Recommended Hotels and Lodges

Kigali

The Kigali Serena Hotel. This five star hotel (the only 5 star hotel in Kigali) is situated in Central Kigali a few miles outside the city centre the ambassadorial and commercial heart of Rwanda and the city's pre- eminent meeting place for diplomats and business people.
The accommodation comprises of 104 air-conditioned rooms with both luxury suites to deluxe rooms.
The elegant Diplomat Restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, while The Lounge Bar offers a choice of three purpose designed areas: the bar, the lounge and the terrace.
The hotel also has a gym, swimming pool and has Internet access.

Hotel Gorillas
This relatively inexpensive small three to four star hotel is only one kilometre from the commercial centre of Kigali. There are thirty-one clean and comfortable ensuite rooms with all modern facilities including a modern business centre.
Each room has a phone with direct international dialling, satellite television and hot water twenty four hours a day.

The Virungas

Mountain Gorilla's Nest
Situated at the base of the Virunga Mountains Gorillas Nest Lodge is located 2 kms west of the Kinigi Park Headquarters.
The lodge is in a lovely rural setting and ideally situated to the park headquarters for each morning's registration process. There is no electricity in Kinigi, so the lodge operates a generator.
Each public room overlooks green lawns and a semi-circle of 20 double rooms & 2 suites. The rooms all look outwards into the Eucalyptus forest, pyrethrum farms and shambas (farms) beyond.
The Lodge is well constructed, but utilitarian: with grass thatched roofs in traditional Rwandese style - not the "rustic luxury safari" style of East and Southern Africa.
Nearby is a traditional Rwandese homestead worth a visit in your leisure time or after your Gorilla trekking.

Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge
Very recently completed by Governors, Camps who also own four prestigious camps on the Masai Mara, Loldia House in Naivasha and Mufango Lodge on Lake Victoria Kenya.
The lodge, situated in the foothills of the mighty Virungas, the chain of 15,000-ft volcanoes stretching through Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, affords wonderful views of the volcanoes and the surrounding countryside.
Accommodation at Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge comprises five double cottages, two suites and one family suite. All are stone buildings with Rwandese terracotta tile roofs, and feature large sitting areas, fireplaces, stylish en-suite bathrooms finished with Venetian plaster a dressing room and a sheltered veranda. Heat exchangers in the fireplaces provide a plentiful supply of hot water. The family suite has a second bedroom with en-suite bathroom and fireplace.

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