Eatingout: Bloom Hotel

Put a lake nearby and you have the perfect resort motel right in the middle of Kigali Kimironko’s Bloom Motel has a wide expanse compound beautifully coloured by a clever lining of flowers right from the gate to the reception. The motel is well set apart from the normal lifestyle around Kimironko yet it is less than 30 metres between the main road leading to the prison the other side of the suburb, and connecting to main roads leading to Kibagabaga hospital, the main market and the national stadium. Sitting on the patio of the motel, the above features look so many hundreds of miles away, because while you sip a cold Amstel from the bar facing the main, the indications are quite clear that you have to a place where fun is in plenty. The wide gardens behind guestrooms are used to host parties and should a guest want to stretch with a ball in the compound, no problem according to the Manager. Bloom Motel serves fresh meals prepared in the in-house kitchen where the chef regularly comes to the crowd in front to receive special orders. There are well made fried chips and equally tasty fish brochette, but the beef brochette is not tender and the vegetable servings are very little too. The chips are also made in the shape of chain saws as is the case in many eating restaurants in the city. The rooms have a very good view; the front of the motel gives way to a virgin hill across, which gives the place a very rural outlook, the well maintained and good looking little garden with a wide collection of flowers. The back view gives a fresh looking view is large flat field with a single tree that looks isolated in the middle, the other trees are outside the compound. It is normal in the evenings seeing Kigali’s corporate wannabes that reside in nearby areas with laptops heading to the hotel. These Yuppies; (young urban working professionals) are a common feature with their lone laptops and headphones on the tables and beer bottles as company. There’s fresh chicken prepared Ala carte chicken, the man chicken serves traditional dishes as is ordered. Fish brochette costs Frw 2500 for two sticks, while a whole fish costs Frw 5000, chips will take you back Frw 1000, while beef brochette is Frw 600. The unique selling point for Bloom Hotel is their garden, which is so huge it can occupy a football field Ideal for children as their nothing to break, just well maintained low trimmed grass. Ends