Car rental is available but expensive. The principal hotels offer bus service to and from Libreville Airport for international flights. Local and long distance telephone service is available 24 hours a day. French is Gabon's official language. English is not widely spoken.
Hotels can arrange translators.
The five principal hotels in Libreville are the Okoume Palace Intercontinental, the Meridien Re-ndama, the Hotel Atlantique, the Novotel Rapotchombo, and the Monts de Cristal. It has a pool, tennis and squash courts, and a fully equipped health spa with aerobics classes. There are two restaurants. Managed by the French group Meridien, this hotel is near the town center, south of the U.S. and French embassies on the main road. It has a well-situated pool on the beach side of the hotel and two restaurants.