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Tanzania Choice Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2007)
- Member Of:
- Tanzania Association of Tour Operators
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $400 to $1,700 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Ann and Lee Swanson | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect!
We are in our late 60s and had always dreamt of seeing the African landscape and wildlife. The trip of a lifetime for us. Tanzania Choice Safaris organized that dream beyond our expectations. We got tears in our eyes many times especially when we had to leave our guide. We always felt special and taken care of. You can’t put a price on a trip like that. Thank you all for making the dream come true!
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Email Ron Slosson | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
From transportation to accomadations to our safari guide, the trip was flawless!
Tanzania Choice Safaris put together an unbelievable trip for six of us. Communications with Brenda, from Choice Safaris, began nine months in advance of our trip and with her guidance we chose an itenerary that began with two days in Arusha, an eight-dy safari that included Tangire National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and Serengeti National Park, then ended with four days in Zanzibar. We booked our own flights from Denver to Arusha and Zanzibar back to Denver. Other than these flights, Brenda made arrangement for all of our transportation, in-country flights, accomodations, cultural tours, and of course the safari itself. Leslie, our safari guide for eight days, was incredible. Every day on safari was incredible. I'm not sure how he did, it but everyday Leslie would find some new wildlife, often in remote locations. It seems like we saw everything in the East Africa wildlife guide (except an aardvark)! And birds! With Leslie's help, I added over 100 new bird species to my lifetime list, often to the annoyance of my five traveling companions. You have to take this trip to believe it! The accomodations were more than comfortable. Even the bush camp tents had double beds, hot showers and flush toilets! We ended the trip in Zanzibar with snorkeling tours, a spice tour, and cultural tour of Stone Town. Brenda booked our tours and accomodations in Zanzibar and everything went smoothly including transportation to the airport. With a trip of this magnitude and six people, glitches are to be expected, but there were none. I can't say enough about Tanzania Choice Safaris. If you're booking a safari, this is the company to use. And as a bonus, their prices are very competitive!
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Email Ann | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent organization, communication and planning.
We had a most amazing experience, I never thought we would be able to afford a safari but we had a sixteen day adventure at a very reasonable cost. The lodging was all fun, well run and beautiful. Love the bush camps. We had the best guide ever. Leslie took great care of us and found every animal and bird you could want to see. So many birds! It was a dream to be riding through the grand landscape searching for the next surprise.
We added on a balloon ride over Ndutu that I would highly recommend, worth every penny. Also the cultural tour in Mto wa Mbu was so good.
All the details came together without a hitch. Terrific and highly recommend. Thank you Brenda, Leslie and Noel(sp?) truly a trip of a lifetime, but I want to come back!
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Email Ruth | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Tanzania Choice did a great job for me and for our group!
I was part of a group hiking Mt Kilimanjaro. Tanzania Choice did an excellent job with communication, both leading up to the trip and during our days in Tanzania. The people were fabulous, so helpful and kind. I was thoroughly impressed!
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Email Pam | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Attentive to ensuring we had a wonderful inclusive experience.
We used Tanzania Choice Safari for our 8 day vacation. There were 3 couples, which was the perfect size for a safari vehicle. We had a blend of 4 days safari, and what I would call community immersion. We attended church service in the community, visited hospitals, toured the shifting sands, gorge, and had time for some shopping. We chose a blend of lodges and a bush camp. The bush camp was my favorite place to stay. Most of our meals were included. We thoroughly enjoyed our driver. He was knowledgeable and asked us what we wanted and then delivered. I would highly recommend Tanzania Choice Safari.
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Email Kim R | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
TCS is detail and relationship oriented.
This was our third Safari with Tanzania Choice Safaris and each one has surpassed the previous trip! Brenda is so helpful in scheduling what we want to include in our trips and also offers excellent suggestions to fill in the gaps. The safari guides are among the best - they found the animals and birds we hoped to see and are friendly and fun along the way! Each of our three safaris has been different and with different price points. TCS delivered what we asked and hoped for each time. I tell everyone I know that if they are planning a Tanzanian safari then TCS is the best tour operator to use!
