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Owned and managed by the Nesbitt Hospitality Group, the N1 Hotels offer the best of clean, affordable accommodation. While not a holiday resort, they provide everything you need with impeccable service and a welcoming smile characteristic to Zimbabwe. The N1 Hotel Bulawayo, bought as a block of flats and transformed into the first N1 Hotel model, is located in the heart of the CBD at 114 Joshua Nkomo Street. The hotel with 24 rooms in total covering three stories has a combination of twin and double room, eight per floor. Each of these rooms, aside from the standard bed/s and en-suite bathroom with a shower option, is equipped with a bar area, TV with the basic package to fend off the boredom, chairs, kettle and complimentary tea and coffee to give you a quick boost when you need it. With a very personal touch to each room, each piece of furniture is designed by Mr Digby Nesbitt himself and crafted in the hotel’s very own workshop and only adds to the modern look of the tiled rooms.
Ideal for your business trip, backpack holiday stopover or packed vacation, the centralised manner of the N1 only adds to the convenience of your stay. Rightly named after the N1, the road that runs down the centre of Africa – a travelling road hotel. With breakfast available at an affordable rate, you are aptly prepared for the day currently with their more continental choice of the Early Bird Breakfast that includes cereal, yogurt, hot toast with butter and jam, seasonal fruit alongside juice and a choice of tea or coffee. If you lean more towards an English breakfast, the Sunrise Breakfast inclusive of scrumptious eggs made to your liking, your choice of sizzling beef or pork sausage, a ration of baked beans, grilled tomato, toast served with butter and jam and your preference between steaming tea or coffee if perfect to wake you up. If the breakfast alone is too enticing to pass up on an ordinary day, you can always walk in to join the hotel patrons.
The Bulawayo branch is the centre of operations and distribution. The Nesbitt Hospitality Group has since expanded from their one hotel in central Bulawayo to two others in the nation’s capital, Harare, and Zimbabwe’s prime travel destination, Victoria Falls. N1 Victoria Falls does have additional features beyond the model including dormitory and campsite accommodation options. N1 Bulawayo is looking forward to future developments.