Nick van de Wiel of Tailor Made Safaris
Tailor Made Safaris
- Located In:
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Netherlands
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2009)
- Member Of:
- FGASA, TKZN, MHCTO & EDTEA
- Tour Types:
- Self-drive mid-range & luxury tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $84 to $367 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Frank and Annemieke | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The South African dream fulfilled
We booked a self-drive tour for the Elephant coast with exentsions to Drakenbergen and Cape Town. Although Talor Made Safari's offers a number of "standard" tours, these are just helpful starting points for designing your own tailor made holiday. The holiday already starts two weeks in advance by recieving the self-drive package consisting of a GPS-system, a South African cell phone and, most important, a tailor made book providing all the day-to-day information well illustrated by beautiful photo's. We called it our "black bible".
Our trip in South Africa was fantastic. We drove from game park to game park ourselves, but the game drives were all guided. We had a good mix of parks (also marine), and especially Tembe and Rhino Zululand provided us with some onforgetable experiences. It was interesting to see the changes in landscape driving from Elephant coast to Drakensbergen. The walks and views in Drakensbergen were impressive. We ended our holiday with a five day, fully guided, stay in Cape Town and it's surroundings. Our guide Michel did a great job. This our first, but certainly not last trip to South Africa!
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Email Genio van Hees | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonderfull and unforgettable experience!
In August 2015 we made a journey through South Afrika. A part of it was organised bij Tailor Made Safari's. Without exaggerating it must be said that this part of our yourney was a real highlight! The way in which arrangements were made, the professionalism of the guide, Paul, his way of communicating, the humor with which he shared his knowledge with us, the wonderful meals that were prepared by Nicks wife Freya en the barbecue that Paul surprised us with, were wonderful. It was even so that we asked Nick to arrange one more safari for us with Paul after we left St. Lucia and went to Hluhluwe. From six in the morning till six in the evening we had a second wonderful day with him. If it would have been possible we would have taken him with us to Swaziland and Krugerpark! So, nothing but compliments for the organization of this part of our journey!
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Email Johanna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
fantastic holidays: interesting mix of beautiful gameparks, brilliant nature and lovely coast!
Tailor Made Safaris designed our trip with us, advising on driving distances, places to visit, accommodations to choose. The safari pre pack is absolutely brilliant: you get prepared for the holidays and you also have all practical info together in one book once you're in South Africa. Although part of the tour consists of ' building blocks' that can be chosen from the website, the whole trip really is tailor made. We had some special requests for trips outside the Elephant Coast and that was also organised for us. I would book again with them for sure!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Highly recommended wild coast photo tour with photos, experiences and memories for a lifetime!
We spent 8 days in June on the Wandering the Wild Coast Photo Workshop organised by Tailor Made Safaris and Emil von Maltitz, a tour aimed at photographing the stunning beaches, mountains, waterfalls and myriad other features along a portion of the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape. On trips like this, our aim is to learn new techniques and tips to improve our photography, take a few memorable photos, see some new and spectacular sights and have a good fun holiday in the process. The trip was all that and much more. Our guide on this trip, Emil, in addition to being a wonderful and passionate photographer, is incredibly knowledgable about both the theory and practice of virtually any aspect of photography that we asked him about...the perfect combination for a photo guide when your key objective is to learn and improve. Photography and sights aside, the trip was booked and carried out with almost clockwork precision in spite of a few of our stops being in places with no roads or electricity, let alone cell phone reception. The catering was varied, ample and delicious and the stay extremely comfortable throughout.
This was our second photo trip with Tailor Made Safaris and Emil and something tells me that it will not be our last!
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Email Suzanne & Jenaida | under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Go book your plane tickets and safari tour, right now!
We had the most wonderful time during our trip in one of the most amazing countries imaginable. South-Africa is in many ways the perfect travel destination with its jaw-droppingly beautiful nature and animals, diverse cultures, rich history, interesting cities and lovely people - and Tailor Made Safaris booked us the best possible 2 week-trip in which we could experience all these things. Although we've only seen a tiny part of the country (which is a bit unsatisfying, we must say), we've seen and done so many amazing things that it's hard to mention only a few of them.... Which is why we're going to urge you to see all of them. Here goes:
- The parks we've seen - Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, Tembe Elephant Park, iSimangaliso and Pilanesberg (which will soon be included in the TMS-travel package) for the indescribable (and sometimes very up-close) animal sightings and landscapes, the fantastic guides and delicious braai lunches. The safari-fever is very intoxicating, so make sure you have enough time on your hands and don't miss a single one of the parks, as they are all beautiful in their own way!
