The Boma Hotel

The rooms at the Boma Hotel are tastefully decorated in an eclectic African European style to reflect the local culture, with artwork and hand carved furniture is locally manufactured to support the nearby communities. The rooms are also equipped with four-poster beds with mosquito nets, daily housekeeping, in-room safes as well as wireless internet and solar heated hot water shower.

Budget room:

The budget room sleeps up to 2 people with 2 single beds. While this room does not have an en-suite bathroom, it does have a private bathroom across the corridor for the sole use of the Budget Room guest/s.

Single Room:

The single occupancy rooms have either 1 King size bed or 2 single beds, depending on availability.

Double Room:

The Double Rooms have 1 king size bed. The Twin Bedded Rooms have 2 single beds.

Triple Room:

The Triple Rooms are furnished with a King size bed and a Single bed. A limited number of our Twin bedded rooms can be configured to have 3 single beds.

The restaurant is open from 6am to 10pm, serving mostly home-made European style meals, with a dash of Indian, Thai and Mediterranean choices. There are specials available every few days, and the chefs are always willing to make specific dishes if they are informed in advance. A number of vegetarian and vegan options are available. Our kitchen is also open 24/7 for room service.

The Boma Hotel offers full English breakfast including a continental style buffet. The Buffet has fresh juices, fruit, cereal, yoghurt, muffins. The cooked breakfast includes bacon, sausage, eggs any style, baked beans, mushrooms and tomato. Fresh tea and pressed coffee is also available as well as brown bread and toast. Carefully selected multi-cuisine dishes are made with fresh local ingredients. You can also purchase other drinks at the fully stocked bar with local beers and sodas. Imported wines and spirits are available and the staff can produce a variety of cocktails.

Fishing trips can be arranged with a number of local tour operators to bask in the captivating scenery of the Lake.

A half and full-day trip to the Ngamba Chimpanzee Island Sanctuary can be arranged by prior notice.

We can arrange transfers to Kampala and beyond using a reputable taxi driver.

We can arrange a trip to the Entebbe Golf Course with golf clubs available for hire.

Sunset cruises can be chartered on the lake with prior notice with transport and from the departure point can also be arranged.

At The Boma, sustainability is an integral part in operating their business in a manner that maintains a balance between helping the environment and the community, while providing guests with a comfortable atmosphere to relax in. They are constantly looking for ways to reduce the energy used to run the hotel, the amount of water used, and the amount of waste produced. As a consumer, ultimately, it is the guest who makes a difference by choosing destinations and businesses that are committed to the environment.

The hotel uses solar water heaters for all the showers. This reduces the electricity consumption of the hotel drastically. Water is a scarce commodity in Africa; customers can help save water by spending less time in the showers. The hotel also utilises a water catchment system enabling us to store rainwater and pump it into the main tanks when needed.

They also utilise a water catchment system enabling us to catch and store rainwater in separate tanks. They are then able to use this for gardening, or to pump treated water into the main tanks when needed during water shortages.

Most hotels in Entebbe use plastic mineral water bottles; and these fill up landfill sites, and cause a lot of roadside pollution. They use large reusable 20lt Mineral Water Fountains, which we dispense into glass jugs (in the rooms and in the restaurant). This cuts out plastic water bottle waste 100%.

They exclusively use energy saving bulbs throughout the hotel to reduce energy costs so guests are encouraged to help reduce energy wastage by switching off lights, fans and TV’s when leaving a room.

Where possible they use locally sourced fruits, vegetables and meats in the restaurant.

They home-grow most of the salad ingredients and a good deal of the fruits and vegetables, in the manager’s garden, about a 5 minute cycle from The Boma. They also compost organic waste from The Boma to make fertiliser.

The Boma Hotel also supports Papercraft, a fantastic grass roots project that makes eco-friendly products such as our menu covers, recycled paper used in albums, note books and glass beads. They also make the hand-made soaps that we use in our guest bedrooms. All of the glass waste (wine bottles, broken glasses, jam jars) and all of our paper waste is taken to Papercraft and recycled. Many of the items in the craft-shop are from this source.

The hotel uses bicycles for running short errands to the shops, for delivering waste material to the composter, and for collecting fruit and vegetables from our gardens. Bicycles are also available for rental if you want to explore Entebbe in an environmentally friendly manner.