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Oakland Tours and Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2009)
- Member Of:
- Tourism Regulatory Authority (TRA) & Kenya Tourism Board (KTB)
- Tour Types:
- Customizable private tours and fixed group tours
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $130 to $320 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Andreas | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Flexible and good safarioperator
Oakland Tours and Safaris helped me to arrange safaries to Lake Nakuru, Hells gate, Masai Mara and Samburu/Buffalo springs. They were very helpful and flexible in arranging safari tours for me and they were very easy and nice to communicate with. They tried to do their best to find good solutions for me in accordance to my wishes, my economy and my time table. For example did I very much want to go to Samburu/Buffalo Springs. While other safari operators dismissed any option for these parks if I was not willing to pay a really high price, Oakland helped me to find and arrange a solution that made it possible for me to do this safari within my budget.
So to some comments on each park:
Hells gate: I really liked this park. You can do the safari by yourself by bicycling or walking in the park. It is really different felling than being in a car. It is a unique experience to watch animals from the ground with no fence between. I had for example zebras just 6-7 meters away and a giraff just 15 meters away. The landscape is also special and very nice: it is like walking in the movie Lion King. The price for doing safari here is also much lower than in other national parks. I saw a lot of common zebra and warthogs, a big heard of buffalos, in addition to baboon, hyrax, thomson's, grant's, eland, impala, hartebeest and giraffe.
Lake Nakuru: It is a nice park - epesially the view from the baboon Cliff over lake Nakuru is stunning. Because the van i was going with started from Nairobi in the morning and would continue to another place in the evening the time we got in the park was in the middle of the day. To see especially the carnivors it is probably better to be there in the morning and evening. But just before we were to leave we saw both lion and striped hyena. We saw also animals like rothschild's giraffe, buffalo, waterbukk, zebra, impala, eland, hyrax, thomson's, grant's and baboons. White rihno did we see far away. There were unfortunately also very far away.
Massai Mara: Unfortunately I was there a little bit to late to see the big migrations. But even though, we saw a lot of different animals. We saw 10 different species of antilopes/gazelles and in total 22 different species of Mammals. The hightlight was probably to the lions and cheetahs just some meters from the car. We saw several different groups of lions - many of them moving around. I had 3 days for this safari, including transport to/from Nairobi. But the first and last day we just did a couple of hours with game driving because the transportation to/from Nairobi took so long time. So it was mostly the second day that was the day of time for game drive. The park is also quite big and therefore it takes a long time to transport between different parts of the park (for us for example the mara river was very far away). I would therefore suggest to focus on getting whole days in the park, rather than just morning/evening drives. We were also 8 people in our minibus, which in my opinion was too many becuase it gets quite crowded. I would therefore suggest that one ask to not be more than 5-6 people in the minibus one is traveling with. The second day we also got away from our camp late because the lunch we were going to have was not made ready.
Samburur/Buffaloo springs: A very nice parks that have a landscape and nature that is quite different from the more popular southern parks; it is much more dry. I saw all the "special five" (grevy zebra, oryx, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe and somali ostrich). Not at east the gazelle called gerenuk is very faschinating: it has very, vey slim legs and neck and it stands on just its hind legs and eats from bushes and trees. I also saw the lions very close to the car (these male lions have just a very tiny mane because of the heat) and a lot of elephants. Can really recommend to do a trip to these parks in the northern parts of Kenya.
Email Onsongo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
World Class service as always
The hotel that was recommended to me by Oakland exceeded my expectation. The booking was seamless and I enjoyed the experience of having all the billing and booking handled by Oakland. The communication was timely and complete and assisted me in planning my trip.
Email julius | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
it was smooth and on point.
they exceeded may expectation despite me making last minute changes to the trip.
Email justus | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
excllent reception,guidance and arrangements were properly done. Follow up was appreciated.
communication was nice, welcoming and clear.the service was okey. the process met our expectation.one can make a repeat
Email Gidion | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Convenient
Communication is effective through phone calls, email & Whatspp. Good customer service with good customer based needs addressed.
Your safari is safe and enjoyable in the hands of Oakland Tours, friendly and respectful drivers who can adjust to reschedule when need arises.
perfect trip ever with Oakland Tours anf Safaris
The communication was good, they had the best services and I would like to complement them for that,amazingly their standards are up and classic , everything about them is excellent.Good work Oakland Tours and Safaris I enjoyed every moment.Good joblL
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Email Luis | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional, helpfull, excellent service
What can I tell about Oakland Tour...
They were allways helpfull, excellent service, beyond my expectations.
I made a safari with a group of friends and it worked really good, it is something I´ll never forget.
I send my congratulations to the team for such a professional work.
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Email Paula Pinto | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Visit Kenya with the best!
Lovely Kenya was a wonderful surprise and and exceeded all my expectations!
I travelled to Kenya with a group of friends and everybody agreed Oakland tours staff made it possible for us to have the time of our lives.
Everything went perfectly, from the emails exchange prior to our arrival, to the day we arrived late and sweet Felistus was patiently waiting for us in the hotel and to Safari guides, tought on the outside but soft and caring inside their lovely Kenyan heart, with their endless knowledge about the animals and the nature.
We learnt a lot daily, saw most of the animals and we felt safe throughout our trip, which is one of the most important aspect when one is on holiday and just want to relax and enjoy the moment.
I strongly recommend this company and will definitely travel with them next time I go to Kenya or Tanzania as I am certain I will be in good hands.
The expression Hakuna matata is perfect to describe the holidays when in hands of Oakland tours and the only bumps will be the ones on the safari roads :=) ( still recovering from my kenyan massage ;) )
Asanti Sana!!
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Email Carlos Melo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
very professsional and great attention to detail and customer satisfaction
All in All I was very satisfied with Oakland Tours and their staff members. Felistus was very professional in the way she dealt with all the comunication prior to our trip, and she met us uppon our arrival at a very late 11.30 p.m at our hotel in order to close the last details.
We organized 2 safaris with them, with the second one being tailor made, with a long trip down to Malindi. All went flawless and Kenya largely exceeded our expectations.
On our last day in Nairobi, we booked for the third time, a day with Oakland Tours again, and had a visit to the Sheldrick orphanage, Girrafe center, Karen Blixemn and Nairobi National park, with dropoff at the airport.
So, i will definitly be using their services again, and will strongly recommend them to my friends, or anyone looking for a tour operator in Kenya.
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Email Frederico | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great service
All in all it was a great experience. I was recommend to Oakland Tours by a friend of a friend and can only say everything exceeded my expectations. Great service and communication, our guides were wonderful, all our requests were met and pricing was more than fair ( taking to account other offers from similar safari agencies). Highly recommended. A special thank you to the agency's head, she treated us like friends and made us most welcome and eager to return and use her services once again.