Boma Guesthouse (Entebbe, Uganda)

Colonial homestead set in extensive and lush gardens with abundant bird life, this boutique hotel has attentive, friendly and helpful staff looking after it''s 16 rooms. There is a large and comfortable guest lounge and an adjoining games room with guest computers and scanner. Printing a boarding pass is free - other printing & photocopying for UGX500 per page. All bedrooms & ablutions are effectively fly-screened and have digital safe, TV with 7 individually controlled satellite channels incl Al Jazeera, BBC World News, CNN, Fox & M-NET movie channels, desk & chair and an outside patio well equipped with electrical outlets. Rooms 1 & 2 have hip baths. There is both a standby generator & lavish provision of lead acid, battery-backed inverters. Each accommodation building has solar powered water heating with a good head of water. Extraction fans are wind powered and mineral water is available from water coolers and jugs in each bedroom. Bird tables and baths are well maintained. The children''s sandpit has shade umbrella, swings, slides, toys, toy-car & a pirate castle for climbing. All interior areas, bedrooms, restaurants and the pool area are strictly smoke-free. Reliable and fast Wi-Fi provisioned by Infocom UG.
There is an intimate ''''''restaurant'''''' adjacent to the sparkling, small pool where breakfast is served 06:00-10:00, lunch from 12:00 & dinner 18:00-22:00 but there is room service 24/7. Pan-fried tilapia was UGX28,000 (May 2014) and served with some of the nicest boiled potatoes in Uganda (as might be expected from an Irish-owned establishment), three different vegetables and fragrant, rosemary bread. Lemon meringue pie with home-made ice cream was UGX15,000. There is a separate patio restaurant adjacent to the reception area for non-house guests to be entertained and served.