Cresta Bosele is a town hotel in Selebi-Phikwe, the old copper-nickel mining town in eastern Botswana. Its usefulness to travellers is geographic: it is roughly an hour from the Tuli Block, which makes it the sensible staging post for anyone approaching the Land of Giants from the south or east.
Quick facts
- Area
- Eastern Botswana
- Property type
- Hotel
- Setting
- Selebi-Phikwe, about an hour from the Tuli Block
- Nearest park or reserve
- Northern Tuli Game Reserve
Rooms at Cresta Bosele
Standard twin and double rooms at 26 square metres, with Wi-Fi, power points, safe, en-suite bathrooms, telephone, mini bar, satellite television and air conditioning.
Facilities at Cresta Bosele
A swimming pool and pool bar, plus conference facilities.
Who it suits
Travellers heading for Tuli who do not want to arrive in the dark, and business visitors to Selebi-Phikwe.
Location and access
Road access, near the central business and shopping district. Roughly one hour from the Tuli Block.
Arriving at Tuli in daylight is worth planning for
The Pont Drift crossing and the reserve roads are not places to be feeling your way after dark, and game reserves close their gates. Staging an hour out means you cross and arrive with the afternoon in hand. It is the kind of unglamorous logistics decision that makes the difference between a good first day and a wasted one.
A mining town is an honest place to spend a night
Selebi-Phikwe is not a tourist town and does not pretend to be. What it has is a working economy, functioning services, fuel and a hotel with a pool. On a long eastern route that is precisely what you want, and expecting anything else would be misreading the place.
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Plan the rest of your trip
Read our guide to the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, to Francistown, or our self-drive guidance.
