Nile Safari Lodge
Eco bandas · South bank of the Victoria Nile, on the boundary downstream of Paraa · NOVAM Ltd
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Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
The luxury end of Murchison, on a wooded riverbank downstream of Paraa. Eight bandas share thirty-two acres, every one with a private deck and an outdoor tub, and the rate covers three courses, house drinks and a cruise. Two things deserve a flag. The 2026 prices are extraordinary even by safari standards and sit well above the lodge's own history. And the sources disagree on where it stands: the lodge says it is in the national park, while UWA's management plan lists it among facilities adjacent to the protected area.
Why you'd pick it
- Eight bandas and never more than twenty five guests
- Open-air bathtubs and an infinity pool above the river
- By some distance the most expensive bed in the landscape
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Night drives
- Birding
- Fishing
- Chimpanzee treks
- Falls excursion
- Community visits
Read from Nile Safari Lodge'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.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates
From about $780 pppn. The 2026 card is published only as images and is quoted per room, not per person: a deluxe banda works out at roughly $780 per person sharing in low season and about $1,290 in high season, which is January and February, June to September and 15 to 31 December. That is several times the next most expensive bed in the park, so confirm the figure by email before you budget on it. Full board including house drinks, wines, laundry and a sundowner cruise.
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 Anyundwe House and Papa's Camp at the Bugungu airstrip, which is decent evidence that both exist, but neither publishes anything we were able to check.