Kibale has a good selection of properties. Thanks to good quality roads, the forest is accessible from properties in the Toro Crater Lakes area and Fort Portal, as well as those closer to the Kanyanchu Tourist Centre.
Sleep under the canopies of old trees or perched atop a ridge. Enjoy panoramic views of the rainforest and the Rwenzori Mountain range, and for those more adventurous, take refuge high above in old-style treehouses. There is a wide range of accommodation options near the park to suit all budgets.
Private cottages, with electricity, Wi-Fi and all the works are the most luxurious option, but there are great tented camps for those looking to rest a little closer to nature. If you’re planning a chimp trek in Kibale, consider the distance to Kanyanchu, the start of the trail.
Listing of Best Lodges in Kibale Forest National Park
There is a good selection of upmarket, moderate and budget lodges at Kibale Forest they do care for all the classes of people as analyzed below.
Up Market Accommodation Facilities
- Kyaninga Lodge
- Kibale Primates lodge
- Papaya Lake Lodge
- Ndali lodge
- Chimpundu Lodge
Midrange accommodation facilities
- Turaco Tree Tops Lodge
- Lake Nyinabulitwa resort
- Chimpanzee Guest House
- Kibale forest camp
- Chimpanzee forest guest house
- Kitojo tourist home
Budget Facilities
- Tinka’s homestay
- Lake Nkuruba nature reserve
- Enfunzi campsite
Additional accommodation frequently used by visitors to Kibale Forest National Park can be found on the Crater Lakes Kabarole page of this site.
Up Market Lodges
while at Kibale Forest these lodges offer products and service that are of high quality compared to others, intended to people of high social class with big expenditure namely.
Kibale Primate Lodge
The best thing about this accommodation facilities is its location when it time for chimpanzee tracking, it is just couple of minutes from your bed to the trail head offers luxurious services with comfortable safari tents, cottages and meals are available comprises of the 7 Banda and 8 tents and run by the Kanyanchu River Camp set in secondary on the edges of forest.
Turaco Treetops Lodge
This is an excellent new lodge and it is just 15 minutes’ drive from Kanyanchu Trailhead has luxury cottages oriented towards a wall of luxuriant rain forest strata, the lodge gives better views has swimming pool enclosed play TV room and an improved restaurant.
Moderate Lodges
Kibale Forest Campsite
This accommodation facility has seventeen long serving tents set in a pretty forest patch 2km south of Bigodi, and now managed by the nature lodges who spruced up the rooms and slashed the prices to make it affordable for everyone. It has bar shower, swimming pool restaurant for the quality meals.
Chimpanzee Nest
This accommodation facility is reached from Nkingo village 5km 15minute drive from the chimp tracking trailhead at Kanyanchu, has 7 guest cottages set in the great forest setting in the dura river valley on the edge of Kibale Forest and it provides service at a reasonable price, cottages set in a regenerating farmland face a hillside of pristine forest across the river and the place includes of gorgeous tract of swamp forest that drips with palms climbers, orchids, and tree fern.
Kibale Forest Camp
This accommodation facility has 10 tents managed by nature lodge, this long-established tented camp stands in a pretty patch of forest 2km south of Bigodi offers comfortable beds, restaurant, parking yard for the visitors.
Safari Hotel
This hotel comprises of 6rooms lies about 3km past Kanyanchu on the road to Bigodi it has restaurant that offers meals including fruit salad, or pine apple, a clean toilet, warm basin showers in the rooms.
Budget Lodges
Tinkas Homestay
Tinka home stay has 2 rooms next to Magombe Swamp visitors center offers visitors the chance to sample food in a traditional setting for example, sitting barefoot on floor mats and eating food that includes posho, potatoes, beans peanuts greens banana among others.