Marvel in the majestic Serengeti!
Seven Wonders Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2011)
- Member Of:
- TTB & TLTO
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $160 to $550 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Meg L. | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Augustine is very experienced and talented at finding animals and accommodating customers.
Seven Wonders was very accommodating about customers staying at different places, being on time, and making us comfortable. Augustine M. is a very experienced guide who can see things far away that I would never see. He went above and beyond to make sure we had a great safari experience. 7 Wonders is very reliable and a good value.
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Email Theresa | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
9 day Kenya & Tansania Budget Safari
We made the 9 day Kenya & Tanzania Budget Safari. We started from Narobi to the Masai Mara NP, we hade a great guide and gamedrives there. Than we go back to Nairobi and with shuttle bus to Arusha. There our safari to Lake Manyara NP, Serengeti NP and Ngorongoro Crater started. The NP were amazing, also our guide was very good and our accomodations was wunderful (tented camps & lodge). The organisation from 7 Wonders Safari was really good. Every time we had a question during our safari, we got an answer via whatsapp in minutes. So we can really recommend this tour! :)
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Email Roman | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very professional and dedicated!
We booked 1 week safari trip with Seven Wonders. It was our first safari trip and it was awesome! We got picked up from the airport and from the same moment our journey began. Communication with the operator was quite smooth. They provided us with a detailed itinerary that met all our expectations. We went during hot season, but they still managed the best lodges and camps for us. The campsite in North Serengeti was simply amazing. Staying in a middle of a wildlife with the comfort of a 5 star hotel. Coffee lodge was also very good. Our guide/driver was nice and friendly and really worked hard so we saw the best of Africa. We managed to see all Africa Big 5 animals, given that some were quite rare. Overall, I highly recommend going with Seven Wonders. They are the best value for money and they will definitely try to exceed your expectations during the trip. You won't regret it!
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Email SUNITHA | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
HAD A WONDERFUL PRIVATE FALMILY TRIP I REALLY RECOMMEND 7 WONDERS SAFARI
We went on a 6 day safari and 3 day Zanzibar trip with my family including my kids with 7wonders safari. our privite safari trip was very well organised and we saw a lot of animals except Rhinos. All the lodges/ tented camps where we stayed were very confortable and and the food was very good The tented camps were very safe although we heard animal sounds at night. Our guide/ driver Juilas was a wonderful guide with a lot of patience and a very sharp eyesight in finding animals. except for the bad roads from Ngorongoro to Serengeti everything went on well. we are thankful to 7 wonders safri for organising this trip and for all their immediate replies to all our questions and making this trip a memorable one.
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Email Ahamed Najeeb | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Super Friendly, thorough knowledge about the parks, good in spotting animals
Staff are professional, punctual and friendly. Our Driver Augustine was excellent in spotting animals. We were able to watch all kind of animals including a big group of lions.
The food made during our stay in camps at park was excellent. I travelled with my family. I will definitely recommend Seven Wonders for any type of groups.
Email Chloe | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Would highly recommend - provided us with a family trip of a lifetime.
A dream come true - this safari was an absolutely incredible experience, one that we will all remember forever.
I spent a lot of time researching safari companies and I chose Seven Wonders because it had many great reviews and often people mentioned how helpful the staff were, especially Evelyn in the office.
I'm really pleased we chose this company since Evelyn really was extremely helpful - even with an issue unconnected to the safari. I had independently booked flights to Zanzibar, but I had difficulties accessing the tickets online beforehand and wasn't getting any communications back from the airline. Evelyn phoned the airline for me and resolved the issue - she was an absolute star! Evelyn's colleague, George, was also lovely and helpful...and our safari guide Juma was truly wonderful - so kind, warm, friendly, knowledgeable and genuinely helpful. He really added to our experience in so many ways.
We did the 3 night/4 day safari and went to Tarangire, Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater. Each park had its own highlights - we saw the big 5, plus loads more. We watched lions stalking, eating and sleeping; hippos in the water and on ground; leopards relaxing in trees; baby elephants playing; and so many giraffes, zebra, buffalos, wildebeest, gazelles...as well as mongoose, monitor lizard, hyena, ostrich, flamingos, baboons, etc.
Our accommodation was different each time - lodges, glamping and basic camping. The food was really good - so many vegetarian options and tasty fish and chicken for the kids. Everyone was so kind and friendly. Thank you Seven Wonders!!!
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Email Daniel | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Bad experience. We feel abandoned and unprotected by this company.
Terrible experience! I went with my family to try to see the great migration and thanks to local guides and not our driver we found it but our driver Linos refused to go. First, he asks us for money and they didn't say anything in the company, which we refused, then he began to speak violently and kept us standing for two hours.
When we got internet we called 7 wonders and they informed us that for the 3 hours we had already lost we should book another hotel in the area where the great migration was and pay 2 taxes from the natural parks.
We agreed to pay, we reserved the hotel on our own and when we said to go, the driver Linos refused again, demanding payment in cash. We call 7 Wonders again and they tell us that we must pay in cash.
We take out all the money we have in cash and we are missing 160 USD to reach the amount of 1050 USD that they ask us to pay the park taxes and we inform them that when we go through an ATM we will pay them the amount that is missing.
It is at this time that the situation becomes totally surreal. The driver Linos calls the company and makes up a story that we have insulted him and that he is not going to take us to the area of the great migration where we had already reserved and paid for a hotel minutes before. We called the company and he told us, to our surprise, that we had offended his driver and that the new plan was cancelling.
