The restaurant at New Court View Hotel Masindi

New Court View Hotel is proud of its much-deserved reputation for the excellence of its food. The menu has an international flavour, including Ugandan, Indian, European, Chinese and vegetarian dishes. Our snack menu and packed meals are ideal for those on a quick turn-around to catch ferries or resume their journey. Packed breakfasts are prepared for those starting before first light to go bird or chimp watching.

Time for a cuppa in one of the bandas at New Court View Hotel. PHOTO CREDIT TripAdvisor

Meals can be taken in our Dining Room or our Verandah Restaurant where you have a choice of seating:

• the verandah is sheltered but without losing the beauty of Uganda’s weather
• the bandas – enclosed within flowering creepers – seat up to 10
• a selection of tables under large umbrellas on a lawned area surrounded by plants
• the Dining Room seats up to 30

Accommodation at New Court View Hotel Masindi

New Court View Hotel has 17 individual thatched cottages set in our delightful gardens. We have three single cottages, five doubles, eight twins and one triple. All cottages are self-contained with their own toilet, solar-powered hot water shower and basin. Most cottages are fitted with TVs.

New Court View Hotel, Masindi. twin bedroom

Conferencing at New Court View Hotel Masindi

New Court View Hotel’s conference room is ideal for meetings, workshops, training sessions, parties and receptions. The conference room seats up to 30 people and has facilities which include projectors, wall-mounted whiteboard, flip chart and wall sockets.
The room is popular for parties and receptions which are catered for by our excellent kitchens. Those hiring the room can select from our menus or propose their own menu to suit the occasion. For larger groups we provide function tents which can seat any number.

Things to do in and around Masindi

Uganda’s only Polish Church was built by refugees who fled Europe during the Second World War. The small community of Nyabyeya, next to Budongo Forest, was once home to a community of Poles who built a church that remains popular with the community to this day.

In the early 1940s, around 2000 Polish women, children and elderly men arrived in western Uganda. They were some of over 18,000 Poles settled in 22 camps across Africa.

After being held captive in Siberian prisoner of war camps over 110,000 people made their way from Russia’s Steppes to Iraq, Iran, Palestine and India. The Polish Catholic Church at Nyabyeya was built between 1943-1945 almost entirely by the women who had left their husbands and other male relatives fighting in Europe.

The Polish Catholic Church at Nyabyeya features in “From the Steppes to the Savannah” by Barbara Porajska.

If you’d like to visit the Polish Church, it’s recommended that you contact New Court View Hotel so they can make arrangements for you. The church is often locked as it receives few visitors (and is not easy to find either). The church is 45 minutes’ drive from Masindi.

Read more about the Polish Church on the Bradt Uganda Guide update site.