Safari Infinity
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2011)
- Member Of:
- Tanzania Association of Tour Operators
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $500 to $1,400 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The most amazing experience !!!
All with Safari Infinity was first class, all the promises were keeped and we had an amazing holiday in Tanazania. Kelly, our guide, is the best guide ever !!! Lucia and Simon were always pending of all the datails for our trips. Excellent company. Thank you guys !!!!
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65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
A wonder-filled adventure in Tanzania
The idea for a safari began when my wife received a brochure from her undergraduate college of a school-sponsored trip to Africa. She was surprised to learn that I was agreeable to go on a safari. After reviewing several companies online, we quickly decided on Safari Infinity because of their excellent response to our inquiry. Lucia was quick, informative and detailed in her responses. She was patient and understanding in answering our many questions and helping us design a trip that met our desires.
The safari itself was extraordinary. Lucia and Simon met us at our hotel in Arusha to preview the trip. We spent a relaxing day in Arusha to recover from our long flight. The day included visiting a local orphanage and shopping at an outdoor crafts market. Our Safari included visits to several national parks and a wilderness area, each with its own distinctive geography and assortment of wildlife. Kelly, our guide was remarkable in his knowledge of animals, the landscape, African culture, and information about the different tribes. His English was excellent and we had many enjoyable conversations. His ability to spot wildlife was uncanny. Among the highlights of the trip was seeing a mother lion nursing 3-week old cubs, a mother cheetah sharing a kill with baby cubs, and leopards hunting. We saw 20 cheetahs, a smaller number of leopards, rhinos, hippos, and more lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras and other wildlife than we could count. Our accommodations in tented camps were always comfortable, the staff friendly and helpful, and the food good. We ended with two wonderfuL days at a luxurious organic farm in the highlands. Before we left, we recapped our trip with Lucia and Simon who met us at our hotel. As I have shown pictures of our trip to friends, colleagues, and family, almost all of them have the same comment-"the trip of a lifetime." It truly was. My wife and I have traveled abroad extensively over the past 46 years and have dealt with many excellent travel agents. Lucia and Simon are among the best, if not the best. If we return to Africa, and I hope we can, they will be our first choice to arrange the trip.
Amazing, Lucia and Simon took care of us from the first email to the last goodbye
If anyone had asked me if I wanted to go to Africa I would have said I had given it no thought at all! Then my daughter was the lucky recipient of a Safari trip prize from Safari Infinity....from that moment we thought of nothing else. Lucia and her staff went above and beyond any expectations to ensure we had the best experience ever. Our accomodations were wonderful, breathtaking in some instances, and we had the best "safari guide" in Kelly. From the moment we exited the airport we were looked after, and on the drive to Arusha learnt many things about the area and the culture from Kelly. Once the safari was underway we were completely blown away but the sights, smells and wildlife we were exposed too. It's hard to describe the first time you set eyes on and elephant, see a lion pride feeding off a recent kill, we saw a tiny lion crawl into the exposed rib cage and the lioness and a young male lifted the rib cage up and there was this tiny little lion staring at us only a few feet away. Kelly made sure we covered as much area as possible and we saw so much wildlife, cheeta's, leopards, lions, I could go on and on but truly this was a great adventure. We stayed in Arusha for 5 days after our safari and STILL Lucia made sure we had all we needed and Kelly drove us to see different things. We were truly blessed to have this experience and if anyone asked me if Africa was on my list I would say that it is never out of my heart and long to see it again with Safari Infinity, a truly first class company. Thank you Lucia, Simon and Kelly for the trip of a lifetime
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Safari Infinity - a good experience
We planned a 6-day long Safari Infinity to Tanzania, and very much enjoyed it. It took us a while to finalize the itinerary, and Augustine was patient through the process. We were nervous about making full payment upfront, but didn't have any issues once we were there. I would have appreciated some more transparency in the pricing though. Eric, our guide, was courteous and knowledgeable - he carried books containing pictures and scientific names of the various birds and plants. He was accommodating of most of our requests; one our last morning in Serengeti I expressed the desire to see a male lion. Eric duly delivered - after quite a bit of driving around, we caught a glimpse of a male lion up close near its pride. Later in the trip, we witnessed a mother leopard and its cub eat a stork, and also a cheetah and cub take down a wildebeest calf. He also put us at ease about staying in tented camps - we were nervous about hearing the animals close at night, but it all turned out well. Our Toyota Land Cruiser was regularly stacked with water and soda, and the trip went very well.
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Email Abha | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An experience to savor for a life time
I had read about several tour operators,narrowed it down to 5 based upon reviews and my own budget and picked Safari Infinity. I am so glad I did that. To this date I am referring and encouraging any one who expresses a desire to go to Tanzania to go with Safari Infinity.