- Kosi Bay for the beautiful views and snorkelling, Ponta d'Ouro for the lush beach, the water activities and the sweet dogs you're certainly gonna want to take home with you.
- St. Lucia for the hippos and the hikes (take a walking safari through iSimangaliso, not to be missed!) and a Cultural Village tour, to get an introduction to the Zulu culture.
- Johannesburg for some unmissable insights on the rich and (very) recent history this country has gone through.
Tailor Made Safaris has made these amazing experiences possible and gave us the best service imaginable (with excellent accommodations, guides, tours and even a self-drive package including a personalized book!). We're certainly coming back to see the rest of the country and of course we will then be booking Tailor Made Safaris again. We suggest you do the same :)
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A beautiful/lovely holiday arranged by TailoredMadeSafaris that ensures every detail to serve us!
With a lot of preparation in advance Tailor Made Safaris (TMS) gave us a beautiful holiday. We wished it would never end. TMS is good organised and works with one mission in mind: To ensure a lovely and careless holiday with the finest game drives in great parks with beautiful places. Careless by making it easy to travel through this part of South Africa by using a personal made travelbook, navigation, telephone and personal contact during the trip. TMS selects the best places to stay and the wishes of the customers are their command!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Super self drive trip with Tailor Made Safaris!!!
We 're just back from our 24-days self drive trip in South-Africa. We booked this trip with Tailor Made Safaris and that was a very good decision!!! From the start we had very good contact with them and everything you wish for is possible.
Our trip brought us to Drakenberg, St Lucia, Hluhluwe-IMfolozi,Kosy Bay, Ponta D'ouro. Tembe Elephant Park, Mlilwane and Kruger. Mountains, beaches and wild life. In one word FANTASTIC!!
Our accommodations where great. Most of the time we had self catering and our own braai.
So if you have plans for visiting South-Africa start with Tailor Made Safaris!!! They enraged everyhting for you included a persenal routebook, GPS and African phone. Go for it!!!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing holiday, great passion for nature!
Tailor Made Safaris is an excellent choice if you want to visit South-Africa. We visited Drakensbergen, Hluhluwe, Tembe Elephant Park and many more beautiful places. If you considering going to south-africa we highly recommend Tailor Made Safari. They are very flexible and give you excellent tips to make your holiday unforgettable! Our favorite place was Tembe Elephant Park, we had amazing sight seeings with very close elephant encounters. If you like hiking we also advise a trip to drakensbergen. Our gide was perfect, his knowledge is amazing and his passion for nature is very inspiring to other people. A special thanks to Paul and Angela for giving us the best holiday experience ever!
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65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
A beautiful holiday in KZN
Thanks to TMS, we have an amazing journey in KZN. The information booklet, the written-out program, the phone and the navigationsystem were important to the success. Also the guidance of the staff was excellent.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Once in a lifetime ***** - Experience
Our self drive tour with Tailor Made Safari’s (TMS) was from the beginning to the end an amazing experience. Due to our daughters internship at the Bethesda hospital at Mkuze we decided to plan a 23-day tour through South- Africa. She was going to join us for 7-9 days. We e- mailed our expectations (of activities, accommodation, the vehicle) to TMS and got a quick response with a proposal for our tour. We used Skype and the e-mail to communicate (even a last- minute change was no problem); the booking proces was personal and was tailormade to suit our requirements!
Our tour brought us to Durban Krantzkloof, the Drakensberg Mountains (Royal Natal National Park), Piet Retief, Swaziland (Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuari) Ubombo, Mkuze Game Reserve, Tembe Elephant Park, Kosi Bay, Ponta d'Ouro (Mozambique), Zululand Rhino Reserve, St. Lucia, and back to Durban again. All Highlights, with the beautiful scenery at Drakensberg as our favourite. Our stay at the Tembe Safari Lodge and the Rhino River Lodge was superb. We really enjoyed the horseback riding, canoe and boat tours, cultural tour, elephant interaction, snorkeling, and our swim with the dolphins was amazing. We had various game drives and they were always exciting: We were all wondering which animals we would get to see again (and tick off our list!).
Thanks to the entire TMS team for this once in a lifetime ***** - Experience,
Lieze, Shana & Dries, Monique & Erik.