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Email Michelle | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An amazing, highly personalized experience!
This was our first safari, and it was absolutley incredible! We booked somewhat last-minute, but you'd never feel from the experience we had that the planning was rushed. Brenda was so wonderful to work with, listened to all of our wants and offered up great advice and suggestions. The lodges we stayed at felt so wonderful and special. And I can't say enough good things about Noel, our guide! He did such a great job at getting us to see everything and it felt like we always had the best position in any viewing group without being intrusive to any of the other vehicles. We even caught him helping out other drivers on several occasions!
I had such a great time and wouldn't change anything. I'd happily recommend Tanzania Choice to anyone!
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Email Cindy | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Brenda is highly responsive, personable, attentive to details, professional and caring
I felt fully supported by Brenda through the entire trip from individual and group personal safety, health, comfort, reliability perspective which meant I was fully present and immersed in these astonishing daily safari, cultural, and recreational experiences without hesitation. That is a true gift! The same can be said for Leslie, our safari guide who is such a respectful, caring person who listens well to his clients requests, questions and has a wonderful sense of humor.Leslie has strong professional expertise in bird, animal sightings, bird and animal behavior, technical driving, navigation which surpasses majority of guides based on my conversations with theirs who have been on safari recently. In addition he is a highly proficient animal photographer and shared his fabulous photos with us through the tour.
I agree with previous reviews from early 2024 about quality of accommodations. I highly recommend the bush camp experience because of immersion in the full sensory experience of Tarangire, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti parks. Hearing distant animal calls, bird song, dark sky nights, sunsets is a unique lifetime experience.
Tarangire Simba Lodge pool, viewing deck at sunset with elephants, gazelle, wildebeest, many birds wandering past and drinking at the water hole was exceptional!
Seeing lots of animal babies of all species was a big thrill for all of our group. We learned and observed the full life and death circle from newborns nursing to vultures cleaning up a carcass, as well as the ecology of the bush and forest environments.
The cultural tour at Mtn wa Mbu was welcoming and an up -close visit with this community’s people, family and daily life, work, food and drink, play and crafts. As an individual tourist it is challenging to have a more authentic sense of Tanzanian culture without these types of group cultural exchanges which are respectful, relaxed, and personable.
This is a family owned and operated, locally staffed small company that truly shows great care and respect for their employees, clients, Tanzanian people, and natural environment. Tanzania Choice Safaris staff have combined experience with of many, many years and history in safari business and it shows!
This was a unique and very memorable trip for me in comparison to my other travel adventures.
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Trip of a lifetime
My son and I spent 6 days on Safari in Taranguire National Park, Ngorogoro and Serengeti National Park. Our experience was just over the top amazing.. incredible experience of watching so much wildlife, way more than we had expected. Our guides, Leslie, was just wonderful. .knowledgeable and enthusiastic, and made sure we saw as much as possible. He was also quite knowledgeable about birds, which I appreciated.
The parks were so pristine seemed to be such havens for the wildlife.. just wonderful. Our accomodations were all very comfortable and interesting and the staff everywhere were so helpful and welcoming.
We were so glad we took the advice of friends and booked our tour with Tanzania Choice Safaris..
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Email Sarah | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience
TCS was incredible for both our climb and safari. Brenda was extremely communicative with our group from the time we booked our trip over a year ago, helping us feel well prepared for the climb. The entire crew of guides, cooks, porters on the climb were extremely welcoming and so helpful and supportive.
Noel was our guide for our safari extension after the climb and we had a great time relaxing after the climb. The accommodations were great and Noel was so knowledgeable. He found/identified every animal/bird and made our trek so fun.
Nothing but good things to say about TCS, would highly recommend them your climbing/safari excursions!