Easy Travel & Tours
- Located In:
- Size:
- 50-100 employees (Founded in 1987)
- Member Of:
- ASTA, TATO & TTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $200 to $320 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Vaish | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The absolute best tour group.
From the time I was matched up with Lizbeth as my tour operator, to the day we concluded our trip, the service provided by Easy Travel was unlike any other. Easy travel offered competitive prices for quality accommodations. We did a 3 night / 4 day safari and had an unforgettable experience. We stayed at the Serena Lodge in Arusha, the Tortilis camp in the Serengeti and Serena lodge in the Ngorongoro crater. Everything from beginning to end was amazing. Our driver, Richard, became more life family. He was knowledgeable, kind and friendly. We spotted the big five and even saw a kill. Richard was very keen on us seeing as much as possible in the 4 days we were there. Thank you, Lizbeth and Richard and the team and Easy travel, for the best experience.
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Email Lynn & John | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Memorable 25th Wedding Anniversary
We decided for our 25th wedding anniversary to do a safari in Tanzania. After reading numerous comment/advice on TripAdvisor I sent a well thought out email of what we were looking for to 10 different tour operators all from my research, 1 year in advance of our intended travel date. Out of the ten I received 3 replies over a 6-week waiting period. After weighing the pros and cons Easy Travel came ahead. Our contact Lizbeth was the first to reply and I got a very good vibe from her right away. Throughout the whole process of tweaking our itinerary as well as sound advice and her valuable expertise it was a very smooth encounter. We settled on a perfect itinerary of 13-day itinerary including a hot air balloon ride as well as flying from Northern Serengeti back to Arusha.
Upon arriving in Arusha, we were met by our driver/guide with a wide grin from ear to ear. Everest Mboya set the relaxing mood right from the start. Upon our late arrival to African Tulip hotel, we were overwhelmed with our bed decorated with rose petals, nice touch!
As noted, in previous comments for safaris your driver/guide determines the outcome of your adventure. Everest is one of the best in our opinion, his knowledge, politeness, attentive manner, sense of humor, flexibility and his interaction with us. His skills as a guide and network of fellow guides (with whom he was in constant contact over the radio) ensured we had a fantastic time. His head was constantly moving to see things we would have completely missed. We were fortunate enough to see 4 migrations across the Mara River, the last crossing being the most spectacular about 2000 wildebeest. One day we had a picnic lunch right beside the hippo pool!
Loved the hot air balloon ride with Miracle Experience. They offered us coffee while up in the balloon, champagne on the ground and bush breakfast with even a cake for our 25th.
We stayed at 3 of the Tortilis camps (owned by Easy Travel), one lodge at the crater and one other tent camp. Spacious tents with 4 poster beds, private bathroom/shower. It was great to hear Wildebeest outside your tent as well as other animal sounds. Staff were great going above and beyond to respond to our requests. Nice touch on staff singing goodbye song in Swahili on each departure at tent camps.
I could go on forever and cannot say enough about Lizbeth and Everest they went above and beyond, listened throughout the whole adventure. Kudos to all the camps, they were top notch.
Thanks for making our 25th anniversary most memorable!!!!
Mama Twiga & Papa Timba
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Email MIke and Helen | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime
Norah helped us so much - from refining our choice of the best time to visit, answering all of our questions, and selecting a guide - Adrian - who was a delight to be with. He has an excellent understanding of all the many different wildlife we saw and how to find the best time and place for viewing. He also has a good sense of humour which made the trip great fun for us. He made sure that our needs were well met every day on the game drives and at the lodges and camps where we stayed.
We saw many animals very close up without any stress or disturbance to them thanks to our very skillful guide.
The highlight of seeing the crossing at Mara River was spectacular - well worth waiting patiently for the second afternoon. Adrian’s skill came to the fore again when he was able to get us right to the edge of the riverbank to watch the wildebeest plunge in, swim across, and leap out right in front of us, all accompanied by their desperate calling and frantic scrambling.
We can recommend this safari trip with Easy Travel without any reservation- it was a pleasure travelling with them - a truly memorable experience!
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Email Jeff | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our Wonderful Picture Safari Tour
In summary, we rate our engagement with Easy Travel as excellent. We will highly recommend and promote Easy Travel to our friends, family, and others who have a desire to travel to Africa and participate in a photo safari. I would like to thank and compliment Easy Travel for the tour package that they put together for my wife and I. The points of interest that they chose for us were phenomenal and our tour guide Adrian’s execution could not have been better. We saw much more than what we could have ever imagined and it exceeded our expectations. This made the sometimes long days and demanding roads that we had to travel an afterthought. We stayed at a combination of both very well-appointed resort properties and tent camping grounds or glamping which provided a nice variety of accommodations.
