Lion King Safari Guides
Lion King Adventures
- Offices In:
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Canada
United States
Switzerland
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $200 to $1,115 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
Your request will be sent directly to the operator
If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
Email Bettina & Elias | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Service
We just came back from our Safari Trip to Tarangire Nationalpark, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti and Lake Manyara. We booked a luxury Trip and our experienced Guide Musa did everything to make it most comfortable and exiting for us. We enjoyed the whole trip, but if you compare the parks Ngorongoro and Serengeti are the best! It would actually be enough to visit these two parks, since all "important" animals can be observed here more than once. Our trip was well organized and we had to think of nothing, everything (food, drinks) was included. Our hotels were high standard, even the „tented lodge“ in Serengeti was luxurious. We had great food, even at the picnic in the parks we got a nice and warm meal. At the end of our trip our flight was suddenly canceled (from Air Tanzania) and reacommodated to another airport afterwards. Although the other airport was 1,5 Hours away, Our Guide Musa brought us there without further ado.
IL
Email Liana, Amir & Maya | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari with the perfect guide Gilbert!!!
We had an awesome experience with Lion King Adventures! Starting from my initial enquiry with Godwin and the lovely Pendo. They were easy to communicate with, via WhatsApp and e-mail, prompt in answering any questions that we had, and helped revise our itinerary numerous times.
We appreciated that Pendo coordinated all airport transfers, including from the airport to our hotel in Arusha, to and from the airport in our Zanzibar beach extension.
Our guide Gilbert was one of the highlights of our trip. He was extremely friendly, kind, knowledgeable, patient, helpful and professional. He amazed us with his ability to spot animals. Gilbert was happy to answer all of our questions and did everything he could to ensure that we had an incredible experience. With his help we were able to see all of the BIG 5, and so much more. We honestly felt like we stepped into a National Geographic documentary! Gilbert would point out things we didn’t even see, and on several occasions we were the first at some interesting sighting. This amazing man clearly has some sort of sixth sense when it comes to animals. His eyesight is incredible and he could see and identify tiny little blobs, barely visible to the naked eye. His ability to know where the animals are and more importantly, how they are going to behave was that made it so special.
We had a 5 day Luxury safari and went to Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater.
If you book with Lion King I promise you will not regret it!!
Thank You for an extraordinary experience and an excellent service!!!
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Email Rebecca | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing honeymoon!
Lion king made navigating our honeymoon a complete breeze. Starting from my initial conversations with Nick and Pendo they helped revise my itinerary numerous times to fully take advantage of our time in Tanzania based on very limited options flying from the US. Our guide Salehe was also truly amazing he was quick to teach us everything he knew about the wildlife and local culture. He also kept us on our toes helping to teach us some very basic Swahili. Every morning he had our jeep cleaned restocked and ready for the days adventure.
Booking a trip like this can be daunting when you don’t know much about the country or what to expect but Lion King really puts customer service at the top. Their responsiveness attention to details and meticulous planning lead to a truly memorable and amazing experience. Plus the hotels they selected for us were easily the best I’ve ever experienced on any vacation! Truly all once in a lifetime experiences
For those who may be worried about COVID testing and travel requirements lion king and Salehe made sure we had the tests completed for our return flights and even provided paper copies making traveling out of Tanzania super easy.
Would highly recommend lion king adventures for anyone considering a once in a lifetime safari experience
HK
Email Julio | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Kili dream
Organising this ascent for my parents, I conducted a pretty thorough research to make sure we get the best company. Looking back I can confirm that I found it and that it was a wise choice not to pick any company.
Ascending Kilimanjaro is a several day trip in an environment which is pretty rough. Saladin is the king of that mountain. I would need few pages to simply cover all the little attentions and details that him and his wonderful team has assembled to try to make this challenge as smooth as possible. Every details count as it is both a mental and physical effort. On top of that I was just impressed by the quality of food they manage to provide every meal in such a complex environment.
In terms of price Lion King are among the cheap one, a bit above the bottom price, definitely best value for money. Ask for Saladin!
CH
Email Jean & Chantal | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Small is beautiful, very good contacts with them, and quick answers
Ali our also French, English and Swahili speaking guide/driver knows a lot of history, animals and culture, long experience and humour. We went to Tarangire, Serengeti Ngorongoro, Manyara as well , still a lot of fantastic memories in our head , all this animals, just superb
LU
Email Lorenzo and Vladi | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
You feel special with lion kings adventures
The tour was very well organized. Pendo was very proactive to program our 5 days safari. The lodges were very good. The driver M. Goodluck has been very kind, flexible to our program and very knowledgeable about the animals and Tanzania in general. I really advice them.
