Major additions to the Kampala Serena after exactly 10 years of operations
As the Kampala Serena Hotel comes up to commemorate 10 years of operations under the Serena name – Africa’s leading hotel brand once again as singled out by the World Travel Awards 2016 – are major changes on the drawing board.
The hotel in the heart of Kampala previously known as Nile Hotel International, had in a clearly misguided move been given to a totally unsuitable Tunisian three-star resort management company under a highly questionable deal, before their managers on-site absconded one fine night, leaving the Government of Uganda in a lurch.
Following prolonged legal cases was it only in 2004 that the property came back on the market and Serena’s vigorous effort bidding for the management and reconstruction under an initial 30-year concession was so successful that none of the other approved bidders in the end submitted their documents to the Privatization Unit of the Ministry of Finance
The hotel will, apart from a number of additional rooms, also get a second major Presidential Suite, reportedly aiming to rival the one of sister property Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa which has persistently been recognized as Uganda’s leading Presidential Suite
Also planned are extensions to the existing banqueting and conferencing facilities as clearly demand for those has for some time now outpaced supply, a situation every hotelier can only be proud of.