The Elephant Home
Budget guest house with safari tents and camping · Kikorongo, on the Kasese to Mbarara road · A community social enterprise from Kikorongo, with no company name published
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Budget
Outside the gate
Locally owned
The Elephant Home sits at Kikorongo outside the boundary, ten minutes from the park gate, signposted at kilometre 20.2 on the road from Kasese towards Mbarara just before the junction. It is the cheapest honest bed near the Kasenyi plains and the money stays in the village. Book by email, because the domain the guest house used to own now serves spam and has nothing to do with them.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Ten minutes from the gate at the Kikorongo junction
- Community run, with the money staying in the village
- Village walks and a bodaboda safari run from the guest house
- Cheapest honest bed near the Kasenyi plains, from $20 B&B
Cons
- No working website; the old domain now serves spam
- No current capacity figure or room count published
- Archived 2026 rates only, so confirm the price by email
- The Kasenyi game drive needs a three-person minimum to book
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Queen Elizabeth National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryCharged per 24 hours rather than per night.
- $40per person, per day
- VehicleA Ugandan-registered 4x4, the usual hire car, at UGX 30,000; a foreign-registered 4x4 pays $150.
- $8per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $264 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
Entry is sold in 24-hour blocks that begin when you pass the gate, so a trip that starts at midday and ends at 16:00 two days later is charged as three days, not two.
The full fee schedule for Queen Elizabeth National ParkRates at The Elephant Home
From $20 per person, B&B. The last rates the owner published, taken from an archive copy of their own site dated May 2026, per person per night on bed and breakfast: self-contained twin or double $25, room or tent without a private bathroom $20. Their own activities were a village walk at $15, a bodaboda safari at $20, a full day of safari and culture at $100, a Kasenyi game drive at $100 with a three person minimum and a Kazinga Channel cruise at $25 excluding park fees. Read these as 2026 figures from an archived owner page. The domain theelephanthome.com is no longer theirs: since July 2026 it has served Japanese affiliate spam, so it is not linked here. Email theelephanthome@gmail.com instead.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates, read in September 2026 from each property's own website, rate card or factsheet. Twenty-three of the forty-two publish a rack rate of their own. The other nineteen say on request, and no agent or tour operator figure has been used to fill a gap. Watch the basis, because it decides whether two numbers can be compared at all: some quote per person per night sharing, others per room, per tent or per cottage, and meals sit inside some rates and outside others. Park entry is extra almost everywhere at $40 per foreign non-resident adult per 24 hours, plus the vehicle, and the Kazinga Channel cruise is $30 on top.
Questions about The Elephant Home
Does The Elephant Home have a website?
Not anymore. The domain theelephanthome.com no longer belongs to the guest house; since July 2026 it has served Japanese affiliate spam, so it is not linked here. Book and ask about rates by emailing theelephanthome@gmail.com directly, and treat the old domain as unrelated to the business.
How much does it cost to stay at The Elephant Home?
The last rates the owner published, from an archived copy of their own site dated May 2026, were $25 per person for a self-contained twin or double on bed and breakfast and $20 for a room or tent without a private bathroom. Treat these as 2026 figures rather than a current quote, and confirm by email before you travel.
Is The Elephant Home good for families?
We found no child policy or minimum age published for The Elephant Home, so ask when you email to book. What it does offer is a community-run base ten minutes from the park gate with village walks and a bodaboda safari on site, both priced per person and suited to older children rather than infants.
Can you self-drive to The Elephant Home?
Yes. The guest house sits outside the park at Kikorongo, signposted at kilometre 20.2 on the road from Kasese towards Mbarara, just before the junction, so it is easy to find by road. There is no self-drive route beyond that marker published anywhere, so confirm by email if you need more detail.