Affordable Kigali Package from Nairobi | 4 Days 3 Nights
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Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar
Four days in Kigali from Nairobi: a direct morning flight, no visa to apply for, three nights in leafy Kiyovu with breakfast, a guided day through the city's history, markets and art and a walk through Nyamirambo with the women who live there, in one price.
Affordable Kigali Package from Nairobi: four days and three nights with direct return economy flights from JKIA and checked baggage on your fare. Kenyan passport holders need no visa for Rwanda, so there is no visa fee and no embassy queue. You stay three nights with breakfast at Park Inn by Radisson Kigali in Kiyovu, a quiet, green neighbourhood close to the city centre, with private airport transfers on arrival and departure.
Your days take in a guided city day with a private driver: the Kigali Genocide Memorial with an audio guide, the stalls of Kimironko Market and the studios of Inema Arts Center. You also join a walking tour of Nyamirambo, one of Kigali's oldest neighbourhoods, led by the Nyamirambo Women's Center, with a Rwandan lunch. You need a yellow fever certificate. Your planner walks you through it. One price per person sharing covers the flights, hotel, transfers and every experience listed below. One Baecation planner stays with you on WhatsApp from booking to landing home.
Kigali surprises most Kenyans who visit. The flight is shorter than the drive to Mombasa, the streets are spotless, the hills are green from end to end and the evenings are cool enough for a jacket. It is a city for walking, eating well and talking late over coffee, with a history you will want to understand before you leave.
We base you in Kiyovu on purpose. It is one of Kigali's calm, leafy neighbourhoods on the hill above the city centre, close to restaurants, galleries and the Kigali Convention Centre area. Park Inn by Radisson gives you a modern hotel with an outdoor pool and a spa at a price that leaves room for good dinners out.
The days are paced for two people on a short break. You land in the morning, so the first day is yours to settle in. One guided day takes you through the city, one morning in Nyamirambo shows you how Kigali lives. Your last day stays slow until your evening flight home.
Details
Summary information about this package
Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar
Kigali (Rwanda)
Couples
Included
Flying
For Adults only (18+)
Bed & Breakfast
Included
All year round
Costs
Kenyan Citizen
Ksh. 154700 per person sharing
Non-resident
$ 1199 per person sharing
Transport
Options: Flying
Duration and Timing
No
More than >3 Days+
About Package
More information about this package
Your hotel: Three nights at Park Inn by Radisson Kigali in Kiyovu or a comparable hotel confirmed at booking, in a Standard Room with a queen bed, with breakfast every morning.
At the hotel: Park Inn has 161 rooms and suites, an outdoor pool with a pool bar, a fitness centre and an on site spa. The Live Inn Room restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Check in is from 2pm and check out is at noon. The hotel stores your bags on your last day.
Where you are: Kiyovu sits on a hill close to the city centre. The Kigali Genocide Memorial and Inema Arts Center are each a short drive away. Kigali International Airport is about 25 minutes by car.
Direct flights: Kenya Airways and RwandAir both fly nonstop between JKIA and Kigali in about an hour and a half, with checked baggage on your fare. You land in the morning and fly home in the evening, so both travel days still give you time in the city. Kigali is one hour behind Nairobi.
A guided city day: Your driver guide takes you to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the final resting place of more than 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The visit is quiet and unhurried, with an audio guide. Many visitors need two to three hours. Afterwards you move on to Kimironko Market, where fabric sellers, tailors, basket weavers and fruit stalls fill the halls, then to Inema Arts Center, where Rwandan artists paint and sculpt in their own studios.
Nyamirambo on foot: The Nyamirambo Women's Center was founded in 2007 by women from the neighbourhood and runs walking tours led by local women. You walk through one of Kigali's oldest and liveliest neighbourhoods, past tailors, hair salons, mosques and milk bars, then sit down to a Rwandan lunch in a local home.
Before you fly: Kenyan passport holders need no visa for Rwanda. Each of you needs a passport valid for at least six months from the day you land with a blank page. You also each need a yellow fever certificate, with the vaccine given at least 10 days before you fly. Carry your return tickets, hotel vouchers and a bank card.
