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Wild Wings Safaris
- Offices In:
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United Kingdom
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2005)
- Member Of:
- SATSA & ABTA
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $232 to $1,987 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Isabel | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable
After spending many hours researching which company to use for our first safari in South Africa we decided on Wild Wings. They provided an amazing, flawless, and unforgettable experience!!!
Madi became our travel consultant and after numerous emails and a few phone calls we had a fantastic itinerary. Throughout the planning process she was extremely professional, friendly, and very patient! She arranged all the lodgings, transfers, safaris, tours, and national airfares. Madi made sure that everything was just perfect!
My husband and I started our journey in Cape Town. We stayed in Cape Town Hollow Hotel which has an excellent location and our room had an amazing view of Table Mountain! She also booked tours to Cape Point and Hermanus with African Experience. We then flew to Nelspruit for our three-night safari in Kruger (Skukusa Rest Camp) and our guide was Simon!!! He is just the best! Excellent guide with an extraordinary knowledge of the animals and birds in the park. His passion for nature is contagious. Simon was not only our driver and guide but he was also a wonderful cook…. with a great sense of humor; eating our meals with him was such a pleasure! He offered genuine individual attention and tried to cater to every want and/or need of each person in the group…. We couldn’t ask for more!!!
From Skukusa, Mishak from Gap Tours transferred us to Machaton Private Camp located in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve. This lodge is incredible! We felt so pampered by Lezel and her fantastic team… from the beautiful rooms, wonderful meals, friendly staff, and magnificent game drives. Their attention to every single detail was superb!!!
We were again picked up by Gap Tours for the very scenic Panorama Route drive tour. Our driver and guide, Mishak was very knowledgeable and passionate about the area and the animals. He even spotted several birds throughout the drive.
Our next destination was Johannesburg and Madi arranged a half day tour to Soweto and Johannesburg with Spurwing Tourism Services. This was a very interesting tour that provided us with a historical history of South Africa.
From there we flew to Kasane Airport and stayed at the Chobe Marina Lodge for two-nights. We had a beautiful room facing the Chobe River and did two spectacular cruises on the river (morning and night) that offered us a distinct perspective of the animal’s interaction with the water. We also did game drives and saw different animals from the cruise.
Final destination: Victoria Falls…. Breathtaking !!! We stayed at the Ilala Lodge which was within walking distance from the falls and you could see the falls’ mist from the hotel! Madi arranged for us via Wild Horizons a beautiful sunset cruise and a microlight flight (from Zambia) over the magnificent falls. This was an incredible experience!
Throughout our journey in South Africa Madi arranged for us multiple transfers and tours that were always punctual, reliable, and guides that were friendly and knowledgeable. We saw an incredible number of animals and birds... a lioness nursing her cubs, a hyena stealing a kill from a pack of wild dogs, a close encounter with a leopard sitting up on a branch with his kill nearby…. Just amazing and incredible sights!
Many thanks to Wild Wings and Madi for exceeding our expectations by providing us with an unforgettable experience!
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Email Jason Feldman | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best, best, best vacation we've ever shared as a family!
I spent a full month investigating every possible option to visit Africa for our family of 5, plus two friends joining us. What I eventually concluded was that our best choice in planning a complex holiday involving visits to three countries, including differing safari experiences throughout, was to work with Wild Wings Safaris. What convinced me, aside from the excellent reviews and experience planning complex itineraries, was my connection to Wild Wings' Clare van der Breggen who became our best friend and greatest wealth of insight through the planning process. From the very first contact, Clare made the experience as easy and pleasant as possible. Everything was either 'yes' or 'let's figure it out' - with nothing impossible and everything a suggestion of what could be as we made choices about spending two weeks in Africa. We considered many combinations of itineraries, but Clare kept me true to the vision of our family trip to experience Africa up close and personal. She helped weed out the hype and kept us focused on what we said would make us happiest. She helped us craft an itinerary that progressively allowed us to experience nature up close and personal, and even during one of the busier seasons, found openings in the most incredible accommodations and with the very best guides. Clare's communication, knowledge and support exceeded all of our expectations. Everything went off without a hitch... every transfer to and from, every check-in, every meal, every tour... to the minute - all of it was perfect... simply perfect! I have now shared our Wild Wings Safaris experience with everyone I know, and if you are reading this review, go no further, you found the perfect group to craft your own experience of a lifetime!!!
