Kabalega Resort Masindi
Town hotel with a campsite · 4 km outside Masindi on the Kampala road · Kabalega Resorts Ltd
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
A town hotel rather than a safari lodge, four kilometres out of Masindi on the road you will be driving in on anyway. Standard rooms start at sixty dollars and the top suite is a hundred and fifty five, all listed openly, which puts it among the very few places around Murchison you can price before picking up the phone. There is a pool, a gym, a football pitch and a campsite, and the Uganda Tourism Board rates the group at three stars through to 2027.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Prices published openly, from sixty dollars a room
- Kids playground, pool, gym and spa on site
- Every room type includes space for at least one child
- UTB-certified three-star hotel through 2027
- Ten minutes from Budongo forest, half an hour from the park
Cons
- A town hotel, not a safari lodge; no game drives on site
- Kabalega runs three branches; confirm you book the Masindi one
- No minimum age found beyond room occupancy limits
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Campsite
- Spa or massage
Read from Kabalega Resort Masindi'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 Kabalega Resort Masindi
From $60 per room. Published on the group's own site: standard room $60, deluxe $80, executive $120, twin or triple $130 and the VIP suite $155. Camping is offered too. Kabalega runs three branches, at Masindi, Hoima and Nyamasoga, so make sure your booking names Masindi.
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 Kabalega Resort Masindi
Is Kabalega Resort Masindi good for families?
Yes, on the basics. Every room type states how many children it takes alongside adults, from one child in the standard and executive rooms up to two in the deluxe and VIP suite, and there is a kids' playground on site. We found no separate minimum age, so confirm that when you book.
What does it cost to stay at Kabalega Resort Masindi?
Published on the group's own site: standard room $60, deluxe $80, executive $120, twin or triple $130 and the VIP suite $155. Camping is offered too. Kabalega runs three branches, at Masindi, Hoima and Nyamasoga, so make sure your booking names Masindi.
Can you self-drive to Kabalega Resort Masindi?
Yes. The resort sits four kilometres outside Masindi town along the Masindi to Kampala road, the lodge's own site says, which puts it on the route most visitors already drive. It is ten minutes from Budongo forest and about half an hour from Murchison Falls National Park.
What facilities does Kabalega Resort Masindi have?
A pool, gym, spa, football pitch and a kids' playground, alongside a campsite for anyone travelling with a tent. Uganda Tourism Board certifies the group as a three-star hotel through 2027, and it positions itself as a town hotel rather than a safari lodge.