Is African Roots Entebbe pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at African Roots Entebbe?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at African Roots Entebbe?

Check-in start time: noon; Check-in end time: 11:30 PM. Late check-in is available during limited hours.

Does African Roots Entebbe provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs on request. A fee of USD 10.00 per vehicle applies.

Where is African Roots Entebbe located?

Situated near the beach, this guesthouse is 2.9 mi (4.6 km) from Kitubulu Forest and Beach and within 6 mi (10 km) of Victoria Mall and Entebbe Botanical Garden. Imperial Shopping Mall and Muzinga Square are also within 6 mi (10 km).

African Roots Entebbe Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Feb 15, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely staff and setting!

The place felt very safe and in a nice setting with plenty of green outside space. Rooms were very clean and spacious with nice private front terraces. The staff were really friendly and helpful, especially the onwer, Agnes, who arranged sightseeing trips in the area, airport transfer (15 mins) and other transport for us. There is a nice bar area where they serve great breakfast and drinks. They even stocked up on our favourite drinks on request. The only drawback for us was the location. It's very isolated on a residential dirt road so to get to Victoria Lake, supermarkets or restaurants you rely on costly guesthouse transport or UBER (wifi in Uganda is very flaky due to power cuts). Agnes did arrange takeaway from a nearby restaurant one evening so that's an option otherwise.

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Aug 3, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Outstanding place and excellent value too

An outstanding and comfortable place to stay if you are visiting Entebbe, Uganda. Excellent value too. Highly recommend it!

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Aug 3, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

An exceptionally positive experience

This was an exceptionally positive experience for us in so many ways. We were warmly welcomed, had delicious breakfasts, and treated like old friends in this wonderful guesthouse. We truly appreciated how kind, friendly, and helpful everyone was at the guesthouse as this was our first visit to Uganda. We will definitely return to this guesthouse and recommend it to others who are visiting Uganda.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Marina, UK

Feb 15, 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Attractive hotel with congenial staff.

Manager Stella and staff very helpful with special requests. Good rooms and general facilities. Excellent breakfasts.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Nina

Jan 29, 2018

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

good for overnight befor flight

Very nice place and friendly stuff. Unfortunatelly very loud music during the night from the neighbourhood. Close to the airport with offered transport for 10 USD.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

toni, Washington state

Dec 8, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Clean hotel, great staff, close to town and beach.

This is a guesthouse so it isn't fancy but the rooms are big and clean. There is hot water too. Breakfast is good. The staff is very helpful and polite. I felt very safe at African Roots.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Nov 28, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Clean hotel and great for our short stay

Only had about 8 hours at the hotel before my flight but everything worked just as needed. Good shuttle service, good couple hours of sleep, and a couple of restaurants within walking distance.

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Rev Bill, Escondido, CA

Aug 23, 2017

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

We had paid for two rooms, tried to give us one.

After we got our two rooms things were OK, but not good.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Aug 22, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very pleasant overnight stay

I had to spend a night in transit in Entebbe and had a very good experience in the African Roots Guesthouse, Pick-up at airport was well done. Staff was very friendly and the place is just lovely.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Paul, Canada

Jul 31, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great Hotel, Friendly and excellent location

We had a wonderful stay at the African Roots hotel. The staff were excellent and friendly and informative. They helped us with a dinner (of great local cuisine!!) and let us know of places to see and things to do in the town of Entebbe! I would stay there anytime and recommend this location to anyone!

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Debra M

Jul 2, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Short stay

African Roots Guesthouse is a quaint house. It's old, but it was fine for our needs. The staff was wonderful and did everything they could to accommodate our needs. The area was nice as it was close to the beach and a great pizza place on the water. It's not an area to walk around alone in or at night, but it was fine for two women strolling in the daytime.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Mar 4, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Clean and very. Very friendly and convenien for the air port. Very helpful and friendly staff.

10/10 Excellent

Halla

Jan 21, 2017

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Rent, ryddig og veldig god service!

Veldig hyggelig betjening, utmerket service, flink kokk, de ga gode råd og hjalp til med anskaffelse av en svært hyggelig og pålitelig sjåfør til oss. Rommet var alltid ryddet da vi kom tilbake på ettermiddagene. Ved bestillingen sto det det var gratis vann på flaske og utsikt over hagen/bakgården og hvis jeg husker rett veranda. Dette stemte imidlertid ikke. Utsikten var rett i veggen på et bygg 1 meter unna. Litt trangt rom for å oppholde seg i og svakere belysning enn det jeg er vant til. Men fungerte fint til formålet. Ypperlig overnattingssted ift pris.