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Email Joanne | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lion King Adventures was the best choice for safari tour!!!
We wanted to make a Safari trip happen this year, despite of the COVID situation. To do that, we had several criteria with selecting tour companies. 1st of course, is the itinerary that we wanted in our Safari. 2nd, the accommodations during the trip especially that we are traveling as a family with our 7yr old daughter. 3rd, reliability and reputation of the company. 4th, safety and COVID precautions taken. 5th, ease of back and forth communication with the company. That's how we chose Lion King Adventures.
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Email Elliot Skinner | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional and customer focused
We had an excellent experience. We saw an incredible variety of animals up close. The guide was very knowledgeable and personable. Our lodging was better than expected. In particular, the tents were very nice.
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Email Antonio Del Pozo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A dream come true
We are Angie (Puerto Rico) and Antonio (Spain) we live in the United States. We did an exhaustive research on the best safari companies in Tanzania for our vacation, finally we decided for Lion King Adventures and we couldn’t be happier with our decision. The experience was amazing!! They are very profesional and always working to make the experience as your personal choice. They pick you up at the airport, and since the first minute they care of every detail. We made the private safari and we felt spoiled 24 hours with Lion King. The transportation, the hotels, the game drives, everything was amazing, but our guide Osi ( Oswaldo ) made the difference !! He worked very hard and with all the passion of someone who loves his work to give us the best experience. we had the best encounters with the BIG FIVES, we saw a dozen Lions, dozens of elephants and giraffes, buffalos, hippos, and the most difficult: 3 leopards, and a couple of cheetahs right next to us. This Osi is amazing ! He can see an animal from kilometers. Always with a smile, making us smile every minute , extremely profesional and friendly. We could not have had this experience without him. What a great person and what a profesional and experienced guide ! We made a good friend and we’ll keep him in our hearts. We are planing to go back next year and we will definitely book our safari again with Lion King Adventure.100% recommended. Thank you Lion King Adventure for making this experience be part of our wonderful memories in life. .5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to this company and to our amazing guide Osi !!
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Email Alina | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excelent
A fabulous experience from the Lion King Adventures team.
One of the most important things that you have to know about them is that they offer an excellent service, you will not be disappointed.
Nick and Pendo helped a lot in building the itinerary at the beginning and arranged everything before the start of the Safari. They helped us in making the right choices for the lodges and adapted the schedule to our needs. Most of the companies are not so flexbile and they work on the "take it or leave it principle" whereas Lion King really wanted to listen and fulfill our needs. Great job!
Once we had that sorted out and we started the Safari, Abu (our guide) took the lead and he was as fantastic as Nick and Pendo. Again, very flexible, knowledgeable, he told us tons of stories about animals, safari or the history of Tanzania, really a joy to talk to him. He helped us with spotting the animals or the birds as well which made our life way easier. This guy was awesome!
As we took also a 1 day hike on Kilimanjaro we had the opportunity to meet with Saladin (our mountain guide and for sure our lead for the Kili trip) and again, a great person. Very knowledgeable, he shared tons of info about the mountain, how to climb Kili and about flora and fauna, we learned so much from him as well.
Overall these people are incredible! They try to satisfy all your requirements while keeping a good margin for them as well, the guides are giving 200% in sharing the knowledge and making sure you feel great during the journey from every aspect from driving, guiding to adapting the schedule when it's needed and always being flexible.
I have rarely had such a good and pro service from a company and I have rarely seen so many dedicated people in one place. Congrats to James, the owner of the company, to whom we gave one advice:Keep these people together!
Lastly:
- the car is well-equipped for the Safari and comfortable
- the food offered by Lion King during the safari is more than sandwiches, you get real hot meals, coffee, tea, water, beer
- the lodges have a good to excellent standard of service and certainly above what I did see in other places in Tanzania
- Abu washed the car almost every day, it was so spotless. We did not ask for it, but we were impressed by the fact that he did this.
- The only suggestion that I would make is to offer the possibility to have also 1 meal with local Tanzanian food (the food we got during the trip was very good and tasty but mostly European/US food and I was very curious to eat some Tanzanian food as well)
- there is little that I can say more, just use this company to have a wonderful time while in Tanzania, I for sure will come back to do a Kilimanjaro trek with them.