Uganda:-Kampala Accomodation And Lodges ,Hotels and Guest Houses

Speke Resort and Country Lodge.
This resort is on the Lake Victoria shore at Munyoyo, about 10km from central Kampala along the Ggaba Road. An 80% price hike since the last edition of this book means that the resort no longer offers quite the same value for money but it is still difficult to beat for quality. The self contained suites are airy and spacious, with tiled floor modern wrought-iron furnishings a private balcony, lounge with DSTV fan and self catering kitchen with fridge. There’s a large swimming pool in the ground, along with a marina facing a lushly forested island, while horse riding fishing and other boat excursions are available. The restaurant serves good meals.

Speke Hotel
Recently renovated, the long-serving Speke Hotel has a central location and good facilities including several restaurants. The adjacent rock Bar is disturbingly noisy until late.

Red chillie Hideaway
Another excellent backpackers’ hostel, Red chilli lies 2.5-acre garden in the leafy suburb of Bugolobi, some 4 km east of the city centre. A god range of facilities including whitewater rafting bookings and pickup DSTv laundry service, clean ablution blocks with hot water a very lively bar and restaurant serving a good range of reasonably priced Western and local snacks and meals. Red Chilli lies about 500m from the Port Bell rd. To get there, catch any minibus-taxi to Bugolobi Lazier, Nakawa or Port Bell, disembark at Colgate Factory Junction take Kireka Road to the left, and then follow the second left for about 200m

Kampala Sheraton
Long billed as Kampala’s only 5-star hotel, this was for many years a dubious classification, but one which is rather more deserved following the completion of a much-needed facelift in 2005. Now fitted with marbled tiles and fountains, the ground floor is now a plush environment enjoying an extensive lounge, coffee shop business centre and a shopping arcade, plus the Rhino Bar, a perennial favourite with Kampala’s late-night crowd.  Sports facilities include a gym, swimming pool, squash and tennis courts. For all this, the objective remains firmly on providing an AC refuge for the international business traveler rather than any sort of vernacular experience for the discerning visitor to Africa.

Kampala Serena
It is set in newly landscaped grounds, the Nile’s sterile 1960’s 4- storey block is now unrecognizable inside and out, following a some what eclectic-but wholly effective-rebirth that comes across as something along the lines of Indiana Jones and his Temple of Doom transplanted to a Moroccan palace. Kampala Serena enjoys a convenient central location which is considerably quieter than other up market options nearby. It has an explorers bar for beers, Italian restaurant for buffet and lake restaurant for dinner. Rooms at the front of the hotel overlook the spectacular water garden.

Kampala Club
Formerly the Shangai Hotel the 10-year-oldKampala Club is recently renovated and has a convenient location almost immediately opposite the Sheraton. Free services include laundry, local telephone calls, and a substantial breakfast. Recreational and sports facilities include tennis and squash courts, swimming pool, gym, massage, sauna and squash. The attached Chinese restaurant is one of the best in town.

Hotel Africana
Situated opposite the golf course immediately west of the city centre this new and modern looking hotel offers similar facilities and standard accommodation to its competitors, but in prettier surrounds and at ore realistic price. Facilities include a vast swimming pool, health club free golf club membership. A forex bureau a bar with live music at weekends, shops and hair salons, 2 restaurants, business and internet services and 24 hour room service. The rooms are neat self contained with AC and DSTV.

Emin Pasha Hotel
It is located on leafy Nakasero hill. It proclaims its self to be ‘Kampala’s first boutique hotel’, a marketing term that is for once justifiable , as this really is the most attractive and atmospheric hotel in the city. Set in an effectively converted and expended two-storey 1930’s townhouse the hotel bristles with taste and character. Terraces, balconies and courtyards abound beside a landscape garden and swimming pool. A creation of the Uganda Safari Company, the hotel was inspired by their clients’ evident disappointment when their African safari began at one of the ubiquitous ‘international’ hotels that dominate the remainder of this section. The brasserie has a good reputation for good food, rooms containing large and comfortable beds, gorgeous antique hardwood furniture and framed artwork