10/10 Excellent

Socam, London, UK

Nov 22, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

An airy, friendly guesthouse near Lake Victoria

Excellent guesthouse, efficiently run by the extremely jolly Anna and Stella in a blue-and-white former private house in a quiet, upmarket neighbourhood near Lake Victoria. There are verandas on both floors and an outdoor area where I cleaned my hiking boots and left stuff to dry. Our first room had three single beds and was OK but a little cramped and stuffy for the person in the end bed. The upstairs rooms are great; large, light and No 5 has a large, sunny balcony. Definitely recommend it.

4/10 Poor

peter

Oct 24, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Make sure that you are given what you book.

On arrival I was given a very different room to the one booked, however I was charged the same rate and when I challenged the manager was informed that they had made the decision to help me!! The picture on hotel.com of the outside of the property is no longer how it looks, additional building works have taken away a lot of the original charm. I was genuinely disappointed .

6/10 Okay

Amir

Oct 18, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness

Quiet n Small in Entebbe close to Victoria Mall

Easy Access to the Lake and Victoria mall, quiet small place shy of 10 rooms, but friendly with Van transport service

10/10 Excellent

Josh

Oct 11, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

seamless late night arrival

My flight arrived very late at night so I wasn't there long, but the staff made sure someone was at the airport to pick me up and the someone stayed up to check me in (at 4AM!). It was my first visit to Uganda so I didn't know what to expect, but they made it a smooth transition. It's nothing fancy, but it's clean and comfortable, and you really can't beat the price. I would definitely stay here again.

10/10 Excellent

Jo, uk

Oct 7, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

nicer than a hotel

Have stayed here a few times now and still love it. The rooms are comfortable, very clean and with comfy beds and hot water, the food is delicious and the staff really friendly. A nice alternative to a hotel to unwind in before going back home.

8/10 Good

SHEILA

Sep 22, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely to be collected and welcomed late at night, with good breakfast before my travel on to Kampala the next morning. Everyone is friendly and wanted to make sure I was comfortable. Will definitely stay again.

10/10 Excellent

anne, scotland

Sep 17, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great position for the airport close to the beach

Staff very helpful and friendly. Also dropped us off and collected us...nothing any trouble Strongly recommend

8/10 Good

Trio

Sep 16, 2016

Liked: Staff & service

Two faces

Wir waren zweimal dort. Beim ersten Mal hatten wir ein dreckiges Zimmer mit kaum Ablage im Hinterhof der Anlage. Kein Fussboden, kaum Steckdosen. Uns graute es schon vor der Rückkehr in dieses Guesthouse, nachdem wir einige Tage in Kampala waren. Dieses Mal bekamen wir ein "upgrade" weil das eigentliche Zimmer belegt war. Dieses war riesig mit kleinem Balkon, großem Bad. Da hätte man es länger aushalten können. Das Personal war zu jederzeit sehr freundlich, das Frühstück okay.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Aug 24, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very personal

Excellent for short stay. Airport pick up and drop off was excellent.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Aug 21, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good rooms, great breakfast!

We stayed one night in order to take a flight out the next day. Note that this is a guest house, not a hotel. The rooms were very comfortable (with ensuite bathrooms) and exceptionally clean, and Anna was so welcoming, even offered to accompany us if we wanted to walk to/from any of the nearby restaurants after dark. Definitely have the pineapple pancakes for breakfast; they are fabulous! They can arrange visits to Ngamba Chimpanzee Island, which is a forested island in Lake Victoria (about an hour by boat) where the people are on a small tip and the rest is given over to chimps rescued from illegal trafficking. Really beautiful. (We stayed at African Roots after our Ngamba Island visit.) It must be well sound-proofed. We saw a number of people come in while we were downstairs in the dining room, but never heard a peep all night.

10/10 Excellent

Stephanie, Köln

Jul 31, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Saubere Zimmer, freundliches Personal, schöne Deko und 5 Min. Fußweg zum Viktoriasee. Wären gerne länger geblieben!

10/10 Excellent

John

May 23, 2016

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Wonderful. Helpful. After I booked they contacted me to see if I needed a ride from the airport(which I did). JUST what I needed.

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