Kind and welcoming people trying to serve you as well as they could, but awful food, dogs walking freely in the garden and bothering you (sticking their noses in your food) while eating didn't do it for us the night we stayed there.

The hotel itself is full of historic charm and Congolese arifacts. Maybe Diane Fossey liked it in her time, but this place desperately needs Gordon Ramsay and a makeover, especially since this is one of very few obtions in the area to eat.

My wife and I stayed here for 4 nights during a recent tour of Uganda, largely as a base for the gorilla tracking and then to recover over the next couple of days (we certainly needed an easy day after 9 hours tracking!). The hotel was comfortable, the hot water largely plentiful (although not so good when the rain started) and the staff very friendly and helpful. The bar/lounge area had nice furniture and a lovely log fire so was a great place to spend the evening and to recall the highlights of our gorilla experience. We did a cookery lesson with the hotel chef the day after our tracking and produced a very edible 4 course lunch of African rather than western food which was a nice way to spend our "recovery day". On our last day we visited the local village and had a good time seeing how they live, sampling their food and the local banana beer!
A really nice place to stay.

Recently we stayed in this ‘second-home’ of Dian Fossey, Traveller’s rest in Kisoro, Uganda. Nice place, but not a second home to us. In the night of Jan 6-7 2012 we were robbed of money (our spare gorilla permit) and equipment (a.o. camera, phone) and the hotel refused all responsibility. Worse, to keep their record clean they denied the theft and accused us of setting it up, telling this to all guests and the police joining in common interest.
So if you still decide to stay here, take care .