If you hope to arrange a Uganda Safari on your next holiday, here are some of the breathtaking safari lodges and boutique hotels to include on your bucket list for accommodation facilities.
Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp. A magnificent camp located just on a steep hillside within Bwindi. The camp is well designed with high quality facilities along with a breath-taking bathtub that overlooks the rainforest.
Indulge in the extremely large tents with wooden deck for those interested in relaxing or getting a private experience without interference. Make a choice of a drink in their well-stocked bar with a well-designed dinner. Enjoy both local and international different parts of the world.
There are 8 private tented cottages around Sanctuary camp, with two more which were opened in 2020. Each cottage sits on a raised wooden platform. Each cottage as a viewing deck, two queen size beds, and an en-suite bathroom.
You will wake up early to start your days adventuring with freshly cleaned and dried boots and clothes ready and waiting for you, along with a fresh coffee and the crisp jungle air.
Crater Safari Lodge is situated in a prime location on a hill overlooking the second largest crater lake in Uganda. The views from the lodge are breathtaking, and the rooms (deluxe chalets or standard cabanas) either have a full or partial view of the crater lake below.
The lodge comprises of nine ultra-luxurious double/twin cottages and two larger cottages each with two rooms to sleep up to four.
These family cottages are ideal for larger groups or families. All the cottages have en-suite bathrooms with hot and cold running water as well as solar lighting, internet access, individually designed furniture and stunning scenery around Lake Nyinabulitwa.
Amenities at the lodge include a restaurant, bar, lounge, crafts shop, mobile spa facility and campfire area overlooking the Crater Lake.
Mount Gahinga Lodge offers eight guest bandas, all with stone walls and a papyrus roof. Each is named after a Virunga volcano! Two are deluxe rooms, four bandas contain a double bed, and two have twin beds.
Room features include bedside tables and lighting, a chunky storage chest, and a cosy stone fireplace. The well-appointed en-suite facilities comprise flush toilet, twin washbasins, and shower with hot and cold running water. Every banda also benefits from a lovely private veranda.
This space extends into a comfy sun room, which boasts amazing views of the volcanoes and surrounding landscape! Guests can also marvel at the scenery from Mount Gahinga’s terrace. Wi-Fi is available throughout the lodge, but it can be unreliable.
Mihingo Lodge offers 12 tented rooms, positioned in a variety of locations across the site. Some are high up on the kopje, others are deep within the forest, and others still are close to the waterhole. All are authentic in their design, not least because they either let in or are very much inspired by the natural world around them.
The kopje rooms contain rocks and stones, while the forest rooms use wood from local trees. All rooms are individually furnished, and common features include comfy beds, mosquito nets, solar-powered lighting, campaign chairs, storage space, and a lovely private veranda. En-suite facilities typically comprise flush toilet, washbasin, and shower with hot and cold running water.
Join the relaxing areas including a lounge with sumptuous sofas within a newly built tower, where the views are breathtakingly good. You can sit back with a drink and get to know your fellow travellers in the lodge’s bar. The bar has a good selection of reading material too which can keep you engaged in your free time.
Apoka Safari Lodge offers 10 spacious rooms, each with two queen size beds, a private en-suite bathroom, private veranda, and a large outdoor stone bathroom that’s the perfect spot to relax and soak up the views after a long day’s exploring.
Enjoy the large sitting rooms, private verandas, big hand-hewn beds with a pool carved out of rock. You may be as far away from the city as you’ll ever be, but you won’t miss a thing. It is here that you will discover the untouched atmosphere.
All rooms offer ensuite bathrooms with double sinks and a tropical shower. Visit the lodge restaurant for the best meals.
Hotel NO. 5 Entebbe this is a fantastic hotel where you can start and end your safari from. All rooms have a small outside sitting area facing the gardens and swimming pool and has an en-suite bathroom with a shower. All rooms have Wi-Fi internet access, air conditioned, a guest safe, flat screen television, direct dial telephone, filter coffee making facility and mosquito nets over the beds.
Soak up the plentiful sunshine, the pool area has luxurious loungers ideal for long time relaxation. This will probably work best for you on the last day of your safari. The pool will help you cool up as you wait for your travel time so that you head to the airport for your flight.
You can as well awaken your senses and soothe your soul at the hotel’s fully equipped on-site spa, a tranquil oasis designed to uplift, revive and refresh.
You will also be able to locate a perfect souvenir at the hotel gift shop offering a unique selection of locally made products, handmade jewellery as well as more travel essentials.
Kyambura Gorge Lodge is the converted lodge from old coffee store to create a breathtakingly beautiful space. The lodge is located on the edge of Queen Elizabeth National Park with sweeping views of the rolling savanna, the distant mountains of the moon, and the sunken Kyambura Gorge.
The stylish bandas also have a contemporary theme with the accent on local artefacts re-imagined in a new context. Each banda offers a unique view either across the savanna or the gorge.
The lodge is the ideal location for tracking the lost chimps in the sunken forest of Kyambura Gorge nearby and seeing the amazing game in one of Africa’s most beautiful and varied parks, centred around the waterway of the Kazinga Channel where animals come to bathe.
The lodge offers eight beautiful and spacious bandas nestled on the hillside, each with its own bathroom. You will have the chance to see all the views of kazinga channel.
Lemala Wildwaters Lodge offers ten stand-alone elevated timber-floor and super-spacious luxury suites are nestled in the rainforest with amazing river views. Each are linked by raised wooden walkways to the restaurant, bar and library, and feature glass-fronted windows, locally handmade furniture, stylish bathrooms with rain showers, and secluded wooden decks with daybeds and romantic free-standing open-air bathtubs.
Enjoy the delicious sunrise breakfasts and candle-lit three-course dinners and a lovely swimming pool cantilevered above the river in the attractive main communal lodge area.
