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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 Dan Lenort | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A Choice experience from arrival to departure
There are no strangers here; Only friends that you haven’t met yet. - William Butler Yeats
Tanzania Choice Safaris is the company founded and operated by Kakasi and Brenda Kimaro whom I now hope to count as friends. Between them they are a class act, catering to an outstanding experience. Brenda maintains a long list of resources and options that ultimately allow you to create a boutique experience. Kakasi has an extensive list of contacts and seemingly knows everyone you may cross paths with. Our safari guide was Noel Kimaro, Kakasi’s nephew. Noel was not only our guide, but our host and educator. Being in the family gave him the latitude and experience to make our tour truly exceptional.
From the arrival at the airport to the drop off at the same, we were under their wing. While our trip might not have been a common itinerary, it flowed smoothly with some great surprises. Church, picnic, tours of multiple dispenseries/hospitals, the Safari with multiple lodges, stops at the African Galleria in Usangi, and Sanaa in Arusha rounded out our trip.
Documentation, emails, and even a Zoom call prior to our trip outlined everything. Should I ever go back, there is only one company I would consider as my safari guide, namely Tanzania Choice Safaris.
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Email Larry I. | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our Safari by Tanzania Choice was wonderful!!!
On the recommendations of friends we booked our Tanzania safari with Tanzania Choice. This is a small company that has the personal touch vibe. The tour was well organized and a pleasure to experience. Our driver, Noel, was superb. Personable, professional and joy to hang out with! A true expert on navigating the reserves, locating the animals and at the same time we were always on schedule. All in all I would have no doubts about booking with Tanzania Choice next time.
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Email Aubrey | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Knowledgeable, safe, on time and wants guests to have best experience!
We absolutely loved our safari with Noel! He was great from the very beginning to the end. He was knowledgeable and kind. Took such good care of us! You will absolutely have a wonderful time if you’re with him!
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Email Marlene Farias | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
Brenda helped us to organize all the details even to get a better airline option for timing/arrival destination. All accommodations were great and all our needs were cover. Leslie our guide was amazing, friendly, very knowledgeable about the area, animals and always with a great smile. Totally recommend it. See you all sometime soon!
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Email Sean Kennedy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent
Four day family trip to Arusha, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, and Olduvai Gorge. We had an absolutely wonderful time, our guide Noel was superb. Overall a 10/10 experience and worth every penny. Communication was outstanding, we followed our itinerary like clockwork. We have been on several safari trips and this was one of the best.
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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!
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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 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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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 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!