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Gulu: Uganda Hotel Scene :: An Upcountry Luxury Option Fit For A German President

ScarlettLion — 2008-10-06T17:28:52-05:00

<![CDATA[HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion">Scarlett Lion</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.<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/koehler.png" class="imgborder"> There's not much about "post-conflict" that makes people think "spa," but that's only if they haven't been to Boma Hotel in Gulu, northern Uganda. Gulu has been the epicenter of a conflict between rebels and the Ugandan government for more than the past two decades, but now that things seem calmer, the flak jackets are being replaced by mud wraps. While most upcountry hotels are never more than basic, Boma Hotel brings luxury in the bush to a

Gulu: Uganda Hotel Scene :: Upcountry Hotel Breakfast Offerings

ScarlettLion — 2008-10-02T13:45:37-05:00

<![CDATA[HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion">Scarlett Lion</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. Earlier this week, we recommended you step out of your comfort zone and check out an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/64750/9623/hotels/Uganda_Hotel_Scene_Take_a_Chance_on_an_Upcountry_Hotel_">upcountry hotel</a>, and yesterday we gave you <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/65137/0869/hotels/Uganda_Hotel_Scene_Your_Upcountry_Hotel_Vocabulary_Lesson">a vocab lesson</a> to help you along. Today, here's the scoop on upcountry hotel breakfasts. Enjoy. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/upcountrybreakfast.jpg" class="imgborder"> Breakfast is usually included in the price of an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Uganda%20Upcountry%20Hotels">upcountry</a> hotel room, which at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/64750/9623/hotels/Uganda_Hotel_Scene_Take_a_Chance_on_an_Upcountry_Hotel_">JoJo</a>'s is 25,000 shillings non-self-contained, and 50,000 shillings self contained ($15 without a private bathroom, $30 with a private bathroom). Breakfast

Gulu: Uganda Hotel Scene :: Your Upcountry Hotel Vocabulary Lesson

ScarlettLion — 2008-10-01T16:30:35-05:00

<![CDATA[HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion">Scarlett Lion</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. Earlier this week, we recommended you step out of your comfort zone and check out an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/9/29/64750/9623/hotels/Uganda_Hotel_Scene_Take_a_Chance_on_an_Upcountry_Hotel_">upcountry hotel</a>. Today, here's a little extra help navigating the scene. Enjoy. <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/upcountryhotelssmall.jpg" class="imgborder"> The official language of Uganda is English, but English here is of its very own unique, um, interpretation. In Kampala, you'll find that most people will speak in a way that can be pretty easily understood, though some effort may be involved. Upcountry, all pretense at British English

Gulu: Uganda Hotel Scene :: Take a Chance on an Upcountry Hotel

ScarlettLion — 2008-09-29T12:41:28-05:00

<![CDATA[HotelChatter's newest contributing editor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ScarlettLion">Scarlett Lion</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.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/ugandaupcountryroom.jpg" class="imgborder"> Kampala, Uganda, may be a bustling metropolitan capital, but nothing about the rest of the country is "bustling" or "metropolitan." Within minutes of leaving the city center, large buildings are nowhere to be found, houses with amenities like tile floors and running water and electricity recede into scores of banana trees separated by occasional mud-brick homes and concrete slabs that serve as stores and trading centers. Traveling north from Kampala to a town in the Acholi region, Gulu,

Kampala : Kampala Hotel Has No Problem With Evoking Colonialism

ScarlettLion — 2008-09-19T09:00:30-05:00

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.