What impressed me initially the promptness with which my emails were answered. I swear they never sleep ! They were also very honest about what is possible. They did not try and steer me towards higher end or lower end options unlike another operator. They respected and valued all my wishes, answered all my thousand and one questions.
Lucia met me at the hotel the day we arrived in Arusha. She was very professional,attentive and personable. I felt at ease and knew that my family and I were in good hands. Eric our guide,driver and friend for the next 7 days was amazing. To the very last day it never ceased to amaze us how he could identify a blip on the horizon as a Lion. To be honest that blip was almost imaginary,so fleeting and so remote yet it materialised into a magnificent creature. If you do take a trip with safari Infinity, ask to go with Eric. You will not be dissapointed.
Ours was a 7 nite,private tour. we visited Tarangire, ngorongoro and central serengeti. Wish we could go again.
A true safari experience!
We picked Safari Infinity because they were giving us better lodges and Lucia was quick with her responses and very helpful in planning the trip as per our preferences. The experience was great, be it animal viewing, food, lodging or the guide. Lucia gets an extra star because she emailed my mom everyday about my well being as I was out of network for 5 days!
Our guide, Fazal was also great, he had so much knowledge about animals and predicted their behavior accurately and spotted so many of them for us.
We told our guide before we started what all were top of our priority list: Big Five and more cheetahs. He made sure we saw all that. We didn't mention we were keen on seeing a hunt, and I really regret that. We were stalking a cheetah as it was about to hunt, but had to leave as it was getting dark and we had to report to our camp.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An Amazing Trip....A Safari Company
Hi, we are an Australian family (mum, dad, boys aged 15,13 & 11 and 2 grand parents) that have just completed a 10 day safari with Safari Infinity. We visited Tarangire, Lake Maynara, central and western Serengeti and Ngorongoro national parks. First, I would like to say that the Safari was everything we expected and more. The Tanzanian people proved to be most hospitable. We saw the Big 5 and much more. The geography amazed us on how different it was between all the national parks.
We are so grateful we chose Safari Infinity. Lucia promptly responded to my many emails over the organisational stage, far better than any of the other companies I contacted. This was one of the main reasons we went with them.
Once the safari started we were in a 8 seater jeep. Our driver was Eric who basically became part of the family. He had great temperament in dealing with people, always smiling. His ability to position the jeep for prime location happened time and time again. His ability to find the animals and read their direction was incredible. We witnessed one live kill by a leopard, 2 failed attempts by lions, and found 3 other all ready completed kills. He was patient with our 1million photo shoots.
We stayed at the following accommodations (mix lodges and camps) and were very happy with them all, Lake Duluti, Oliver's Camp (Tarangire), Escarpment Lodge, Lemala Explorer Western Serengeti, Mbalageti Safari Lodge, Lemala Ewanjan, Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, and Mount Meru Arusha.
Thanks again Safari Infinity for the trip of a life time!
JP
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The absolute best
We had to plan our honeymoon less than a month in advance, due to issues with our work schedules, so we started to email several safari operators in Tanzania about 4 weeks before our planned departure. We were undecided about whether to visit both Kenya and Tanzania or only one of them, we had a bit more than 2 weeks in total for our trip and definitely wanted to see Zanzibar, so we asked for some options. We had never been to Africa before, so we were asking for advice on what we should not have missed, how to distribute the days between the safari and the time in Zanzibar, which parks would definitely be a must etc.
Out of all the replies we got, Lucia and Simon from Safari Infinity managed to beat their competitors by far, in terms of precision, extreme rapidity to reply to our emails (I forgot to mention that we live in Japan, there are 6 hours difference with Tanzania), kindness, willingness to help create a perfect plan for us, patience, professionalism and friendliness. We exchanged a lot of emails on a daily basis with them, asked tons of questions and always got precise answers, and eventually managed to create an itinerary that we thought would fit our needs perfectly. All of this during the peak season, so I guess it must have not been easy for them to book accommodations and internal flights with such a short notice. In about 2 weeks we decided our itinerary based on Lucia's suggestions, we got all our accommodations booked, all the internal flights booked as well, considering that these had to match the times of our flights to/from Japan. A few more emails to get some advice on vaccinations, visa, currency etc and we were all set to leave. And then our dream became true.
I do not have words to say how satisfied we are with this trip. It was the trip of our lifetime, it was our honeymoon, it was the most expensive trip we ever booked, it was ALL worth. For days after we came back I have been trying to find even one small tiny thing that went wrong during this trip, but I couldn't find any. I am not making this too big, the guys at Safari Infinity totally deserve it. I never heard about them before, I simply contacted them because of the excellent feedbacks they have on the internet. And now I am here to say it myself, they really are the best of the best. They genuinely care about making your trip a success, everything is cured in any detail, the guides they choose are excellent (more about this later), the accommodations are fantastic, and the entire organization is super. We have always been picked up and dropped off at the airports or other locations on time, we have even been given a local phone to make calls or send texts in case we needed it.
