The Retreat by Heaven
CEDARBERG RATING
Luxury
Overview
The Retreat is a 12-room luxury boutique hotel located on a tree-lined street close to the centre of Kigali. Plus it's only 20 minutes from the airport. It is Kigali’s luxury eco-friendly resort and features solar electricity, organic toiletries, locally-crafted furniture from a Tanzanian sustainable teak farm. Other welcome facilities include a yoga and meditation room, spa, large heated saltwater swimming pool with Jacuzzi as well as an open-air fitness centre.
There are 3 Deluxe rooms and 9 Superior suites, all decorated in a simple yet warm contemporary style. Each has bamboo wood floors and sustainable teak furniture. The deluxe bedrooms (40 m²) have a sitting are, furnished patio outside and a stylish bathroom with rainfall shower. The Superior suites (60 m²) are larger with a furnished front balcony as well as a private back deck with outside shower. The luxurious bathroom has indoor rain shower and double vanity. (One suite only also has a bath.)
All rooms feature air-conditioning, plasma TV, safe, desk with phone, complimentary wifi, mini-bar, tea & coffee making facilities, luxury linen and pillow menu. They are also wheelchair accessible.
Dining at the Retreat
Here you have a choice of 2 restaurants, one on site and a sister restaurant next door. Fusion Restaurant, with its Swahili-inspired pool bar, offers delicious farm-to-table international cuisine. Fusion takes its culinary traditions from Italy, Mauritius and Morocco, and makes them its own. From here you can enjoy a stunning vista over the city. Next door is Heaven, one of Kigali’s top restaurants, which is reached through the Retreat’s “Stairway to Heaven”! It focuses on innovative modern Rwandan & pan-African cuisine using the freshest of local ingredients.
Interesting Half & Full day Tours
The Retreat also offers innovative, curated cultural experiences and activities in and around Kigali. These include a morning city tour, fashion tour, art & culture tour, local life walking tour, culinary tour and even a coffee masterclass tour. Plus full day tours range from a visit to Nyamata genocide side with a reconciliation experience, rural life tour and coffee farm tour.
At A Glance
Good Food & Wine
Swimming pool
Private Plunge Pool
Restaurants
Spa
Wifi on premises
In Pictures
The Retreat by Heaven on the map
Rooms
Deluxe King Room
Room size 40 m²
This room features:
1 King bed
Furnished patio
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Plasma TV with premium channels
Food & Drink - Refrigerator, minibar, coffee/tea maker, complimentary unlimited purified water and 24-hour room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Organic UK Naturalmat mattress, British linens, a duvet, a pillow menu, and turndown service
Bathroom - Private bathroom, rainfall showerhead, organic amenities (shampoo, conditioner, body lotion), single Duravit sink, teak wood vanity
Practical - Safe, desk, and phone, wheelchair accessible
Comfort - Air conditioning and daily housekeeping
Accessibility - Wheelchair accessible
Adjoining - 2 rooms adjoining (beds cannot be setup as Twin)
Non-Smoking
Superior King Suite
Room size 60 m²
This room features:
1 King Bed (Emperor King size - 2 meter x 2 meter)
(4 rooms can be configured as Twin)
Furnished front balcony & private back deck
Layout - Separate sitting area
Internet - Free WiFi
Entertainment - Plasma TV with premium channels
Food & Drink - Refrigerator, minibar, coffee/tea maker, complimentary unlimited purified water and 24-hour room service
Sleep - Pillowtop bed, Organic UK Naturalmat mattresses, British linens, a duvet, a pillow menu, and turndown service
Bathroom - Private bathroom with indoor and outdoor rain showers, organic amenities (shampoos, conditioner, body lotion), double Duravit sink, teak wood vanity
(2 rooms have a bathtub and showers)
Practical - Safe, desk, and phone
Comfort - Air conditioning and daily housekeeping
Non-Smoking
Luxury Pool Villa
In summer of 2021, we will open 8 brand new luxurious villas at The Retreat, each featuring a private saltwater heated plunge pool, and bedrooms with full living areas and a total of nearly 120 square meters of indoor and outdoor private living space.
The Retreat in Kigali – staff review
The Retreat is probably my first choice in terms of Kigali Hotels. As it has a little bit more character and life compared to the larger branded hotels such as the Serena or Marriott. It offers good-sized contemporary rooms with a minimalist feel to them. In the Superior rooms, there’s a lovely stylish bathroom with an indoor shower which leads out into the outdoor shower. This in turn leads out to a small courtyard garden with comfy chairs.
