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Asylum seekers sent to Rwanda will stay in a hotel with a football pitch and bedrooms with prayer rugs if migrant flights go ahead.
Now that the Government's Rwanda Bill has passed, the Prime Minister has said 'nothing will stand in our way' of getting flights off the ground.
The House of Lords ended the deadlock last night after MPs rejected a requirement that Rwanda could not be treated as safe until the secretary of state, having consulted an independent monitoring body, made a statement to Parliament to that effect.
Migrants sent to Rwanda will be staying in £19-a-night tourist hotel Hope Hostel, a hostel in Nyabugogo, the Gasabo district of Kigali.
They will have to get past metal detetctors and bag-scanners in airport-style security to enter the hotel.
Asylum seekers sent to Rwanda will stay in a hotel with a football pitch and bedrooms with prayer rugs if migrant flights go ahead
Migrants sent to Rwanda will be staying in £19-a-night tourist hotel Hope Hostel, in Nyabugogo, the Gasabo district of Kigali
The processing tent erected next door to the Hope Hostel accommodation in Kigali, Rwanda
The rooms include mats, double beds, thick curtains and a desk
Hope Hostel (pictured), which has been getting ready to welcome mgrants from the UK
Pictured: A covid testing area inside the processing tent erected next to the Hope Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda
It will be the first place asylum seekers will stay for around three months while their claims are being processed before they are moved elsewhere.
They will be allowed to move around freely and leave the property as they wish, which is described on Tripadvisor as offering WiFi and good views of the surrounding hills.
Former Home Secretary Priti Patel made a private visit to Hope Hostel in April 2022 to see an example of what accommodation may be on offer.
The complex has 50 rooms at and can accommodate around 100 people with up to two people per room and sharing communal bathrooms.
There are plans to expand the facility by building more accommodation blocks, eventually seeing it offer 150 rooms and be able to sleep up to 300 people.
Asylum seekers are expected to be provided meals three times a day to eat in a communal dining room, with some kitchen facilities also available for those with special dietary requirements.
However, many of the other Rwandan homes initially reserved for deported UK migrants were reportedly sold off to locals in Kigali, while the Tories floundered over the controversial policy.
According to developers of the Bwiza Riverside estate, 70 per cent of the 163 homes have been taken, with 'sold' signs popping up in front of the properties.
ADHI-Rwanda said the homes had gone to 'private people who want to live in them' which means there will only be spaces for a handful of migrants if flights from Britain ever take off.
Plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda from the UK are anticipated to initially see them taken to the former tourist hostel
Privately owned, the East African nation's government is understood to be in negotiations to lease the property so asylum seekers sent from the UK can stay there temporarily while their claims are processed
The complex has 50 rooms at present and can accommodate around 100 people with up to two people per room and sharing communal bathrooms
