★★★★★
A calm, generous stay
Woke up to the cathedral bells and the best coffee in Kampala. Staff treated us like family.
Miriam KsisaExecutive and standard rooms, a working kitchen, conference halls and a view of the city that has welcomed travellers, pilgrims and friends since 1978.
The Guest House sits on the southern slope of Namirembe Hill, just behind St. Paul's Cathedral. We opened our doors in 1978, and have kept them open through every season of the city below.
What we offer is plain and considered: a clean room, a warm meal, a room to gather your team, and a verandah to read a book on. We are not a hotel. We are a guest house, and the difference matters to us.
You will be met by name. You will eat with people from a dozen places. You will hear the cathedral bells at seven. And in the morning, if the mist lifts, you will see all of Kampala laid out below you.
Singles, twins, suites and family quarters. Cotton sheets, hot showers, mosquito nets and the kind of quiet you forget exists in Kampala.
Three meals daily, plus afternoon tea. Ugandan classics and quiet international fare, served on the terrace or in the dining hall.
Two venues scaled from a fifteen-seat boardroom to a full hundred. Tea breaks, projection, in-house catering, prayer space.
Curated by people who live here. Cathedrals, markets, museums, Lake Victoria afternoons, drumming evenings, a city you'll come back for.
Weekend silent stays, quarterly study weeks, family-of-four packages, and a long-stay rate for visiting clergy and researchers.
Off Namirembe Road, behind the cathedral. Parking, Wi-Fi, 24-hour security, airport pickup on request.
We stayed a week and never quite left. Mornings on the verandah, afternoons in town, evenings with the bells. The house remembers you back, by your name, your tea, your usual chair.Adong & family · Gulu · April 2025
Woke up to the cathedral bells and the best coffee in Kampala. Staff treated us like family.
Miriam KsisaAn open evening of choral music with the Namirembe Cathedral choir, followed by tea and mandazi in the garden.
Roasted matoke, ground-nut sauce, garden greens and slow-braised goat. Our chef's seasonal table, Wednesdays only.
Six days, three meals, no programme. Bring a book, leave with a finished one. Twelve rooms only, all garden-facing.