Grand Imperial Hotel

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Grand Imperial Hotel
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General information
Location Speke Road, Kampala, Uganda
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Other information
Number of rooms 103
Website
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Grand Imperial Hotel is a hotel in Kampala, the capital and largest city in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.

Location

The hotel is located on Speke Road, on Nakasero Hill, in the heart of Kampala's central business district. Adjacent landmarks include the East African Development Bank, the Bank of Uganda, Kampala Sheraton Hotel and the Ugandan headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank. The coordinates of the hotel are:0°18'54.0"N, 32°34'51.0"E (Latitude:0.315000; Longitude:32.580883).[1]

Overview

It was one of the first hotels to be built in colonial Uganda in the early 20th Century. It has a total of 103 rooms, a swimming pool, two restaurants (Didi's Dining Room) & (The Coffee Terrace), two bars (Cooper's Bar) & (The African Bar), a shopping arcade (Grand Imperial Shopping Arcade) and a gymnasium.[2]

News

On 11 June 2014, following the caving-in of the floor in Didi's Dining Room, officials from Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), sealed off sealed off a section of Grand Imperial Hotel, while the floor collapse is being investigated.[3][4]

Ownership

The hotel is a member of the Imperial Hotels Group, which has three hotels in Kampala and three others in Entebbe. As of July 2014, the properties of the group include:

Kampala, Uganda
Entebbe, Uganda

See also

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