La Grande Chez Johnson Hotel — Hotel in Kampala

So, we travelled as a group to Kampala to watch the rugby this past weekend and had the misfortune of staying two miserable nights at Chez Johnson Muyenga. The first sign of trouble was that the rooms look like little corridors. There are no showers, just the little telephone shower heads with nowhere to hang it. ||Then I arrived at my room and the tap that holds the telephone shower head is leaking with the drip-drop sound of Chinese torture all evening. So I call reception and after an2 hours, a plumber ambles into the room, gives the tap a quick look over and announces that he's got to buy a part. I'm not sure if he wanted me to give him cash for that. ||||Anyway, I turn around to switch on the TV and theres no plug at the end of the power cable. Luckily, I find a man roaming on the corridor with an obviously broken TV set, and I drag him in to sort out mine. He proceeds to calmly insert the naked cable ends of the cord into the socket, switches on the TV and shuffles out of the room without a word!||||But the worst treatment was on the morning of our departure. Breakfast was horrible anyways, but the last morning's breakfast was atrocious. Two of our group of 18 got coffee before it unceremoniously run out "The boss told us not to make coffee" was the response, some got black tea before brewed tea arrived that tasted like dishwater, three of us got a bit of fruit, the rest didn't, five got a single egg split into pieces, and so on. ||||I got the black tea and two miserable slices of bread.so I called the waiter to ask for my bot of fruit and eggs and, to everyone's shock, he stuck his nose up in the air and declared to me "We are done with you".||||Do not, I repeat, DO NOT stay at this hotel. Right next door is the pleasant Kenrock hotel. Wish we had...

Very nice views! We were in a pickle and needed another hotel so we saw this one was close and dropped in. The price was reasonable for the area. The manager promised us the best room in their facility. I must say, if we received the best, I’m scared for the rest. The hotel is old and rundown for sure. Many lights in the corridors don’t work; it was very dark inside the hotel hallways. The main stairs going up are a hazzard as they are poorly designed with huge jumps, each step has a sharp slope, and the weird curvature doesn’t help either. We finally found another set of stair we used for our 4 days here. The mattresses are the cheap foam that the secondary kids take to school. But the beds were comfortable enough. The sheets were ok but the upper bedspreads looked like they had been around since the 1960’s. The tv was locked in a cage and sitting in it loosely, not hung on the wall so it made positioning it difficult as it wanted to lean to the side. The reception likes to turn the channels on the tv to what they want to watch and we made several inquiries to please turn it back as we were watching a program and they’d turn the channel in the middle. Breakfast is a complete joke. We attempted it one morning and found very cold and old samosas. We were promised bread but it never came. Other...

We had a group of about 50 travel from around Uganda for an event in Kampala. We worked directly with the fabulous Winnie Esther to arrange all of our accommodations and food for our large group. She and her staff showed care, attentiveness, and kindness to all of us, and helped make everyone feel at home. They were flexible and accommodating as things changed last minute, and were exceptionally professional. They prepared delicious meals for us and ensured that everyone was comfortable in their rooms, and they expertly catered our event for 200-- high quality and reasonable price. Great...