We engaged with Easy Travel about six months before our travel date. Lightness was our customer service representative. Her professionalism, promptness, and attention to detail built trust and confidence that we had chosen the right tour company to work with for our trip.
Thank you again Easy Travel for the wonderful experience that you provided for my wife and I.
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Email Miale | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Breathtaking Wildlife in Tanzania with Easy Travel & Tours
If you have never done a safari and are looking for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, this review is for you!
We were lucky enough to have friends that experienced safaris over the past few years, and they recommended Easy Travel & Tours with Adrian as our guide. We are blessed to have Adrian, who has taken people in and out in Safari for the past fifteen years. He has made memories that will truly last a lifetime.
Adrian was kind, informed, and very patient with us. He had an answer to every ridiculous question we had and was extremely accommodating. Not to mention he must have eagle eye vision, as he could spot leopards in trees from over a kilometer away; we saw six plus leopards! Many people we spoke with never saw a single leopard! He was great at finding all the animals we wanted to see and was also a terrific photographer.
Easy Travel & Tours also arranged for us to take a hot air balloon ride through Serengeti Balloon Safaris, another experience we will never forget and highly recommend!
If you are considering a safari, which you should if you are able, we highly recommend working with Easy Travel & Tours and requesting Adrian!
The most important person in this Tanzania safari adventure tour is the great tour planner, Lightness, who has made our late honeymoon one of a kind and more than all we ask or imagine.
We want to say " Asante Sana" to Lightness, Adrian, and the rest of the crews.
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Email Michel | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great company, very serious with good knowledge and good recommandations to adapt your safari
6 day safari
We did a 6 day safari with the agency following the recommendations given. We made the choice to start from the north of the Serengeti to see the migration, then the center of the Serengeti to finish with the Ngorongoro reserve.
Thanks to our guide Jamal who has a great experience we saw many animals and had a fantastic time.
Lizbeth organized our safari and made proposals, everything was perfect with quick responses. Due to the covid we postponed our trip several times, Lizbeth had a follow-up of our project for more than two years.
If you wish to go on a safari in Tanzania we can only recommend the agency which has a long experience and is very serious.
We stayed 5 nights in tent camps, they are very well equipped tents with all the comforts of a lodge. The vehicle is also well equipped and there are cold drinks available every day. For the photos, Jamal always knew how to place himself in the right place and allowed us to experience fantastic moments and take exceptional photos. We also learned a lot about the life of the animals in the reserve.
We preferred to limit ourselves to these two reserves and saw practically all the animals, the agency offers other routes or several reserves, it depends on your time and your budget, you can follow the advice of the agency with confidence .
Have a good trip.
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Email Cathy | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari with Easy Travel!
Looking to organize a safari in Tanzania? We did this experience in the spring of 2022 for a trip in July 2002, and we know how time consuming it is to choose the agency, the route, the type of safari and accommodation. Back from this fantastic trip, we are delighted to have made the excellent choice of Easy Travel, a local agency, with a very long and very professional experience.
THE PARKS: According to the agency's proposal, we visited 4 parks in six days of the program, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire, at the beginning of July. We were 3, two adults and a teenager. It's intense, but it's worth visiting these 4 parks (to be precise: 3 parks and a conservation area, the Ngorongoro), they are very different from each other. We had hesitated to visit only three of them, and to sacrifice Lake Manyara, but it has the advantage of cutting the route before driving to the Serengeti (chaotic roads). We are glad we spent two nights at the Serengeti, it was worth it. And we really liked Tarangire Park, which many visitors mistakenly miss. In short, the program offered by Easy Travel was excellent.
OUR GUIDE: We were accompanied by Gerald, a very cool guide, with 20 years of experience; thanks to him, we have lived magical moments. In terms of wildlife, we saw an extraordinary diversity of animals (lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, hyenas, giraffes, zebras, hippos, rhinos, monkeys, ostriches, gazelles, impalas, wildebeests, eagles, vultures, toucans and so many others...). Gerald not only has eagle eyes, he also has an in-depth knowledge of the animals' way of life and their behavior. In addition to his immense knowledge as a wildlife guide, Gerald is also an experienced driver, which is reassuring on the rocky tracks where many jeeps suffer.
THE ORGANIZATION: To organize our trip, we were in regular contact at Easy Travel with Lizbeth, who was also very professional. She was always available to answer our questions, and sent us a very useful checklist to prepare for the trip, especially with regard to formalities and health.
ACCOMMODATION: We have chosen a formula offered by Easy Travel, namely a glamping formula, tent accommodation, but all comfort (large beds with thick mattresses, shower, "lounge" area). Advantage: proximity to nature (hear wildlife at night), while having an excellent level of comfort. Three of the camps (Tarangire, Serengeti, Lake Manyara) are located inside the park, an important factor in maximizing the chance of seeing animals at the best times. The chain that owns these camps is called Tortilis Camp, and these accommodations are truly amazing. The teams that manage them take great care of their guests, and are super friendly. Security is also top notch. In Ngorongoro, part of the money donated to the camp is used to finance the school in a nearby Masai village.
