Kicukiro · Open 24 hours, 7 days a week
Kigali Paramount Hotel. Elevating hospitality, redefining excellence.
An upscale hotel in Kicukiro, part of the Mount Kigali University ecosystem. Guests enjoy luxury rooms, rooftop views and Rwandan flavours, and our hospitality students learn their craft in real operations.
42
Guest rooms
5
room and suite types
5
restaurants and lounges
3
meeting and event venues
Junior Suite
King-size bed
Separate seating area
Kitchenette
Jacuzzi
Penthouse
Two ensuite deluxe bedrooms
3 balconies
2 jacuzzis
Executive office
Kitchenette
Large dining area
Rain shower
Deluxe Room
King-size or twin beds
Work desk
Ergonomic chair
Jacuzzi
Superior Room
King-size bed
Seating area
Skyline views
Jacuzzi
Deluxe Family Room
King-size bed plus adjoining twin room
Rwandan art décor
Jacuzzi
Dine & unwind
Rwandan flavours, rooftop views
From fine dining to poolside evenings and signature cocktails, there’s a space for every mood.
Inzozi Restaurant
Fine dining and table service with authentic Rwandan flavours.
Maarifa Restaurant
The hotel’s second restaurant, serving guests and visitors.
Ijuru Rooftop Lounge
A 360-degree view of Kigali. No booking needed.
Muhazi Pool Lounge
Overlooks the swimming pool. Unwind, socialise and catch the football.
Main Lounge
Signature cocktails and mocktails in the heart of the hotel.
Spa & wellness
Swimming pool, pool terraces and spa and wellness services.
Meet & celebrate
From boardrooms to ballrooms
Business meetings, conferences, graduations, corporate awards, weddings and private parties, all supported by our events team and MKU hospitality students.
Eat & drink
- Inzozi restaurant: fine dining and table service
- Coffee shop with barista service and daily baking
- Muhazi and Ijuru lounges
Meet & celebrate
- Inzovu Conference Centre
- Mount Kigali Hall
- Ballroom for weddings, awards and graduations
Explore Rwanda
Guest experience staff plan itineraries and guided visits to Kigali City, Inema Arts Centre, Kimironko Market and Rwanda’s national parks.
Explore Rwanda
Tours from your doorstep
Our guest experience team arranges half-day and full-day trips and safaris.
Kigali City
Kimironko Market
Inema Arts Center
Nyamirambo Women’s Center
National parks & wildlife
Study hospitality at MKU
A living laboratory for future hoteliers
Because the hotel takes real bookings, students of the School of Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management train in live operations, not mock set-ups. They rotate through front office, housekeeping, kitchen, food and beverage and events, and graduate with verifiable work hours and references from practising hoteliers.
On campus, the training facility includes a demonstration kitchen with individual stoves, a training restaurant, practice guest rooms and an executive front desk.
From classroom to career in five steps
1
Lecture rooms
Theory
2
Training facility
Technique in the demo kitchen and practice rooms
3
Hotel rotation
Supervised work across hotel departments
4
Live events
Conferences and functions at Inzovu
5
Industry attachment
External placement before graduation
Programmes that train here
BSc Hospitality Management
BSc Events Management
BSc Travel & Tourism Management
Advanced Diploma in Culinary Arts
MSc Hospitality Management
MSc Tourism Management
Our story
2018
Training facility opens
MKU unveils its hospitality training facility, with Eng. Aimable Rutagarama of the Rwanda Tourism Chamber as chief guest.
2023
Ground-breaking
Ground-breaking for the Kigali Paramount Hotel development within the MKU compound, next to Royal FM.
Today
Welcoming guests
Open 24/7 for stays, dining and events, and training the next generation of hoteliers.
Get in touch
Stays, dining & events
Kigali Paramount Hotel
Reservations: +250 794 414 105
Information desk: +250 794 425 219
reservation@kigaliparamounthotel.com
Studying & training
Mount Kigali University
A living laboratory
OUR STUDENTS LEARN HOSPITALITY IN
a hotel that takes real bookings
Kigali Paramount Hotel is a four-star commercial property in Gatenga - Kicukiro, and the working classroom of Mount Kigali University's School of Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management.
42
Guest rooms
6
DEGREE PROGRAMMES SERVED
5
EVENT VENUES
4
DINING OUTLETS
A training hotel teaches procedure.
Mount Kigali University owns a hotel instead. Guests may arrive at different times, Conferences overrun, A wedding party of two hundred arrives in the rain. Students are on the floor when it happens, supervised by hoteliers who have handled it before, and that is where service judgement is actually built.