Full entry guide: Every entry rule, with the official links, is explained on our Kigali page at baecation.co.ke/kigali.
Rwanda's rules: Plastic bags are banned and are taken away on arrival. On the last Saturday of each month, Umuganda community work closes most services from 7am to 11am. Photographing government buildings, military sites and the police is not allowed.
Respect at the memorial: Dress smart and modest, keep your voices low and follow your guide. Avoid asking Rwandans about ethnicity or their own experience of 1994. Let the memorial tell the story.
Staying safe: Kigali is calm and easy to walk by day. Use your driver, a hotel taxi or a licensed taxi in the evening rather than moto taxis. Keep valuables out of sight. Drink bottled water, as tap water is not safe to drink.
Travel cover: Rwanda screens arrivals at Kigali airport during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Visitors who have been in Congo in the 30 days before arrival are refused entry. Travel within Rwanda continues as normal. We recommend travel insurance with medical cover and tell you straight away if official advice changes before you fly.
One planner, start to finish: Your Baecation planner checks your documents with you, sends your e tickets and vouchers before you fly and stays reachable on WhatsApp throughout. If a flight moves or a day needs to change, you message one person instead of four companies.
Package Itinerary
The package itinerary is as follows
Affordable Kigali Package Itinerary with Baecation Adventures from Nairobi
Kenya Airways usually leaves JKIA at 07:30 and lands in Kigali at about 08:00 local time, as Kigali is one hour behind Nairobi. Flights home leave Kigali in the evening, with RwandAir usually at about 17:30 and Kenya Airways at about 20:00 on set days, landing at JKIA the same night. Schedules change from late October and late March, so your planner confirms the exact flights on your written quote before you pay. On the last Saturday of each month, Umuganda community work closes most services and empties the roads from 7am to 11am, so your planner moves transfers and tours around it. The Kigali Genocide Memorial is open daily from 9am to 5pm with last entry at 4pm. It closes on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and usually on the morning of 7 April. Gallery and market hours vary, so your planner confirms them for your dates. From 7 April Rwanda marks Kwibuka, the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. During the first week the city is quiet, public music and entertainment pause and your planner adjusts the plan with care. April is usually the wettest month, with afternoon showers.
Day 1: Nairobi to Kigali
Morning: Documents in One Folder Put your passports, yellow fever cards, printed return e tickets, hotel vouchers and a bank card in one folder for your hand luggage. Pack nothing in plastic bags. Your flight leaves JKIA early and lands in Kigali after about an hour and a half in the air. Hand your yellow fever cards to the health officers with your passports, then meet your driver for the drive of about 25 minutes to Kiyovu.
Afternoon: Settling In Leave your bags at the hotel and have a long lunch nearby. Your room is ready from 2pm. Check in and spend the afternoon by the pool.
Evening: A First Dinner in Kigali Take a short ride to one of the restaurants around Kiyovu or the Kigali Convention Centre area. Try goat brochettes and grilled tilapia. Notice how cool the evening air feels on the hills.
Overnight: Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar Meals: None included
Day 2: The City Day
Morning: The Kigali Genocide Memorial Your driver guide collects you after breakfast for the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi. Take the audio guide through the exhibitions and the memorial gardens at your own pace. It is a place of remembrance, so dress modestly and give yourselves time.
Afternoon: Kimironko Market and Inema Arts Center After lunch, wander the halls of Kimironko Market among stacks of bright fabric, woven baskets and fruit stalls. Pick a print together and ask a tailor about matching outfits. Then visit Inema Arts Center and meet the artists in their studios.
Evening: Your Evening Your driver brings you back to the hotel. Choose your own dinner tonight, from a hotel table by the pool to a restaurant with a view over the city lights.
Overnight: Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar Meals: Breakfast
Day 3: Nyamirambo
Morning: Walking with the Women of Nyamirambo After breakfast, meet your guide at the Nyamirambo Women's Center. Walk the streets of one of Kigali's oldest neighbourhoods, stopping at tailors, a hair salon, a milk bar and the local market. Hear how the centre began.
