Pretty much everyone who’s been to QENP is familiar with Mweya, since it occupies a fabulous location on a peninsula overlooking the Kazinga Channel and Lake Edward. Because it's so far from anything else, Mweya is a self-contained community, with guide and staff lodging, a petrol station, etc., and it's worth taking the time to stroll around the grounds. Everyone we met here, from the desk clerks to the servers to the maintenance people, was incredibly nice and solicitous.

While the rooms weren't slickly designed or recently updated, they were very nice. The bed was enormous (with walk-in mosquito netting!) and every room has a little porch facing the water. The main building of the lodge is quite attractive. The lobby has an enormous picture window looking out over the water, and there are many places to sit in peace on the porches that trace the outside of the building. Both the bar and the restaurant are appealing spaces, and they have indoor and outdoor seating options. There's also a pool (we and the staff were the only people who used it) and a little firepit, which was a great place to sit at night. One of our favorite evenings of our trip was warming ourselves by the fire while watching a thunderstorm roll across Lake Edward.

Unless you're a quadruped or willing to beg food from the fishermen on the lakes, Mweya is your only dining option for miles around. But even without competition, the food here is good. Although the menu tends toward a sort of innocuous internationalism, there were a few local and Indian dishes available, and we found these to be better than the alternatives.

But our favorite thing about Mweya was the animals! There was a huge group (20-30 members) of banded mongoose that roamed the grounds while we were there. They slept under a shade bush near our room and raced around the outside seating area (and even went into the dining room when someone left the door open). We also saw several warthogs running around--they chased a staff member (much to the amusement of his colleagues) and one snuck up behind us while we were sitting on the patio and proceeded to sniff and knock over our camera, which was resting on the ground.

Less cute but more impressive were the two adolescent lions who woke up everyone at Mweya at 330 in the morning by wandering through the grounds roaring. We watched one of them stand perhaps 10 feet from our room and roar and roar. It was simply thrilling.

My wife and I enjoyed a 3-night stay in this lodge, which is such a well-oiled machine that it can almost be described as a tourist processor. Though it definitely lacks the intimacy and the wilderness feeling of a tented camp, this luxury-hotel-in-the-bush is exceptionally well located indeed. While the rooms are nothing to write home about, the food really is delicious – particularly the Indian dishes. When having breakfast or lunch al fresco, it’s a real delight to watch the birds that are all around – even trying to snatch some bits off your table. Except for the odd waiter who thinks only fancy dressed customers deserve to be treated with respect, the service is impeccable. But for such a hotel, it surprised us a bit the lodge didn’t have a license to change foreign currency (though it’s possible to pay your bills with a credit card). However, since we needed to change some Euros into Ugandan shillings before heading south to Ishasha and Bwindi, the manager-on-duty was so kind to help us and changed some Euros into the local currency out of his pocket. As far as we could understand it: while the hotel wasn’t licensed to change, breaking the law when they had done so, the manager did not since he was not an Ugandan national. Thank for this!

i first visited uganda in nov/dec 2007 and as part of the trip we went to Mweya Safari Lodge... I travel a lot for work and leisure and have joined up to Trip Advisor to give honest and reliable reviews of places i have stayed...
This lodge is right in the Queen Elizabeth National Park... the staff were very friendly - great service.... we stayed for 2 nights on full board basis... all meals were excellent - buffet style one night and a la carte the next. Great variety at both. Breakfast was also very impressive with lots of choice to please the multi-national guests that stay at the lodge. the views from the terrace and pool area are breath taking.
I am going to to Uganda this year with other friends and a trip to Mweya is top of my list. Yes the rooms are not as luxurious as hotels in other parts of the world - but you are in Uganda - enjoy the area - enjoy the wildlife and enjoy the people !

This is a beautiful spot to see Queen Elizabeth National Park but I was disappointed with the lodge itself. The rooms are older and uncared for; our curtains didn't open without almost pulling them off the ceiling and the back door was virtually impossible to lock and unlock. After having stayed at the sister lodge Paraa at Murchison Falls last year, I was surprised with this lodge. The staff in th restaurant were very unfriendly and difficult to deal with. We were a group of 8 and it took a lot to finally convince the staff to put tables together for us to be able to eat as a group. I really got the impression that we were inconveniencing them when we asked for drinks or needed something at our table. The cooking staff at the buffet were terrific and friendly though. It was really the hosting and serving staff that were difficult.