IT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Marvellous
very good tour operator, friendly guide, eccellente expetience!
US
50-65 years of age
Completely out of this world. Amazing loved every bit of it.
Mr. Tom was easy to work wit and understood all our needs. Quite truthful and amazing communicator.
DE
Perfect Safari Tour to Selous and tours/transports at Zanzibar
Very nice communication, all questions answered quickly. Fair prices.
Our Safari-driver - Amani - was excellent. Drove perfect, knew (nearly) everything about animals and plants. Due to bis experience we saw four of the big five (and rhinos can not be seen at Selous).
Paka also arranged a perfect spice tour and tour to Prison Island with german speaking, great guides and transports at Zanzibar with very reliable driver.
Everything worked out fine.
CA
Everything was perfect!
Our safari tour was exactly as outlined by Maturaf - the drivers were always ready and waiting when we arrived. The accommodations were wonderful and the food was excellent. We saw many animals in our short 3 day safari, and even managed the 'Big Five' on the first day! The travel plans were busy, but allowed us to see a lot of things in a short time span. When we were in Zanzibar, we were left to book our own tours, which was ok, but an additional cost to me. It would be nice if a couple of tours were included in the tour price. Otherwise, the service, tour and experience was top rate! Thank you! Asanti!
MX
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Kilimanjaro & Safari Experience
I got quotes from roughly 20 tour providers before my trip and It Started in Africa's prices were unbeatable. The level of attention that they provided and the professionalism of the drivers/porters/chefs/guides and support crew far exceeded our expectations. Our climb to Kilimanjaro was incredible, given the knowledgeable and supportive crew that led us. I definitely recommend them for the Kilimanjaro or Safari, they are a local company and provide a far better service than their international agency competitors.
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our short notice safari experience
We decided one week before departure to add 4 days of safari before starting the business trip in Jo'burg.
I googled for a short trip and found The African Welcome Safaris. One short mail and within minutes Kathi Simon from Safari Bookings contacted me. It took us less then 24 hours to settle everything. Despite a public holiday in SA and weekend on top it went so quick!
We took off to Hoedspruit and there started the magic. We enjoyed it very much. Kapama Buffalo Camp was incredible and met our expectations 150%. We will most likely recommend Safari Bookings and Kapama to our friends or might even return with our grownup children.
RU
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fantastic Safaris is the fantastic agency
My experience in Tanzania with this agency was fantastic! Abdallah arranged the perfect tour for us, all the accommodations he chose for us and also the itinerary were great. The tour was very well organised in time. The guide was really professional and shared all his knowledge about nature with us. Fantastic Safaris is the fantastic agency for your safari.
IL
An amazing friend
Amazing....a real friend in Zanibar on a
I was there a week ago and I met a wonderful person who runs it.
First he is very kind and flexible and he knows the island very good.
I found unexpected friend who was there for me in a case of emergency.
I was in the airport and felt bad and he came for me. Even I took his tours few day before and he was there with me until I felt well. .for few hours and he didn't charge for it.
I really felt lucky to know him
GR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent experience! Professional, friendly, reliable
Go with them!
We traveled to Tanzania for safari in August 2015 and we had an excellent co-operation with It Started in Africa. We had a detailed preparation a few weeks before the trip, via e-mails. Kind and friendly, ready to assist you in anything you want. We had an amazing private, tailor-made tour. The guide was a perfect man, the car reliable and the whole staff very professional. I had the chance to meet them when I visited their office in Arusha for some arrangements.
One more thing I would like to say is that, it is not all about money, something that I really appreciate. When you go such a trip, you need reliable people around you that they are ready to help and advise you. They did help me with some issues and requests (for example, I requested a local sim for having 3G during the trip) and they did it without any additional charge.
Go with them. Professional, friendly, reliable!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
An adventure for sure but a financially unstable company
It gives me no pleasure to write this .My wife and I have recently finished 23 days though uganda and tanzania which was action packed ,saw stacks of animals and met heaps of brilliant folk ,both locals and tourists .James the driver /guide and costa the Cook were brilliant blokes.James especially made the trip memorable and without his resilience and mechanical prowess the trip would have been a disaster.The ageing land rover should have been pensioned off a long time ago .Out of 23 days james would have worked on it 18 or 19 .we pushed started it at least 15 times and spent a lot of down time in wired places while james worked his magic on the Landy (5 hours in a petrol station in Macindi)as one example.we are Aussies who rough it heaps when travelling and all the dramas and changes of itinery did not particularly stress us ,you know go with the flow this is Africa no worries.BUT when we had to cough up almost a thousand US just to keep moving was a bit rich and now three weeks later not even responding to our emails is not good enough .if we had a reasonable response this review would have a different tone because it was an adventure and I don't think Simon is a crook .ps I am Rosemary's husband