Literally across the road from the Auberge La Caverne, the Dream Inn has the same great location – 10 minutes on foot to the city centre – and at the same price: 20,000RwF (£22) for a double room. We decided to stay here because it had free Wifi. As has happened with every hotel in our price range that we’ve stayed at in Uganda and Rwanda, the Wifi didn’t work, though the staff neglected to mention that when we asked before booking our room.
Our room had two 3/4 beds, en suite with cold shower and, probably best of all, DSTV, which meant I could watch Inter beat Chelsea from bed. But generally the place was a quite charmless, the breakfast pretty unpleasant (seriously greasy omelette and a half a baguette, but with only margerine to put on it) and the staff unfriendly. Overall, we preferred the Auberge.
(Continuing the football theme, underneath the motel is the Dream Inn Sportsbar, which does a decent stab of replicating those in London and elsewhere – shirts on the walls, lots of chrome, big screen, absolutely no atmosphere unless there is a game on.)
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