Maison St Benoît Kigufi

Rwanda


A good bang-for-your-buck choice, the church-run Maison St Benoît has functional rooms that are thoroughly sanitised with en suite bathrooms featuring hot showers. Nothing is fancy but it all feels very proper and immaculate, in a chilled-out setting, and the rustically beautiful lakeshore setting is hard to beat. Meals cost from RFr3500.

The choice rooms are the larger ones at the back of the complex.


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