Oubangui Hotel

The Oubangui Hotel sits on Boulevard du General de Gaulle beside the Oubangui River, with rooms and a terrace looking across the water toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A long-standing Bangui landmark, it offers a riverside setting and an on-site restaurant, though recent guests describe a basic-to-mid standard with occasional water and air-conditioning interruptions (Google rating around 3.4). It is a mainstream hotel, not a gay venue. All of the security cautions that apply to the Central African Republic as a whole — a country under a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory — apply here too.