"Benson Safaris: Thrilling Adventures Await!"
Benson Safaris Tanzania
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2006)
- Member Of:
- TATO, TTB & IGS
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $300 to $1,200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Kumari | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had the most phenominal safari experience with Benson Tours.
We found Benson Tours online. He was very quick to respond to all email. Our luggage didn't arrive from Nairobi (we were coming after touring in South Africa) but Benson himself was extremely helpful. He arranged one of his drivers to go to the airport the very same evening to pickup our bags. All communications with the airline and airport staff was done by Benson. It was a great relief!
Benson put together a great eight day itinerary for us. Our guide/driver, Mr. Goodluck is very knowledgeable and spoke English well. He was very accommodating and answered all of our questions about the country and its animals. Accommodation in all places were superb except for Arusha. There was a mix-up but Benson rectified it by paying for our lunch and dinner on the day of our arrival. All in all the safari was beyond our expectations.
We highly recommend Benson Tours!
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Email Vanni | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Amazing adventure expedition!!!
Last August I organized for me and my friends an expedition of three weeks all around remote Tanzania,Selous,Mikumi,Ruaha,Sumba Wanga,Katavi,Mahale Mountain,lake Tanganyika,Mwanza(Victoria lake),Northern Serengeti,lake Natron,Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano,Ngorongoro,Tarangire.
An amazing adventure with a very organized staff and operator.
I highly recommend Benson, with him I have studied a very long and difficult itinerary, but Benson always answered me quickly and optimally;I tried with many local operators,but only Benson had satisfy my special requests for a real expedition with a reasonable price.
I would highly recommend Benson Safaris Tanzania.
Thank you for great holiday!
Email Karen | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent 10 day safari with an experienced and informative guide
After much research, contacting other companies, and reading reviews, we chose Benson Safaris. Benson was very helpful, was quick to reply to emails and provided an itinerary that we were able to change to what we wanted. He offered up suggestions and was able to answer any questions we had. He even changed one of the hotels as our original selection was not up to standard. The safari more than lived up to our expectations as we saw everything we had hoped to see and more. We feel this was down to our excellent guide Goodluck who was particularly knowledgeable and had a sense of what would be where. He was friendly and professional and he took us to what we wanted to see including rare rhinoceros. Our 10 day safari was an amazing experience and I would recommend anyone considering a Tanzanian safari to get in touch with Benson as he offers up an exceptional service
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Email Karen | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience from start to finish!
On recommendation from a friend, we arranged our first ever safari with Benson and it was perfect! Benson was very attentive and quickly responded to all of my questions and requests. He even recommended alternative hotels for us in Arusha when he thought the one we were considering wasn't ideal. He also arranged a walking tour of Arusha for us the day we arrived which was great! Everything was seamless in our eyes. Our guide Peter was a perfect fit for us, very knowledgeable and has unbelievable eyesight!! The car was well maintained, spacious and the fridge was well stocked!
Overall the experience was beyond our expectations and I would absolutely recommend Benson to anyone looking for a safari company.
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Email Chiara | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Wonderful experience with Benson and his team
I travelled this august for three weeks in a long journey that touched numerous parks and cities of Tanzania, from Dar Es Salaam, across Selous, Mikumi, Ruaha, Sumbawanga, Katavi, Mahale Mountains, Mwanza, Serengeti, Natron, Ngorongoro, Tarangire and Arusha exclusively by land (not airplane).
The route had long stages, which were managed efficiently and on time.
Benson is an exquisite person, always smiling and very helpful.
He came to welcome us when we arrived at Dar es Salaam Airport (at 3.40 a.m.!) and even when we departed from Arusha three weeks later.
The guides George and Paul were available and attentive to our needs, always with kindness and helpfulness.
George also speaks Italian, in a good and understandable way. He is available to explain the behavior of animals seen during safari.
The team of the chefs always prepared delicious meals (I will never forget the goodness of the soups!) and the tents were always ready to use when we arrived after every full day of transfer, since they always came before us to the destination of each stage (and left every stage after us).
The tents were always clean and provided with camp-beds and blankets.
I definitely recommend this tour operator for your safaris!
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Email Kari | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Zanzibar + safari Tarangire, Ngorongoro and lake Manyara for family with three generations
Benson did great job on all sides of the arrangement, and more than lived up to our high expectations. He cooperates With Tahib at Zanzibar. Tahib is a really friendly and knowledgable guide. Tembo hotel and Amaan bungalows can both be recommended for accomodation. To arrange safari for three generations with age ranging from 9 to 75 could be challenging, but everything was well planned to please both children and adults. Safari itself was really nice, we saw lots of animals, and Peter was an excellent guide and driver, but it might be good to choose a time of the year witch is not as dry and dusty.