The university runs two training sites, not one: a dedicated facility on campus where technique is learned, and the hotel itself where it is performed.
From lecture room to industry, in five stages
01
Lecture rooms, Kicukiro
Theory first
Food science, rooms-division systems, tourism economics, costing and service principles. Students learn why a standard exists before being asked to hold it.
02
Training facility
Technique, rehearsed
A demonstration kitchen with individual stoves, so every student cooks rather than watches. Plus a training restaurant, practice guest rooms and an executive front desk.
03
Kigali Paramount Hotel
Supervised rotation
Students rotate through front office, housekeeping, kitchen, food and beverage service and the events team, working to commercial four-star standards.
04
Conference centre and ballroom
Live events at full scale
Conferences, graduations, corporate awards and weddings run year-round. Students work them end to end: run sheets, set-ups, service, teardown.
Beyond the university
Employers are the ones watching now.
05
Industry and graduation
External attachment
Placements with hospitality and tourism establishments beyond the university, closing with documented shifts in a commercial property and references from practising hoteliers.
From lecture room to industry, in five stages
Rooms Division
Check-in and check-out, reservations, concierge, guest recovery, and the daily turnaround of 42 rooms.
BSc Hospitality Mgmt
Kitchen
Service in the Inzozi kitchen, daily baking for the coffee shop, and banquet production at volume.
Adv. Dip. Culinary Arts
Food & Beverage
Table service at Inzozi, barista work in the coffee shop, mixology at the Muhazi and Ijuru lounges.
BSc Hospitality Mgmt
Events & Banqueting
Set-ups and run sheets across the Inzovu Conference Centre, Mount Kigali Hall and the ballroom.
BSc Events Mgmt
Guest Experience
Itineraries and guiding for Kigali City, Inema Arts Centre, Kimironko market and Rwanda's parks.
BSc Travel & Tourism
Revenue & Operations
Occupancy and rate data, guest satisfaction measurement, cost control, a live case site for dissertations.
MSc Hospitality / Tourism
Evidence, not just a transcript
Verifiable shifts
Hours worked in a commercial four-star property, not a classroom exercise, the first thing a regional employer asks to see.
Industry references
Supervision by practising hoteliers who can speak to how a student performed under real service pressure.
Full-cycle exposure
Front office through kitchen to events, so graduates understand how departments depend on one another.
A regional market
Training pitched at East and Central African hospitality standards, where the sector is among Rwanda’s leading foreign-exchange earners.
Getting involved
Presenting and production
Students interested in on-air or studio production work can register their interest through the School of Computing, Informatics and Media Studies.
Newsroom and reporting
Journalism students can follow the station’s news desk at news.royalfm.rw to see how daily stories are sourced, written and aired.
Campus coverage
University events, research and student achievement are pitched to the station through the MKU communications office.
Presenting and production
Students interested in on-air or studio production work can register their interest through the School of Computing, Informatics and Media Studies.
Newsroom and reporting
Journalism students can follow the station’s news desk at news.royalfm.rw to see how daily stories are sourced, written and aired.
Campus coverage
University events, research and student achievement are pitched to the station through the MKU communications office.
Kigali Paramount Hotel will be a regional training centre of excellence for the school of hospitality and tourism of Mount Kenya University (MKU) Rwanda which was fully accredited by the Rwandan Government and will soon be rebranded to Mount Kigali University.
The Kigali Paramount Hotel is modeled after Kenya’s Utalii College and is expected to operate under four (4) star rating. It will be one of its kind in the country and will play a big role in the training of manpower in the sector, one of Rwanda’s top exchange earners.
The hotel is set to offer a variety of services and amenities including conference & workshop facilities, concierge services, fine dining, swimming pool & jacuzzi, a high class fitness centre, limousine services and an array of special suites.
On March 2nd 2018, Eng. Aimable Rutagarama of the Rwanda Tourism Chamber visited MKUR. He was the chief guest during the unveiling of the university’s dedicated, state-of-the-art hospitality training facility. The facility consists of a restaurant, a demonstration kitchen with individual stoves, fully furnished guest rooms, executive front desk and spacious lecture rooms.
Benson Abuto, head of MKUR’s Hospitality and Tourism Department, sees the facility playing a key role in training personnel for establishments in East and Central Africa. “I see our department, backed by the hotel, performing a similar role as Kenya Utalii College: Training for the region,” he says
Construction of Kigali Paramount Hotel within the MKUR compound in Kagarama, Kicukiro District. In a way the university has fostered the original idea by Nikobasanzwe Gerald, the restaurant owner who sold the land onto which the institution now sits on.
