Parkside Safari Lodge
Cottages · North of the park, 2 km from Tangi gate · Not stated by the lodge
A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of Parkside Safari Lodge yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
Cottages on the northern approach, close enough to Tangi that you can be through the gate and onto the game circuits before the light goes flat. Rooms are sold by the room rather than the head, which is unusual at Murchison and works out well for two people travelling together. The catch is that the lodge is hard to reach online, and it publishes neither a board basis nor the name of whoever runs it, so everything here needs confirming by telephone.
Why you'd pick it
- Two kilometres from the Tangi gate, the shortest run to the north bank tracks
- Priced per room, which favours couples
- The website goes down often, so book by phone
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 $130 per room. Quoted per room rather than per person: $130 single, $160 double or twin and $360 for a family unit. The lodge does not state what board basis those cover, and it names no operating company, so the ownership badge rests on Ugandan contact details alone. Its website was unreachable on several attempts in July 2026, so telephone before relying on a booking.
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.