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Twinkle Star Tours & Safaris
- Located In:
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United States
Taiwan
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2017)
- Member Of:
- KATO, Eco Tourism Kenya & KTB
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $60 to $500 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Astrid | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect budget-safari
For a budget traveller, this is a great option!
Communication is easy, and everything is smooth.
We got a pick up in the airport to our hotel, and then another pick up the next morning to the safari-bus and then we got a ride to our airBnB in Nairobi when the safari ended.
All went according to plan.
There's a ration of water (1 bottle per person per day), but you can buy beverage at lunch and at the tent camp.
It's a good idea to bring snacks. The food provided is mostly local and delicious.
The safari drives were really amazing. And Stanley, our guide, made a great effort in finding all the cool animals.
Don't expect beautiful and luxurious accommodations. It's a cheap tour for people on a budget.
But expect a FIVE STAR adventure with amazing safari drives in the park and great service from the people!
IT
Email Marzia M. | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
welcome to the jungle
The safari itself has been fantastic. Good food, good driver/guide (Emmanuel), accomodation in tent as expected. We passed a very good time with the animals and the wild saving a lot of money. We only have had 2 misunderstanding with the hotel for the 1 night accomodation and for the way back to the airport, so we suggest to be preparated and maybe to organize yourself to save money and to avoid surprises. We suggest Twinkle star tour for your tanzanian trip.
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Email Magdalena | under20 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Two exciting and delightful days in Kenia
I would fully recommend you taking this tour operator, because it was a beautiful trip!
The communication with the driver was very good, there weren't any problems. We had a nice time together.
One day we went to Mount Longonott, the other to Crescent Island at Lake Naivasha. It was a very interesting experience. We saw giraffes, zebras, wilder beasts, gazelles and many more animals on Crescent Island. Totally would go there again and book the same driver/ company.
DE
Email Paul | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great tour, lots of impressive animals, unorganized schedule
We booked a 4-days tour through Masai Mara NP, Lake Naivasha with boat ride and Nakuro NP with 2 nights speeping in a tented camp and on night in a hotel.
lots of animals
great driver
unorganized scheduling
acceptable accomodations
respectful treatment of animals
It was a gorgeous journey and our driver, James, was one of the highlights beside the impressive animals! We saw nearly everything we dreamed of, elephants, lions, a cheetah, rhinos, different types of giraffes, a lot of different beautiful birds, hippos, monkeys, buffalos, antilopes... only the leopard we missed, but James gave his very best. We saw the most animals incredibly near, for example lions or giraffes with a distance of less than 5m or rhinos with less than 10m. But it never seemed to injure the animals freedom.
It was just a pitty, that we needed to discuss with different people so often about what be booked, what was included and how the plan for the tour was. For example we didn‘t have a walking/cycling tour, we didn‘t get 3l water per person per day but 1l instead, we didn‘t visit the Hells gate NP, we didn‘t see the promised baby elephant in an extra area, we didn‘t visit the giraffe center.
All in all, the tour was quite different than described. The tour was described very detailed with certain timeslots and in a specific order, but nothing matched to that schedule, which does actually not matter, but nobody told us so. So we expected for example to drive to the lake Naivasha, but arrived at the Masai Mara NP and wondered if we took the wrong tour bus by accident...
The booked accomodations were acceptable, espacially for the price we paid, ~400 US $ per person. The first one at the Masai Mara NP was a tented camp with a nice areal and quite delicious food. The second one at Nakuro NP was in the Hotel Citynax with very friendly personal. But in both accomodations it lasted ~20 mins until we get warm water in the shower. While the water in the hotel just got semi warm to still too cold ~20 celsius degrees. This hotel also didn‘t have the promised standard as descibed with „Gilden Palace Hotel or similar“.
Nevertheless it was a great experience and I would book another tour with your company again.
MK
Email Damian | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great Nairobi city tour, and amazing giraffe, elephants and bomas experience
Today we had an awesome tour of the city and the surrounding wildlife attractions. Our guide Paul picked us up from our accomodation sharp at the agreed pickup time (even a few minutes earlier), and continued to a pleasant drive around town in spacious and comfortable Nissan Serena. We visited the Giraffe centre, the Elephant orphanage and Bomas of Kenya, all of which were amazing experiences. Needless to say how transformative experience was to be kissed by a giraffe. But the important part for this tour was the fact that Paul knew exactly when were the overcrowded periods and managed to avoid all of them, thus providing us more time for bonding with animals and unique experiences. Because of the great efficiency we managed to visit some extra spots outside of our agreed schedule, like the Kazuri beads factory and the Karen Blixen museum. Had some super tasty burgers for lunch and ended the day with great show at the Bomas of Kenya. Paul was super knowledgable about the bomas (eng. Villages) and gave us a great tour inside the compound. We are extremely happy for choosing Twinkle Star Tours for this city tour and looking forward to our safari tomorrow.
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Email Hsuehmei Chuang | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
There are someting you must do in your life,this is the one - Safari in Kenya.
We took a 12 days Safari in August 2018 operated by Twinklestartours, it’s our first time to visit Africa, before we came. We have many questions about Africa such as Hot, dusty , unsecured, no good food ,,,etc, after the tour, it became a amazing journey which you must do in your life.
Kenya ,we’ll be back indeed.
TW
Email Si-Ming Lin | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It's the tour which I I'll certainly be back next year.
We did the 12 days Safari tour combined 3 days in Zanzibar Blue bay resort. The animals migratting is amazing, the sceneries are magnificent.
Tour operator offered us accommodations both in Masai Mara National Park or Serengeti National Park, those with good food, good service, good hospitality and good view,.
Our driver Jacob is a tough guy who always drive us to the best positions to view animals, once we even get as close as 10 meters from the Lion's nest.
Our tour agent James are so nice to greet us at NBO airport personally and let us meet his lovely kids and wife. James satisfied all our reguests and did more.
For whom are interested in Twinklestartours Safari, please refer to the Facebook Link below.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2010526122303305&id=100000378090675
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Email Muthu kumar | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very good Experience!
It was a very good safari. Mr. James was very responsive, always provided quick feedback at the stage of booking and he came personally to pick us from the airport. Safari was organized very well and made some good friends. Our driver was great - special thanks...
DK
Email Trine | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fast response both over phone and mail and very friendly, flexible and helpful staff
Communications went smoothly, however the car broke down a couple of times on the way from Nairobi to the Miti Eco Camp, but it got fixed everytime and people were friendly and helpful. The sleeping arrangements and food was also fine and the safari was great - James the driver knew everything about the animals and their habits and he stayed within respectable distance to the animals but still made sure we got so many different kinds to see.
all in all very satisfied and if you want to save a little money on the safari budget you can for sure go with this company.
DK
Email Jesper | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Super friendly staff and service minded. Very good safari experience
Staff was service minded and even picked us up in the airport a few days before the safari started. Safari was very good and we saw all the animals. Safari driver was very good at explaining about the animals, however he had a couple of technical issues with the car, which resulted in delays. Overall recommendable.