I insist, at no time did anyone say anything offensive to the driver Linos.
We missed the chance to see the great migration.
We lost 662 USD from the hotel we had booked.
We had to put up with another day and a half with this driver and his derogatory comments about what he called our white money.
We had to see Ngorongoro with a negative environment and with 0 explanations.
We had three car breakdowns along the way.
Tanzania is beautiful. There are many Safari companies.
I think that in our case, perhaps more than being a problem with 7 Wonders, it was a manipulation and attitude of the driver.
He wanted to share the experience because no one should go through the situation that we live.
Reply from Seven Wonders Safaris
Posted on Jul 19, 2023Dear Daniel,
We would like to thank you for your feedback regarding your experience with us during your trip to Tanzania.
We are sad to hear that it turned out as disappointment as this was not really our intention as our aim is to offer good service to all our guests regardless.
Just to share our side of story, you have booked 4 Day safari which was supposed to take you to Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro, with one overnight to each park. You started with Lake Manyara and everything went just fine, the problem started on the third day in Serengeti where you were supposed to do half game drive then drive to Ngorongoro for an overnight.
In the morning of that day you asked your guide to drive you to where the migration is which was a bit far from where you were on that day and your guide explained to you that it will not be possible to drive there and get to Ngorongoro before dark as we are not supposed to drive guests around during dark.
The misunderstanding occurred and your guide decided to call the office so that we can explain to you and the office elaborate to you what will be possible by that time. So you were advised to spend another night in Serengeti at your own costs given that it was a last minute changes and there was nothing to do to get any refund from Ngorongoro accommodation, and agreed with that and we advised you to contact your accommodation as that is where you were staying and you already had a direct contact with them and see if they will be able to accommodate you and pay them directly, something which you did.
So the other charges was for the extra charges as park fee and concession fee to overnight Serengeti on that second night, we gave you all calculations and you said you can pay right away. After 15 minutes you told your guide you have no problem to pay but you prefer to do it in Arusha and it wasn't really $ 60 as you claimed on your feedback.
Your guide informed the office again and we told you that is what you suppose to do immediately for you to have a second night in Serengeti and the park cannot wait until your return in Arusha, that is where everything went wrong as you were not willing to pay this extra.
We understand you were really eager to see the migration and we have tried our level best to assist you, but since you were not willing to cover the extra cost then it became hard and beyond our control as your time was not enough and of course the program you had was not really for migration during July, August and September.
Before your arrival in Tanzania our colleague explained to your Agent of where the migration will be during your visit, but you insisted that you know exactly where they are as you have been tracing them and we should change your accommodation from Northern part to Kirawira.
For the time wasted in Serengeti, it is because we were trying to find solution and wait for you to confirm with your accommodation in-order for your guide to know where to go as you completely disrupted your program for that day.
Before this review was submitted, you contacted our office through WhatApp and you were in contact with our Manager and you requested $ 1,500 as refund for the bad experience and when we were working on it we just saw your review with different stories of what you were claiming on WhatsApp.
On behalf of our Company we really like to apologize about the behavior of our guide during this trip and about the breakdown which sometimes can happen because of the conditions of our roads, we will work on all this to do better in the future.
Great guides!
Very thankful to Evelyn from 7 Wonders. The discussions took months, but she was very responsive & helpful throughout.
On our first day, we met George in their office for a general briefing so that we know what to expect for the entire trip. Our first guide, Julius was humble & knowledgeable. We were then assigned Hozza for most of our safaris. He was friendly & very knowledgeable as well. He had a good eye to spot all the wildlife. Car breakdowns are really common, but it was resolved seamlessly due to the company’s good teamwork.
They even arranged their own chefs to come to our lodges to ensure we were well fed. We met Issac & Dickson & they were really friendly & good cooks too.
We were accompanied with Martin up Mt. Kilimanjaro, Rogath & Tobias around Marangu area. We are of good praises for all these guides assigned to us. Highly recommend 7 wonders
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Email Clint | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent guide and great service.
We booked a 3 day private camping tour to visit the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro crater. The trip was excellent! The tour included airport pickup and drop off, two nights of hotel stay, and the 3 day safari with meals.
Our guide, William, was very knowledgeable and friendly. He was continuously pointing out animals to us and teaching us about what we were looking at. He was excellent at spotting animals and made sure to spend time helping us to see everything that we were interested in. Our cook and William's helper, Dixon, was very fun and energetic.
I would recommend this tour for anyone interested in camping and spending as much time with the wildlife as possible.
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Email Tatiana | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect first safari experience with Seven Wonders Safaris
Seven Wonders Safaris is a trusted company so please don’t doubt and go on safari with them. I want to say many thanks to Evelyn who helped me in the process of booking my first safari. She was always willing to answer any kind of questions I made and she resolved all my doubts. My friends and I did a 4 day mid range safari that was like luxury visiting Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro and we couldn't have had a better guide than Nestor. He is a very knowledgeable and experienced guide who can spot everything even in many kilometers of distance, he is very professional and respectful of the wildlife so if you are planning to go on safari ask for Nestor to be your guide, you won't regret. He always made us feel comfortable and protected. We saw many animals but the best was a big pride of lions with 11 baby lions...so lovely. Thanks again Seven Wonders Safaris team for this once in lifetime experience and also thanks for the fantastic birthday surprise in Rhino Lodge that was memorable and I'll allways keep it in my heart.