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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Honeymoon!
Compass Odyssey put together and executed the most amazing trip for my wife and I this past April. I contacted Darren online about 4 months before our trip and after getting to know what we were looking for, he put together an itinerary. We tweaked it a bit over the course of a few weeks and we set to go. We set off in late March and over the course of 16 days, we visited Cape Town, Sabi Sands, Kruger National Park, Zambia, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Botswana (Chobe and Okavango Delta) and we ended our trip with a full day in Johannesburg learning all about the history of South Africa (highly recommended).
The trip was everything that we could have asked for and more. Every thing went off without a hitch including our guides, flights, transfers, hotels, at home stays and more. We stayed at 6 different places, saw 6 countries and had 10 different flights and everything went as smooth as we could have asked for. Darren and his wife were available at all times, via email or phone and were simply great. The trip was both stunningly beautiful, relaxing, but also very educational.
I wouldn't hesitate for a second to recommend Compass Odyssey to friends and family, or to book with them again. They were amazing and made our trip as great as we could have imagined!
Cheers!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome, the best experience I've ever had!!!!
The communication was clear...everybody understood each other. The service was out of this world; nice people, went above & beyond to help. I didn't know what to expect but it was better than I ever imagined. The safari tour was better than I expected. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will recommend it to all of my friends. The tour drivers were two of the best and nicest people I have ever met. Definitely two of the best tour guides/drivers I've had. Will definitely come again and will ask for Aneal & Mohammed!!!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent service
Good day, just want to take this opportunity to congratulate Solaris Tours and Safaris for a unforgettable tour and the precious memories build on our 10 day Kenyan safari holiday. The tour was professionally planned and conducted in each and every way imaginable and the fact that we will not use any other tour operator, speaks for itself.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Good organisation, careful driver, excellent guide
Robert organised the perfect Ugandan trip for our small group of three, collecting us from the guest house in Entebbe, driving us to the Engagi Safaris lodge on Lake Bunyonyi, taking us for a perfect day’s gorilla tracking, then up to Queen Elizabeth National Park. He set up a three-day trek into the Mountains of the Moon for us then took us back to Entebbe after a day of chimp tracking. Engagi is a small, family-run group – and all the better for being small.
Robert has many years of experience in the tourist sector and seemed to know the best guides and contacts in all the parks we visited. He was helpful in the planning stages and tailored the trip to our budget. He's the best kind of guide himself, not just knowledgeable and helpful but flexible, letting us adjust the itinerary to suit even when the trip was underway. He’s also a careful driver.
I don’t believe we could have had a better organised and executed trip to Uganda than we had with Robert and Engagi Safaris. Highly recommended.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Experience of a lifetime! Great tour operator, excellent value for money, good for solo travellers
Firstly, i found the price of this tour really reasonable, especially since i was travelling alone and wanted to go with a group to keep the cost down. There were only 6 people in our tour, so loads of room for everyone to see from the van. This wasn't the case for other tours we saw on the road which were packed like sardines. Everything went as expected, and we had the best game day at masai mara where we saw 4 of the big 5. Peter, the tour operator at Flash Mc Tours was lovely when my plans changed and so friendly. I ended yup stayed in much nicer accommodation than i expected on one pf the stops due to goodwill from the hotel owner, so felt like a real treat. I would highly recommend this tour as you see the best of everything.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Perfectly organized!
The best way to have a cheap and great safari.
The company has many requests for shared safaris, they match travellers so they can provide a cheap safari for any period you need. Everything very well organised!
When in the national parks our guide was very helpful and was constantly connected to the radio, to drive us promptly to any interesting animal that was spotted.
I recommend this company!
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent guide and unforgettable safari
Bariki was very responsive before our trip and gave good advice on the itinerary. The logistics was perfect, great food and everything worked perfectly. He really listened to our needs during the safari: we did not want to see everything but to spend a bit of time in quiet places juste watching animals and it is exactly what he did. Super nice guide and team.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Kenyan holiday - excellent service and staff
I cannot rave enough about the professional, friendly and helpful service received from Somak in Mombassa. Somak provided our hotel to airport transfers - staff were unbelievably professional, gave us a breakdown of the ride, valuable tips about travel in Kenya etc. - so much more than an average pick up /drop off would do. In addition, we arranged a last minute full day Mombassa tour with them - not only were they accommodating- they gave it to us at a great price. The best part about this company - its incredible staff. They are friendly, knowledgeable and nothing is too much trouble (even walking around with us for hours in the rain)! Thank you - you made us feel like rockstars!!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Mt. Kilimanjaro trekking
Everything was organised through our constant telephone and email contacts. Duncan is one of the best travel agents I have dealt with. He organised and supervised over everything. He even accompanied me from Nairobi to Moshi to check over everything before my departure. Once in Moshi he handed me over to his colleague and made sure I was comfortable in the hotel. The team of : guide, cook, helper, 2 porters were superb. The guide Shafii is very experienced and especially good in understanding your pace and knowing better than yourself how much you need to eat, what you have eaten and your energy levels. The cook was outstanding. He prepared elaborate and specific kcal dishes according to the need of the day. I am very pleased with the special 1 to 1 service I was given and Duncan was personally there and then his colleague Njeroge, supervising on me.
KW
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Safari Thank you tony
we did 4 nights/ 3 days safari in chobe, the safari was really fun and tony was very knowledgeable and helpful.
highly recommended