THE ASSESSMENT: There are a hundred agencies offering safaris in the great parks of Tanzania, with different levels of services. We obviously have no point of comparison, but Easy Travel is really an excellent agency, very reliable, with a clear ethic and the constant concern that its customers are satisfied. We highly recommend her.
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Email Simon | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime
We did the 7 Days Mara River Migration Safari at the suggestion of Kabwe who was absolutely the best at what she does. She helped us through the booking process every step of the way and checked in with us throughout our Safari. Her professionalism and expertise made our trip the best it could possibly be. Kabwe listened and understood our needs and made sure we chose the right safari package. I would highly recommend Kabwe to help with your booking needs. As if that wasn't enough, we were fortunate to have been assigned Ombeni as our driver guide, who is simply the best in his profession. Ombeni was not only fun to be with, but he also served as a valuable educator to help us understand all the animals and landscapes we witnessed. He is clearly an intelligent and experienced guide and was able to answer every question we threw at him. It's quite possible he knows everything about everything. He also has a vast network of friends and colleagues in the park who he is in constant radio and telephone communication with to ensure we reached important sightings in time (e.g. wildebeest migration, cheetah hunting/eating a gazelle, lion cubs hiding in a ⁰bush, and even the rare black rhino). He also somehow had the uncanny ability to always be in the right place at the right time for us to bare witness to all the wildlife we could have dreamed of. The experience we had with him was unreal. We started the trip as clients and ended as family. We will be recommending both Kabwe and Ombeni to all our family and friends as they were instrumental in making this trip a lifelong memory.
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Email Vega | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exceptional service and an unforgettable safari
The Easy Travel family has truly given us a trip of a lifetime. From the first point of contact to the last, Easy Travel treated us with care and worked to ensure we would get the best experience possible.
Kabwe is the most patient, helpful and courteous safari specialist who worked tirelessly to give us the best designed trip for our needs. During the planning stages, she offered prompt and insightful suggestions and answered all our questions via email and Whatsapp, which was very convenient. Her dedication is evident through her timely and detailed responses that helped clarify our questions and concerns. We arrived at JRO in the middle of the night. but she was still available to help us as we encountered some issues. She kept in touch with us during and after the trip to check in with us. Her dedication to customer satisfaction is tremendous.
Ombeni was our driver-guide for the 7-day Mara River Migration Safari. His expertise, communication and dedication were exceptional. His experience and network of colleagues gave us an advantage to be able to see the wildebeest crossing multiple times. His binocular eyes were able to spot and find us so many animals, it was unbelievable. He was flexible and worked with us to focus on what we wanted to see and do. Each day topped the last as we continued to see the amazing wildlife and beauty of Tanzania. By the end of the week, we were family and sad to part.
Easy Travel delivers above and beyond expectations and we would highly recommend them to anyone considering travels in Tanzania. Asante sana Easy Travel!
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Email Christine | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
10 Days Safari in Tanzania
My family and I spent a wonderful 10 day safari organized by Easy Travel. Even the communication to plan the trip was a pleasure. Lightness answered all my many questions accurately and professionally within 1 day, in a most endearing manner, and she organized a wonderful tour for us according to our wishes.
We went to Arusha and Tarangire National Park, then to central and northern Serengeti and in the end to the Ngorongoro Crater. It was our driver-guide Dennis who made this long safari one of our best holidays ever. He is unbelievably knowledgeable regarding wildlife, all the animals and their different ways of living, but also regarding the country and its people. Driving the car the whole day, he safely mastered most difficult streets, and he spared no effort in order to show us as many different animals as possible. He really had long and exhausting days, but he never let us feel that. He also was a most pleasant company and he took very well care of us.
One of the most stunning events we observed was the great migration of the wildebeest in Northern Serengeti, and here the highlight was their crossing of the Mara River and the capture of an unhappy wildebeest by a crocodile. Apart from that, we saw many lions (including one unsuccessful hunt), herds of elefants playing with each other, leopards lying in the trees, many different antelopes, hippos, ostriches, zebras and, and, and... It was an unforgettable experience to see all the animals in nature and to enjoy this wonderful landscape. The long game-drives never became tiring because we were always busy peering for animals and enjoying to observe them.
We also did two walking safaris accompanied by an armed ranger which was a wonderful experience, too.
We were very comfortable in the camps (comfort style), where we were always welcomed very warm-heartedly, sometimes even with traditional african songs sung by the staff.
We can highly recommend travelling with Easy Travel, and of course with our excellent driver-guide Dennis!