This place is amazing - we stayed in the very horrible and grotty hostel beside it the night before and had the worst night ever in Uganda so we decieded to spoil ourselves and upgrade! And it really was amazing - can't speak highly enough of it. Staff were really friendly and efficent , the food was excellent, rooms had amazing views and there was a great feel to the place with lovely little extra touches. Definatly stay there!! The safari was brilliant too!!

After a wonderful stay at Bwindi Lodge and Mihingo Lodge, we were transported to this awful time-warped 80s place. To be fair, the location is great, overlooking the Lake. But that's about it. The food in the restaurant is Westernized, badly cooked standard fare. The birds on the terrace take the bread from your desk and relieve themselves on your table (my drink was "replaced" by the unfriendly waiter by simply adding more juice to water down the bird poo). The rooms are small, dark, super old-fashioned and have an ugly and loud A/C in front of the door. You're not in the nature (like in most other lodges in Uganda), you're in an old motel-like environment which had it's best times several decades ago but still thinks of itself as the best place to be. Service was snobby and unfriendly, our request to have a morning coffee in our room was denied with the answer "that's too early for our waiter, you can come to the lobby". We informed our tour operator about our displeasure and the next day stayed in the absolutely amazing Jacana Lodge, which is only 10 minutes away - and even a lot cheaper! I would never come back here as staying here means you're paying a lot of money for a fake environment and miss out on all the great unique places you can stay in and really experience Ugandan hospitality and the spectacular nature of this country.

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!