We arrived at Arusha airport where our guide, Kelly, picked us up. Not even 2 minutes after we landed we were given a great welcome with a very nice surprise. I do not want to spoil it here, go and find it yourself :) Kelly is possibly the nicest guide/driver I have ever met in my life, if Lucia and Simon were responsible for a superb organization and planning Kelly was responsible for a perfect delivery of the package. We spent 8 days with him from early morning to late evening, I have never seen him unhappy or tired. Kelly really enjoys what he does, sometimes he was even more enthusiastic than us when we spotted animals in the parks! He never ever ever loses his smile, he is calm, very knowledgeable, professional, customer-oriented, and a very fun person to be with. Kelly was definitely the person who made our safari an unforgettable experience, who made me take 43 GB of stunning pictures, who was always patient when I asked him to move the car to take a particular picture, or when we waited the entire day for the wildebeests to cross the river, the most beautiful picture I ever took in my life. Never did he lose his smile. He knows about every single thing that lives in the parks, he drives in the parks (god knows how he does that - in most areas there is absolutely nothing but bushes and trees) and is able to spots animals who are very far away and knows well the spots where it is more likely to spot animals. Also he knows the best places in the parks where to stop for a break with magnificent views and without other cars around. He is always calm, easy to deal with, but the best thing as I said is the fact that he really likes what he does. If you are on a safari with him you will immediately realize that.
Thanks to Kelly we had a lot of "private" safari shows (without other cars around), such as lionesses at a very close distance feeding their cubs, mom and baby rhino, leopards, cheetas and more. We saw all that we could possibly see, lots of close distance action and lots of excitement. We could not have asked for more. And sleeping in the parks with all those animals around.. it was such an amazing experience.. All the tented accommodations were fantastic, very comfortable and always with great food.
The second part of our trip was in Zanzibar, 1 full day in Stonetown (highly recommended) and 4 days in Nungwi, on the northern part of the island. In Stonetown we booked the city tour and the spice tour. Again, Safari Infinity put us in the hands of an excellent guide, Hamis, who made our short stay in this magic town very enjoyable. Hamis is a very friendly person, he smiles a lot (!) and knows everything in Stonetown and Zanzibar. I wish we had stayed a little longer in Stonetown, I loved the colors, the atmosphere and the crazy market. The spice tour was also a lot of fun, they are both half day tours. The Coffee House hotel in Stonetown was great, I loved the atmosphere so much. Finally we headed to Nungwi, always under the directions of Safari Infinity and their perfectly planned drivers and guides. We stayed at Hideaway Nungwi with an all-inclusive plan. White beach, new resort with beautiful rooms, a lot of relax and.. excellent food. The buffet was really excellent, plenty of choice and lots of variety. Great pool to relax and we loved the shisha bar after dinner. Relaxing on the beach was really the perfect thing to do after the safari experience.
I would recommend Safari Infinity to everyone, I am sure they are able to create the perfect itinerary for your needs. We appreciated their extreme flexibility to adjust things to our crazy last-minute schedules, their rapidity in responding to our emails (this is critical when you have such a short time to arrange everything), their precision and attention to the details (nothing, not even the smallest thing was left unclear), and, last but not least, their friendliness. Lucia and Simon are a beautiful couple, we met them when we arrived in Arusha and were so happy to see how friendly and pure-hearted they are. They made our honeymoon perfect, there were so many things that could have gone wrong or just "not perfect", but they did all they could to make our dream come true. And they did it. Thank you Lucia, Simon, Kelly and everyone at Safari Infinity, we will never forget this.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Honeymoon
A truly amazing honeymoon touring around Northern Tanzania. Safari Infinity was great at helping me plan the trip, Lucia was super quick to respond to questions and helped narrow down the best accommodation for our budget. Our guide was extremely professional and knowledgeable about wildlife and we managed to see the big five! I wish I could go on vacation with Safari Infinity right now!
CA
Email Jen'n'Donna | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A Fabulous Walking Safari
My mother and I visited Tanzania intending to climb Kilimanjaro, but had to change our plans at the last minute. With only a couple of weeks to spare, we went hunting for a less strenuous, off-the-track type of walking safari. Safari Infinity came through and put together an absolutely perfect itinerary. Without another tourist in sight, we hiked down the Rift Valley Escarpment and along a dry riverbed. Another walk down the Empakai crater was equally excellent, accompanied by the most beautiful, lonely country we saw in our entire 3 weeks tour. A canoe trip rounded things out, with fantastic birdlife. Lucia executed our every request, and she and Simon met with us afterward to discuss our trip and any concerns we might have had. Our driver George was superior; he was a courteous, well-spoken bird encyclopedia! We couldn't have asked for better, and would recommend Safari Infinity to anybody. Five stars!