Afternoon: Lunch in a Local Home Sit down to a Rwandan lunch in a home in Nyamirambo, then browse the centre's shop for handmade bags and fabrics. Head back to the hotel for a slow afternoon by the pool or add the coffee masterclass from the list below.
Evening: The Last Night Dress up a little for your last dinner in Kigali. Ask your planner about a table with a view over the hills.
Overnight: Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Day 4: Kigali to Nairobi
Morning: One Last Swim Take your time over breakfast and a last swim. Check out at noon and leave your bags with the hotel.
Afternoon: Last Gifts Have lunch nearby and pick up coffee, baskets or fabric to take home. Your driver collects you in the afternoon for the airport.
Evening: Flying Home Your flight leaves Kigali in the evening and lands at JKIA the same night, with three nights of Kigali behind you.
Meals: Breakfast
Add Ons
Romantic Touches: (Small extras that make the trip yours, priced as shown and added to your package)
Specialty Coffee Masterclass at Question Coffee in Kigali, about two hours: pick coffee cherries in the garden, taste Rwandan coffees side by side and blend your own coffee to take home: from USD 145 (KES 18,700) per couple
Extra night at Park Inn by Radisson Kigali with breakfast: from USD 230 (KES 29,700) per couple
Upgrade Your Stay: (Priced per couple for all three nights on top of the package price)
A step up in the city centre: Kigali Serena Hotel on KN 3 Avenue, with an 18 metre landscaped pool and Maisha Spa with a sauna and steam room: from USD 300 (KES 38,700)
+ Inclusions
Direct return economy flights between JKIA and Kigali, with the checked baggage allowance on your fare
Three nights at Park Inn by Radisson Kigali or similar, in a Standard Room sharing a queen bed
Daily breakfast
Private airport transfers on arrival and departure
A guided city day with a private car and driver guide: the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Kimironko Market and Inema Arts Center
An audio guide each at the Kigali Genocide Memorial
A walking tour of Nyamirambo with the Nyamirambo Women's Center, with a Rwandan lunch
Hotel VAT and Rwanda's tourism tax
Pre departure briefing on your passports, return tickets, yellow fever certificates, what you can and cannot bring into Rwanda, Umuganda, dress and etiquette at the memorial and local rules
Your Baecation planner on WhatsApp before and throughout the trip
- Exclusions
Lunches and dinners other than the Nyamirambo lunch
Drinks
Yellow fever vaccination and certificate
Travel insurance, which we strongly recommend
Taxi fares outside the included transfers and city day
Donations at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which are welcome
Spa treatments
Tailoring, crafts and shopping
Optional activities and the add ons listed below
Extra baggage beyond the allowance on your fare
Early check in or late check out
Tips and gratuities
Personal spending
What To Carry
Passports valid for at least six months from the day you land, each with a blank page
Printed return e tickets and hotel vouchers
Your yellow fever certificates, as Rwanda requires them from travellers arriving from Kenya. The vaccine must be given at least 10 days before you fly. Travellers without a certificate are vaccinated on arrival at their own cost. A certificate under 10 days old means quarantine until it becomes valid
A bank card and some Rwandan francs for markets, taxis and tips
Smart, modest clothes for the memorial, with shoulders and knees covered
Comfortable walking shoes for the hills of Kigali and the Nyamirambo walk
A light jacket or jumper for the cool evenings
A compact umbrella for afternoon showers
Swimwear for the hotel pool
Sunscreen and insect repellent
Your usual plugs plus an adapter, as Rwanda uses round two pin sockets
Reusable fabric bags or pouches for toiletries and shopping
Personal medication in its original packaging with your prescriptions
No plastic bags at all, shopping and duty free bags included, as they are confiscated on arrival. Vapes and e cigarettes are banned in Rwanda, even for your own use. They are confiscated with a possible fine. Illegal drugs, cannabis included, carry long prison sentences, so never carry anything packed by someone else. Declare any drone when you land
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