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Email Stian Holte | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
We were very well taken care of and accomodated in the very best hotels. No complaints so ever!
We were a family group of six, including grandparents and children, experiencing the adventure of our lives and we were very well taken care of by Benson Safaris guides. Zanzibar was wonderful, and our guide and chauffeur, Tahib, was most knowledgable and very helpful. He knew a lot about history, slave trade, spices and local places and took us privately on a most interesting tour in the narrow alleys of Stone Town, showing us the historic slave market and and the impressive food and commodity market plus a lot more. Very interesting and exotic to us Norwegians! The stay at Amaan bungalows in the northern part of Zanzibar was most enjoyable. We were swimming, walking on the beach, visiting the fish market and having a good time.
Our further journey included visits to the three safari parks, Tarangire, Ngorongoro and lake Manyara, and a couple of days at the Lutheranian hospital in Haydom where our daughter Kari is involved in a medical research project. A desolate place in the highlands where Masais, wrapped in blankets, a stick in their hand, are shepherding their meager cows and goats around in the semi dessert (while talking in their mobile telephone!), and people have to walk miles to fetch water. A hard place to live. Most impressing: the road up - extremely steep and curvy, consisiting mainly of dust and bumpy gravel. But our guide and chauffeur Peter, commanding his Landcruiser, was king of the road! He was taking us safaly up to Haydom and down again and showing us the wildlife reservates. He knew a lot about the animals as well as geography and history. The wildlife was exactly like what we have already seen on television, but exciting and more fun to see it with our own eyes and photograph it with our own cameras! Peter was a very competent guide and a likeable person. We shall miss him. I can recommend Benson Safaris travel services to everybody wanting to see Tanzania!
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Email Wyatt | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent planning and organization for the trip of a life time
I chose Benson Safaris to organize our safari because of the company's excellent online reviews and his prompt and thorough communications in initially planning the trip; every email I sent Benson was replied to the next day (which is immediate given the time difference between Tanzania and the USA).
We did a safari tour as well as a few days on the beach in Zanzibar. Benson lived up to his positive reviews and exceeded our expectations at every point in planning the trip.
Our safari guide, Richard, was with us for five full days and really made the trip amazing and special. He was knowledgeable, friendly, great to talk with, and knows the parks and the wildlife extremely well. He navigated us thorough the parks with a deft alacrity that kept the trip exciting and entertaining at every moment. Richard showed us all the big five and we saw few cheetahs with a kill and a pride of lions with a kill -- totally amazing to see. The safari camp accommodations were uniformly awesome -- the safari camps in the bush were surprisingly well appointed and the hotels in the cities were really posh, in every place the food was great.
In Zanzibar, everything was handled very well. Hotel pick ups and transit around the island was seamless and perfectly taken care of. Again similar to our safari experience, Benson placed us in great locations with amazing views, activities and staff.
Throughout all the planning, choosing various options for the trip, and then during the trip Benson was available and responsive and a model of superb customer service.
In short, if you are looking for an amazing trip in Tanzania and Zanzibar; Benson is your man. I would recommend him to anybody looking for a quality trip to see one of the most amazing experiences in the world.
Thanks Benson, you made this trip more amazing than we had expected.
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Email Wes | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Time, Great Adventure, Above what I Envisioned
We were going to Kenya to do some days of service for our company and I wanted to combine a safari as it has always been on my bucket list. I did quite a bit of research. Our travel agent gave me a couple of safari companies, but looking at them they were pretty expensive because they were out of country companies so the markup seemed high. I looked for local safari companies in Tanzania and came across Benson Safaris. We went with the luxury option, 7 day safari. The trip was above my expectations. Our guide, Peter, was knowledgeable, patient (let us stop whenever we wanted), had amazing eyesight (picked out things where we needed binoculars :) and fun. We went to three parks, Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngoronomo Crater. Plan to spend a lot of time traveling from one park to another if you do this trip. Benson, the owner, was very responsive with updates, organizing etc. I highly recommend. this company!
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Email Christian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The perfect adventure of a lifetime! Benson safaris will always be my go to for the best of Africa.
Benson Safaris absolutely made her trip the most memorable one. Their hospitality, and the willingness to make our trip extraordinary, will not soon be forgotten. Peter was your tour guide, and I hope that when we return again next year, he will still be. I would recommend Benson safaris, for anyone looking to explore Africa, and have the best safari possible. Thanks again for everything.