Fort Murchison
Fort-style rooms and shared-bathroom tents · Former Aswa Lolim reserve, 5 km from Tangi gate on the Albert Nile · Nature Lodges Uganda
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Safari company
Nature Lodges built this one as a piece of theatre: earth-coloured walls, a Swahili-flavoured tower and a rooftop terrace over the Albert Nile north of the park. Behind the set dressing it is a sensible mid-market lodge with twelve rooms, twelve cheaper tents under thatch, a pool with a baby pool beside it and a kitchen that bakes its own bread and grows its own vegetables. One practical warning it makes itself: it owns no vehicle and cannot take you on a game drive.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Published child discounts: free under 5, half price under 12
- Rooftop terrace and tower over the Albert Nile
- Bakes its own bread, grows its own vegetables
- Tents from $50, rooms from $130, taxes included
- Pool with a baby pool for the hottest hours
Cons
- Runs no vehicles; game drives must be arranged elsewhere
- Activities and park fees billed separately, not in the rate
- Shared-bathroom tents sit alongside the pricier en-suite rooms
- No self-drive directions published, just a general road route
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
- Bar
- En-suite bathrooms
- Solar or 24h power
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Fishing
- Chimpanzee treks
- Falls excursion
Read from Fort Murchison's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Murchison Falls National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryCharged per 24 hours, and this is the only park in Uganda's top A+ band.
- $45per person, per day
- VehicleA Ugandan-registered 4x4, the usual hire car, at UGX 40,000 including Murchison's own surcharge; bring a foreign-registered one and it is $160.
- $11per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $303 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
A ticket runs 24 hours from the hour you drive in, not until midnight. Leave before that same hour on your last day and three nights costs exactly three days of entry; linger past it and UWA counts another full day.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates at Fort Murchison
From $50 per tent. From the operator's own 2026 rack-rate PDF, quoted per room and per tent rather than per person. Rooms $130 single and $170 double on bed and breakfast, rising to $160 and $230 on full board. Non-en-suite tents $50 single and $80 double on bed and breakfast, $80 and $140 full board. Extra bed $35. Taxes included.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates were read in July 2026 from each property's own website, rate-card PDF or published government tariff. A lodge that publishes nothing says On request, and any figure that came from somewhere other than the property is labelled. Park fees are extra almost everywhere: $45 per person per 24 hours for foreign non-residents, plus a vehicle fee that carries a surcharge unique to Murchison. Deliberately left out, so you know why you cannot find them here. Baker's Lodge is closed, with a flood notice still standing on its operator's site, and Murchison Bush Camp has taken its place in that portfolio. Budongo Eco Lodge is closed too, confirmed by Great Lakes Safaris, which now runs Pabidi Lodge in the same forest. Geo Lodges no longer has any Murchison property despite older guides saying otherwise. Yebo Safari Camp near Mubako gate, Kabalega Wilderness Lodge and Shoebill Camp Site appear across the directories but have no website of their own that we could reach, so we cannot confirm their rates, their capacity or that they are still trading. Amuka Safari Lodge is filed under Murchison by many sites and is not here, because it sits at Nakasongola on the Kampala road roughly two hours short of the park. Aerolink's 2026 route network also names Anyadwe House and Papa's Camp at the Bugungu airstrip. Anyadwe House turns out to publish its own site, a small high-end guesthouse on the south bank of the Nile beside the park, spotted thanks to a reader correction; Papa's Camp still publishes nothing we were able to check.
Questions about Fort Murchison
Is Fort Murchison good for families?
Yes, on price at least. Fort Murchison's own card gives children under five who share existing bedding a free stay, children under twelve half price, and children under eighteen 30 percent off both accommodation and food. It does not describe a dedicated family room, so check availability across its en-suite rooms and Explorer's Tents.
What does the rate at Fort Murchison include?
Rates are quoted bed and breakfast, or full board for more. Activities and park entrance fees are arranged through the lodge but billed separately, so they are not part of the room rate. Rooms run $130 to $230 and tents $50 to $140 depending on board basis, with taxes included.
Can you self-drive to Fort Murchison?
The lodge gives no turn-by-turn directions, but says most guests arrive by road as part of a longer route through Uganda; it sits five kilometres from Tangi gate on the Albert Nile. It owns no vehicle of its own, so once you arrive, game drives have to be arranged through the lodge or elsewhere.
What rooms does Fort Murchison have?
Fort Murchison has 12 en-suite rooms and 12 Explorer's Tents with a shared bathroom. It also bakes its own bread and grows its own vegetables, and there is a pool with a baby pool for the hottest part of the day, built around a rooftop terrace with sundowner views over the Albert Nile.