The Sheraton Kampala Hotel is a hotel in

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,875,834 (2024) and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kampala, Kawempe Division, Kawempe, Makindy ...

, the capital of

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and its largest city. It is one of the three

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s in Kampala, as rated by the Uganda Tourism Board in June 2015.

Location

The hotel sits on the southwestern slopes of Nakasero Hill, an upscale neighborhood in

Kampala Central Division Kampala Central Division is one of the five divisions that make up Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The city's five divisions are: (a) Kampala Central Division (b) Kawempe Division (c) Lubaga Division (d) Makindye Division and (e) Nakawa Divisi ...

. The coordinates of the hotel are:0°19'00.0"N, 32°35'01.0"E (Longitude:0.316667; Latude:32.583611).

History

The hotel opened on October 8, 1967 as the Apolo Hotel. The hotel's opening was attended by its namesake, Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote. When Obote was overthrown in a military coup by

Idi Amin Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 30 May 192816 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until Uganda–Tanzania War, his overthrow in 1979. He ruled as a Military dictatorship, ...

in 1971, the hotel was renamed the Kampala International Hotel. Following the overthrow of Amin by Tanzanian forces, who made the hotel their headquarters, and the

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in 1979, and the return to power of Obote in 1980, the hotel reverted to the Apolo Hotel name. The

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government, which came into power in 1986, liberalized the economy. In 1987, a group of

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ern investors won the right to lease the hotel for 25 years from its owners, the Apolo Hotel Corporation Limited, a company fully owned by the government of Uganda. The hotel was extensively refurbished and was renamed the Sheraton Kampala Hotel when it reopened in 1991, as a Sheraton Hotels franchise. A fence separating the hotel compound from the neighbouring Jubilee Park was removed and the park was renamed Sheraton Gardens. The hotel has since had several episodes of major renovations.

References

External links

Official website

Changing of The Guards for Sheraton Kampala

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Location

History

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