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:
- $83 to $365 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
NL
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!
NL
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!
NL
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.
BE
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.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome safari experience with Tailor Made Safaris!
Perfect 5 stars experience! Tailor Made Safaris showed great initiative in interpreting our wishes. Nick, Freya, Angela and the rest of the staff were very helpful and know exactly how to make your trip unforgettable! The result was a fifteen-day self drive trip that included Sabi Sand Game Reserve in Mpumalanga, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi, Mkhuze and St Lucia in Kwazulu Natal. The accommodations ranged from good to outstanding. We enjoyed all the different game reserves, but Sabi Sand was definitely our highlight! The guides and trackers are real experts and within two gamedrives we saw the Big 5! Fantastic!
If you are planning a trip of a life time to Africa, we would highly recommend Tailor Made Safaris! They really make your dreams come true!
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lots of animals and great service
Through tailor made safaris we were well prepared for travel. With a GPS, telephone and a full-collor book containing the itinerary it was fine to do to travel independently through South Africa.
We had game drives in lovely small game reserves. Overnight in good accommodation varying from self catering to all inclusive.
Highlights of the trip were the exciting night game drives and elephant interaction.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A wonderful introduction to Kwazulu Natal
Booked with Tailor Made safaris following a recommendation and were very pleased with the service. I have mobility issues but a plan was made to help with this so we could experience wildlife, the battlefields and some of the Drakensberg. We loved the Zululand Rhino Reserve, St Lucia and Huhluwe-Omfolozi. The tour of Isandwala and Rourke's Drift with a Zulu guide was inspiring and fascinating, and the Drakensberg were everything we had expected. Great accommodation, good catering and a comfortable vehicle, all at an affordable price. We would happily use them again and indeed hope to do so in the not too distant future.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had a great time in South Africa, all big 5 and many more
Last februari we went on a self drive holiday to South Africa with Tailor Made Safaris.
We got a beautifull road book with the hole trip, every acomodation and all voucher in it. We coud'nt go wrong.
Gps and mobile phone in case off... We did'nt use it. Everything was fine. We saw the big 5 and many more animals.
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing
We were travelling to St Lucia with an 6 month old baby. I can recommend that to everyone of you. In the first place everything was perfectly arranged by Tailor Made Safaris. We really liked the book with the itinerary. The welcome package was nice, accommodations were great, the safaris were wonderful (as we saw a lot of different and beautiful animals) and the service of Tailor Made Safaris staff was excellent. Even if it was a quite short stay in South Africa, we really enjoyed it and would like to thank Tailor Made Safaris for their wonderful job!
NL
Email Sjors | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great tour of the elphant coast.
In september 2014 we made a 3 week self drive “tour of the elephant coast” witch was a great safari/ holiday
The journey was well organised, we received our book with the description and planning of our tour, a few weeks before we left, together with a South African phone and tomtom (navigation).
When we arrived we picked up our car, and our journey began. With the book as our tour guide. Our first destination was Mkuze game reserve, were we spent 2 days on self drive safari’s. we saw allot of wild life, with all the time we wanted to take pictures and enjoy the scenery.
We also visited Kosibay, then we went to Tembe elephant park. Tembe is great luxurious park with perfect service and staff, It had a little les variety of wild life in comparison to the other parks.
From st. Lucia we visited the wetland parks, especially the boat tour and the night drive are recommended. Also the roads in the parks are very well maintained, so self drive safari is very easy
Our last park was Hluhluwe. This a great park if you want to see rhino’s, it also has a lot of hills with some great views over the park.
We had a great Holiday, we saw al lot of animals up-close and made some great pictures.
If we visit Africa in the future, we wil certainly book with tailor made safari’s again
Thanks for the great holiday.