Desert Breeze (Arua)

Desert Breeze Hotel (Arua) - located on Plot 20 Oda Close, half a kilometre east of the Arua Post Office is a luxurious oasis of comfort and relaxation in Arua City. It sits along the eastern bank of River Osu which starts at the Golf Course and has Osu Village plus the Arua Hospital lagoon as its backdrop. Offering a wide assortment of facilities eg non-smoking rooms, free wi-fi, gym, secure parking, trustworthy concierge, safe luggage storage, DStv, bar, refreshing restaurant, airport shuttle (pick-up and drop-off), business centre, conference halls, event planning venue (eg wedding receptions, etc), room service, 24-hour front desk, seasonal outdoor pool, the hotel entices all kinds of guests (tourists, travellers, visitors, partygoers, researchers, etc). This cozy property in Anyafio West provides well-kempt gardens (similar to theme parks), a pleasant ambiance, memorable experiences, the finest catering consisting of local and international cuisines plus tranquil lodging or accommodation equipped with intercoms and air-conditioning.

Enjoy a perfect halfway stopover between South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, where GOD's bright sun meets serenity!

Tourist attractions near DBH include: West Nile Golf Course, Arua Hill Stadium, Arua Hospital, Arua City Tower (Monument), Arua Prison (on Ediofe Road), Emmanuel Cathedral Mvara, Oluko Falls (Abairo and Oluporoporo), Miriadua Falls (about half an hour by vehicle in Maracha), Ajai Game Reserve in Madi Okollo, Mt. Wati in Terego, Salia Musala in Koboko, Biku Church (Smallest on Earth) in Nebbi, Pakwach Bridge, Lodonga Basilica in Yumbe, Mt. Oce in Moyo, etc.

No matter what you are going through, sometimes life is breezy! I guess every Angela would love to lounge or lodge here.

While filming a stocktaking, investigative documentary on "Stealing From the Sick" for BBC Africa Eye, my Kalinabiri Primary School OB named Solomon  Serwanjja (who worked at NBS) stayed at Desert Breeze. They actually met up with some medical crooks in a residential close not far from their abode.

When you pass by Oda Road which is off Weatherhead Park Lane, you can tell that there is a body of water (definitely a swimming pool) in the Desert Breeze compound while many people within the wall fence shout, clap, celebrate or applaud in any way because sound reveberates as it hits water (Learnt that in Ordinary Level Physics). A hard-to-please Muganda OB from Advanced Level working for an insurance company stationed in Arua told me he spent some time at Desert Breeze Hotel, paying 90,000 UGX per night for days (Something I couldn't afford nor get sponsored for) and rated it "upper echelon" as he searched for residentials near the Central Business District (CBD). This is a guy who told me that I did not know how to draw during Senior 6 yet our History yearmates unanimously called me "the Best Artist" in S5. However, one night after campus, he phoned (when I had just returned home to Kyebando Suburb of KLA City from my Editorial Cartooning job in Mukono) asking me to make his portrait. Why the turnaround? Thought his standards were too high; maybe he had seen an improvement in my hustle. I learnt from him that we should work hard until expensive becomes cheap. Train or practise until hard becomes easy!