Affordable Kigali Couple Getaway from Nairobi | 4 Days 3 Nights
Couple Packages
Getaways
Kigali Serena Hotel
Four slow days in Kigali for two: a direct morning flight, three nights at Kigali Serena Hotel with its pool in the gardens, a coffee masterclass, an afternoon of art and markets and dinner with a view over the city, in one price.
Affordable Kigali Couple Getaway 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 Kigali Serena Hotel in the centre of the city, with private airport transfers on arrival and departure.
Your days include a specialty coffee masterclass at Question Coffee, an afternoon with a private driver guide at Kimironko Market and Inema Arts Center and a dinner for two at Heaven Restaurant in Kiyovu, looking out over Kigali. 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.
Some getaways are about doing as much as possible. This one is about doing a few good things together and having time left over for each other. Kigali suits that well. It is an hour and a half from Nairobi, calm, green and clean, with cool evenings and a coffee culture that rewards slow mornings.
We base you at Kigali Serena Hotel on purpose. Its large pool sits in the middle of tropical gardens with the rooms rising around it, so the hours between plans feel like part of the holiday. You are close to the city centre and a short drive from everything on your itinerary.
The plan stays light. One morning learning what makes Rwandan coffee special, one afternoon among the fabric stalls and art studios, one evening dressed up for dinner above the city lights. Everything else is yours: the pool, a long lunch, a nap or one of the extras below if you are marking a birthday, an anniversary or a question you have been waiting to ask.
Details
Summary information about this package
Kigali Serena Hotel
Kigali (Rwanda)
Couples
Included
Flying
For Adults only (18+)
Bed & Breakfast
Included
All year round
Costs
Kenyan Citizen
Ksh. 193400 per person sharing
Non-resident
$ 1499 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 Kigali Serena Hotel on KN 3 Avenue or a comparable hotel confirmed at booking, in a double room with breakfast every morning.
At the hotel: Kigali Serena has 148 rooms around a large outdoor pool set in tropical gardens, two restaurants, a lounge and Maisha Spa. Check in is from 2pm and check out is at noon. The hotel stores your bags on your last day.
The coffee masterclass: At Question Coffee you spend about two hours with the baristas: picking coffee cherries in the garden, tasting Rwandan coffees side by side and blending your own coffee to take home.
Art and markets: Your driver guide takes you 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.
Dinner with a view: On your last night you have dinner for two at Heaven Restaurant, part of Heaven Boutique Hotel in Kiyovu, which looks out over Kigali. Your dinner covers a starter, main course and dessert each with a soft drink.
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.
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 voucher 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.
Staying safe: Kigali is calm and easy to walk by day. Use 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 voucher before you fly, sets up any occasion you add 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 Couple Getaway 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 plans around it. Question Coffee, gallery and market hours vary, so your planner confirms them for your dates and swaps days if needed. This getaway is not sold from 7 to 13 April, the first week of Kwibuka, the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, when the city is quiet and public music and entertainment pause. 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 voucher and a bank card in one folder for your hand luggage. Pack nothing in plastic bags. Your flight 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 short drive to the hotel.
Afternoon: Into the Gardens Leave your bags at the hotel and have a long lunch. Your room is ready from 2pm. Check in and spend the rest of the afternoon by the pool.
Evening: A First Dinner in Kigali Take a short ride to one of the restaurants in Kiyovu or Kimihurura. Try goat brochettes and grilled tilapia. Notice how cool the evening air feels on the hills.
Overnight: Kigali Serena Hotel or similar Meals: None included
Day 2: Coffee, Art and Markets
Morning: Coffee Masterclass After breakfast, a taxi takes you to Question Coffee for your masterclass. Pick coffee cherries in the garden, taste Rwandan coffees side by side and blend a coffee of your own to take home.
Afternoon: Kimironko Market and Inema Arts Center After lunch, your driver guide collects you and takes you to Kimironko Market to wander 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 table by the pool to a restaurant across town.
Overnight: Kigali Serena Hotel or similar Meals: Breakfast
Day 3: A Day for the Two of You
Morning: Nowhere to Be Sleep in, take a late breakfast and let the day start slowly by the pool.
Afternoon: Your Choice Spend the afternoon in the gardens, book a massage from the list below or take a hotel taxi to the city centre for a coffee and a walk.
Evening: Dinner with a View Dress up for dinner for two at Heaven Restaurant in Kiyovu, with Kigali spread out across the hills below you.
Overnight: Kigali Serena Hotel or similar Meals: Breakfast and dinner
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 your own coffee blend in your bag.
Meals: Breakfast
Add Ons
Make It an Occasion: (Choose the moment you are celebrating, priced per couple and added to your getaway)
Anniversary: a massage each at Maisha Spa at Kigali Serena Hotel on your anniversary afternoon, about one hour: from USD 175 (KES 22,600)
Birthday: a celebration cake from a Kigali bakery delivered to the hotel on the day, with a handwritten card: from USD 30 (KES 3,900)
Proposal: your planner asks Heaven Restaurant for a quiet table on your dinner night and arranges for the ring to arrive with your dessert: included at no extra cost
Surprise: secret planning with the partner who books, with trip details kept hidden until the airport: included at no extra cost
Romantic Touches: (Small extras that make the trip yours, priced as shown and added to your package)
Nyamirambo walking tour with the women of the Nyamirambo Women's Center, with a Rwandan lunch in a local home, on your Day 3, with a taxi there and back: from USD 105 (KES 13,500) per couple
Extra night at Kigali Serena Hotel with breakfast: from USD 400 (KES 51,600) per couple
Upgrade Your Stay: (Priced per couple on top of the package price)
A room above the pool: a Deluxe Room with a balcony overlooking the pool for all three nights: from USD 175 (KES 22,600)
+ Inclusions
Direct return economy flights between JKIA and Kigali, with the checked baggage allowance on your fare
Three nights at Kigali Serena Hotel or similar, in a double room with breakfast
Private airport transfers on arrival and departure
A specialty coffee masterclass at Question Coffee, about two hours, with transport from your hotel
An afternoon with a private car and driver guide at Kimironko Market and Inema Arts Center
Dinner for two at Heaven Restaurant in Kiyovu, with a starter, main course, dessert and a soft drink each
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 and local rules
Your Baecation planner on WhatsApp before and throughout the trip
- Exclusions
Lunches and dinners other than your dinner at Heaven Restaurant
Alcohol at dinner and drinks at the hotel
Yellow fever vaccination and certificate
Travel insurance, which we strongly recommend
Taxi fares to and from dinner and outside the included transfers and tours
Spa treatments
Tailoring, crafts and shopping
Occasion extras, 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 your hotel voucher
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
Comfortable walking shoes for the hills of Kigali
One dressy outfit each for your dinner at Heaven Restaurant
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
Book This Package
Reach out:
For enquiries or bookings, write to [email protected]. We’ll revert within 20 minutes during business hours.