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From the web page:

Gracious and elegant, the Emin Pasha evokes another era when taste, gentle service, ambience and comfort were the hallmarks of a good hotel. We still believe this to be true, but we know that our guests also need modern amenities and up-to-date technology to ensure a happy stay. At Emin Pasha we have created a harmonious balance between old and new. Tradition blends seamlessly with contemporary - from the architecture to the furnishings and soft touches, to those modern amenities that today's business and leisure traveler requires.

The hotel is named after a German man who explored and traded throughout large swathes of territory in pre-colonial Africa. The web site gives a glowing bio of the man born Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer and later called Emin Pasha. He was a compatriot and sometimes colleague of the infamous Henry Morton Stanley, who was hired by King Leopold of Belgium to ensure things went his way.

There aren't any direct references to Stanley, who caused mass misery and suffering in Congo and other places, but in an effort to evoke a seamless past-present melding, staff at the Emin Pasha wear red fezzes, dorky faux-safari colonial shorts, or long flowing white gowns akin to your grandmother's nightie. They address all hotel guests as Madam and Sir (even teenagers), and smile obsequiously as you buy a drink that costs the average monthly salary of many Ugandans.

But it is a nice drink.  And the couches are nice.  And if you hang around for long enough, you'll even see a frequent guest who was a former media personality representing the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in the North of the country. He, however, does not wear dorky shorts.

Single rooms with a garden view start at $260USD.