Place to stay · Mogoditshane
Tlotlo Hotel & Conference Center
Citizen-owned three-star hotel at the end of Block 5 in Gaborone, with 84 rooms, three pools, a 1,000-seat hall and its own nightspot.
Tlotlo is a three-star hotel and conference centre at the end of Block 5 in Gaborone, on the Mogoditshane side of the city. It is wholly citizen owned. The main business is conferences and weddings, so for a visitor it is a mid-range bed away from the centre.
What to expect
There are 84 rooms in three types. Standard rooms have a queen bed, twin rooms two singles and executive rooms a king, and breakfast is included in all of them. The hotel has three swimming pools, a gym and a hair and beauty parlour.
For food there is an 80-seat à la carte restaurant that leans on traditional dishes, and a buffet restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Room service runs all day. The pool bar is open daily and runs happy hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
The conference side is large for a hotel this size: a hall that seats 1,000 (550 set out for a banquet), a 20-seat boardroom and a set of smaller rooms with built-in screens and projectors.
Practical details
- Phone: +267 393 5020. Mobile +267 71 234 359, WhatsApp +267 73 156 071. Email reservations@tlotlohotel.co.bw.
- Address: Plot 11683, end of Block 5, Gaborone.
- Wifi reaches the conference rooms.
Good to know
The hotel has its own nightspot, The Voltage, with a stage, VIP rooms and room for 384 people. It opens from 8pm on Thursdays to Sundays and on public holidays, and is given over to corporate events earlier in the week. That is handy if you want a night out without a taxi, and worth knowing if you want quiet: ask for a room on the far side from it at weekends, and check whether a wedding is booked into the hall.
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A big fish in a small pond moves to Block 5
“A big fish in a small pond.” That was how Antonia Moatshe described her own business to Mmegi in September 2012, a few days before she swapped it for something much larger. For ten years Tlotlo had been a conference centre in Phase 2 and nothing else, with space for about 300 people and a staff of 25. The new building at the end of Block 5, on the Gabane road out through Mogoditshane, had 84 bedrooms and a hall with a thousand seats.
One owner, from Bokaa
The whole thing belonged to one person. The Sunday Standard introduced Moatshe that month as “a young lady” from Bokaa, a Kgatleng village about 20 km south-west of Mochudi, beside the dam of the same name. Mmegi put the cost of the build at about 45 million pula, with the money coming from CEDA, the state lender to citizen businesses, and further help from the Local Enterprise Authority. The payroll doubled to 50.
It opened unfinished. Only 44 rooms were ready, with the other 40 still being built. Moatshe told Mmegi she expected a five-star grading, and told the Sunday Standard she wanted the most sought after hotel and conference centre in Botswana. The grading that came was three, which is what the hotel calls itself today. I would not hold that against it. A thousand seats is a lot of hall for a three-star hotel, and it explains who has been hiring it since.
The night football changed hands
The hall’s best known evening came in August 2016, when the Botswana Football Association held its election there. The vote ran so long that it was late at night before the delegates left, as Mmegi’s Mqondisi Dube recalled five years afterwards. Maclean Letshwiti had beaten the sitting president, Tebogo Sebego, in a close contest, and Dube counted the businessman Nicholas Zakhem as a key man in getting him there. By 2021 the two had fallen out, and Zakhem was saying Letshwiti should be recalled.
Football kept coming back. In August 2018 the association returned for a general assembly with two sets of audited accounts to present, because none had been ready the year before, and its election rules to mend. Ian Khama, a few months out of the presidency and the association’s patron, was booked to open it, the first time he had done so.
Most weeks are quieter than that. The tourism association’s listing says the trade is mainly government conferences, visiting delegations and business travellers, so expect lanyards at breakfast, not safari hats.
The road outside the gate
One thing the hotel’s own pages leave out. In October 2021 the commander of Gaborone West police, Superintendent Knight Moalosi, told Mmegi that groups of men were waiting at the roadside, at junctions and at traffic lights in his area to rob motorists of their valuables. He had 45 cases of cars broken into since January, and the first place he named was the Block 5 road past Tlotlo. That report is five years old and I have found nothing newer, but the habit it teaches costs nothing: bags and phones in the boot before you set off, not on the passenger seat, and windows up at the lights.