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Email Craig M Jackson | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfect Bucket List Trip
This was a bucket list trip with the entire family; it could not have been better. We spent 3 weeks of the most enjoyable travel for us who are widely traveled throughout the world over many years. All arrangements were made by Wild Wings, airport pickups, lodges and associated safaris, transfers between lodges and a terrific guide who at the end of our safari portion enthralled us with Cape Town, the western Cape, both inland and coastal the Garden Route from Cape Town to Knysna. Everyone selected by Clare at Wild Wings was aware and responsive to my need to use crutches thanks to her selecting arrangements that permitted me to enjoy every moment of our time in South Africa. Our guides made special effort to accommodate me and show us sights and places during road journeys of which we were totally unaware! I, and everyone in the family will recommend Wild Wings without reservation.
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Email Rajendran | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Starting to end well organised without any hitch
Prompt reply .every thing well planed and the overall experience was good
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Email Des | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable Trip
After doing some research and reading online reviews I contacted Wild Wings regarding their 5 day Best of Kruger safari. Gavin from Wild Wings replied to me immediately and promptly responded to any further questions I had. On the day of my arrival at Nelspruit Airport I was collected and brought to the gates of Kruger Park where I was met by Nicky who was to be our guide for the safari. The next 5 days were absolutely brilliant. We spent 2 nights in the Skukuza camp where our chef John provided us with great breakfasts and dinners and 2 days further north in Satara where Nicky herself was our own personal chef. The meals she made for us were fantastic aswell. Nicky was a brilliant guide with an excellent knowledge of the park, it's animals and plant and tree life. I would highly recommend Wild Wings for anyone looking to book a safari in Kruger. Everything went as smooth as it could have from my initial email to Gavin right up to being dropped off at Jo'burg airport by Nicky on my last day and all at a very reasonable price.
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Email Arnie | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful
Gavin of Wild Wings Safaris customized an itinerary for us based on our preferences. The safaris both at Kruger National Park (stayed at Skukuza camp) and at Mohlabetsi Safari Lodge (Balule Reserve) were great. Everything was well organized and we had no problems with accommodations, transportation, etc. A once in a lifetime trip for us.
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Email Ben | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wild Wings Safaris love what they do and it shows in their services.
Planning a trip to Kruger from 8000 miles away was pretty scary but Wild Wings Safaris made it very easy. They were very quick to respond to questions and worked with the dates we had available to put together a trip we will remember for the rest of our lives. Simon is very knowledgeable and his experience in Kruger is unmatched. We saw all big five animals multiple times and countless other animals. Even after guiding people through Kruger for so long he still gets excited about it. I would recommend Wild Wings Safaris in a heartbeat to anyone looking for an excellent Kruger experience.
Best Safari Ever !
We booked our " 5 Days Best of Kruger" and we were super happy ! Everything was organized very well and we didnt have to take care of anything else ! The Camps we stayed in were beautiful and the food was delicious !
The best of the whole safari tho was our Guide Simon- he did an awesome job !!! He left no effort out to show us what we wanted to see and thanks to him we were able to see so many awesome things ! His knowledge is amazing ( and I really asked the weirdest questions :D ) ! Besides that he is a very cool guy with a ton of funny storier :)
We will definitely come back to Wild Wings !
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Email Dave and Tracy | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Madi at Wild Wings Safaris is incredible!
This was the 2nd time we used Wild Wings and Madi. Madi is incredible when it comes to fitting all of your schedules into your dream vacation. Wild Wings will help you fit the time available with the type of safari you would like and into your budget.
We will be going back to South Africa and will use Wild Wings for our plans. You can't go wrong with Madi!!
Our Kruger trip exceeded expecations
Excellent info on the web page but the detailed tailoring was done by Clare who responded promptly to all of our last minute queries. We'd visited Kruger several times before but didn't want to drive nor to rely on catering at Satara camp in particular. So Nikki was our driver, ranger, chef and genial companion. She was irrepressible. Our transfers to private game lodges were prompt, efficient and comfortable. The lodges themselves, - Nottens and Kambaku- were wonderful. Quite different in their ambience but each offering high quality game viewing, great guides and, of course, really comfortable lodges offering far too much food and drink,- which out of politeness we couldn't turn down. Great value for money from Wild Wings. We'd warmly recommend them and will definitely use them again!