handles everything for them. The address is Winchester Gardens along Riverside Drive, a calm, residential, guarded stretch on the western side of Nairobi, and it is a different proposition from the daytime quarter the halls shut in the late afternoon.
02The supplier's photographs
0336 facilities the supplier lists
and 5 more on the supplier's own record. 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 Uzuri Place direct if you want an apartment with a kitchen and a pool rather than a hotel with a bar, and check the calendar before you commit. 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 Uzuri Place?+
It is on Winchester Gardens along Riverside Drive, on the western residential side of Nairobi. It sits 4.21 km from Kenyatta Avenue at Moi Avenue, which is 53 minutes on foot in a direct line. The nearest of the ten quarters this site covers is 3.59 km away at Biashara Street and City Market.
What does the property list in the rooms?+
Apartments with a kitchen or kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, sink, coffee, and a washing machine. Bathrooms list shower, WC, towels, toiletries, bathrobe and hairdryer, with a jacuzzi in some. Air conditioning, balcony, terrace, desk, sofa bed, cot, safe and TV are also listed.
What does staying outside the centre mean day to day?+
The area is Greater Nairobi rather than the quarter itself, so plan on travelling in rather than walking out of your door into it. The centre is a daytime quarter, its halls shut in the late afternoon and its streets empty with them, and the streets there are narrow, shaded and one-family wide.
How do I check availability at Uzuri Place?+
Availability and remaining rooms are shown when you search your dates on app.impt.io. Most rooms can be cancelled free, so you can hold a booking while you sort your plans. No prices appear on this site; the booking page carries the current details.
