HotelChatter's newest contributing editor Scarlett Lion is filing her stories from Uganda. Every now and then, she'll be sending us dispatches about the hotel scene here. Got questions? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.

The Emin Pasha Hotel has what are undoubtedly some of the most comfortable couches in Uganda (a claim we can support after sitting on many, many a couch, resulting primarily in lower back aches). The décor and atmosphere is luxuriant to the point of evoking bygone days of slower paces, a simpler world, and, another relic of bygone days: colonialism.]]> ScarlettLion 2008-09-19T09:00:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/4/143536/2519

HotelChatter's newest contributing editor Scarlett Lion is filing her stories from Uganda. Every now and then, she'll be sending us dispatches about the hotel scene here. Got questions? Send 'em to us and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.

Every time Saturday or Sunday rolls around, or an unpredictable "public holiday" is declared in Uganda, you can be sure to find expatriates and wealthy Ugandans flocking hotel swimming pools.

While the Sheraton was once the place to see and be seen, and maybe spot a government minister or two, such is no longer the case. It now has some Olympic-sized competition in the new Speke Munyonyo Resort.

]]> ScarlettLion 2008-09-05T15:05:22-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/3/105215/7983 <![CDATA[<p><i>HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion"><b>Scarlett Lion</b></a> is filing her stories from Uganda. Every now and then, she'll be sending us dispatches about the hotel scene here. Got questions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send 'em to us</a> and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.</i><p><img src=" http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/serena_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><p>If it weren't for that guy peeing in the street about a hundred meters away, a stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Kampala+Serena+Hotel+/local/995"><b>Serena Hotel</b></a> in Kampala, Uganda, might feel a lot like a stay at any nice hotel, just about anywhere.<p> The lobby houses a fountain and plush couches, as well as well-mannered waiters ready to serve you cocktails for New York prices. And the rooms are New York-priced too. <p>While a prostitute-filled lodge on the other side of town ScarlettLion 2008-09-03T14:44:00-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/29/62244/7409 <![CDATA[<p><i>HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion"><b>Scarlett Lion</b></a> is filing her stories from Uganda. Every now and then, she'll be sending us dispatches about the hotel scene here. Got questions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send 'em to us</a> and we'll get them answered. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/kampalaskyline.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>People have been known to call <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/ug/Kampala"><b>Kampala</b></a>, Uganda's capital city, a city of seven hills but it's not really true.<p>It's a hilly city, but the number seven doesn't correspond to all the swells of land with luxury homes at their peaks, nor are there seven valleys, flooded and filled with slum dwellers.<p>In fact, it's hard to count just about anything in Kampala. Estimates of population vary from 1.5 million people to 4 million. Estimates of the number of ScarlettLion 2008-09-02T16:39:12-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/