Hôtel Président & Golf Club
Hôtel Président
A landmark hotel from the Félix Houphouët-Boigny era, with a top-floor restaurant overlooking the city and the cathedral, and beside it one of the few 18-hole golf courses in West Africa.
Hôtel Président was built in the 1970s, rises more than ten storeys and has hosted many heads of state, and it remains the city's best-known hotel. Its panoramic top-floor restaurant has wide views, and on clear days you can see the dome of the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in the distance. Next to the hotel, the Yamoussoukro Golf Club has an international-standard 18-hole course with open greens, and non-guests can pay to play or dine at the clubhouse. The facilities are somewhat dated, but they convey the grandeur of the capital dreams of that era. It sits beside the main east-side avenue.
Opening hours
Open all day (restaurants follow their own hours)
Nearby sights
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research
- Grand Mosque of Yamoussoukro
- Saint Augustine Cathedral
- Presidential Palace & Crocodile Lake
- Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
- Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny
- Abokouamékro Wildlife Reserve