35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
An Excellent Budgeted Family Outing at Ngorongoro Crater
My family was able to experience a fantastic tour to Tanzania at Budgeted Cost with Blue Ocean Safaris. The tour package was a 4 day getaway for 7 pax from Nairobi-Arusha-Ngorongoro-Serengeti-Arusha-Nairobi at all inclusive cost of USD 1,500 including homely stay at Blue Ocean guest house in Arusha. Ngorongoro crater is an amazing creation of nature holding "animal farm" selection of wild beast settlement. The tour operator, Mr. James Msuya whose experience came in handy in meandering through the valleys of Ngorongoro crater and knowledge of specific habitation of different species. The family was able to see all the wild beasts and appreciated the beauty of Tanzania as a country and lovely warm Tanzanians towards visitors.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Exquisite experience
Falcon Safaris provided an absolutely exquisite experience from communication to service throughout the safari itself. The Mapula lodge was beautifully designed and set up for an intimate safari adventure. The lodge manager, kitchen staff, and guides were all incredibly kind, helpful, and knowledgeable. From the rooms to the views to the food to the game drives and boat trips, everything was top notch.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Incredible and Awe Inspiring
Making the decision to travel to Africa can be difficult and can cause some concern when managing all of the details. Traveling with Worldwide Safaris Tanzania Ltd makes the trip so much easier. I have traveled twice with Ernest and can say that you will not find someone more trusting and concerned about your comfort and enjoyment. Because he is a local, Ernest can maximize every part of your trip. He has expert knowledge in the country, culture, nature, flora, and fauna of the area. He employs extremely friendly and knowledgable guides. The vehicles are safe and comfortable and driven by the most skilled and patient guides. Each trip is customized to your interest, activity level, and lodging desires (we stayed in beautiful lodges and tents). You can't go wrong in choosing Worldwide Safaris! Hurry and contact them now! You may see me because I will definitely be going back.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best agency I ever worked with
We planned our honeymoon vacation with Amazing Tanzania, being one week in Safari and one week in Zanzibar.
The planning made by Laura was excellent and fulfilled all our wishes. We even got some wedding specials from the hotels. All communication was very clear and fast.
Unfortunately, one month before the trip, we had to cancel due to health issues.
Once more, Laura was very helpful and got us a partial refund from the hotels, even though the downpayment was not refundable at all. She helped us to get the money back and didn´t charge us for anything.
I have to say, we expect this from friends, but I would never expect it from a travel agency.
I can´t wait until we are able again to do this dream trip and for me there is no other agency in Tanzania.
I recommend Amanzia Tanzania 100%.
Thank you Laura for all the help.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Beyond expectations - a first safari experience with a real taste of the bush...
Informative and helpful pre-booking support from Jane Bettenay helped the decision and a first safari started with excitement and hopes. First day in at Khwai Jane found leopard with cub and kill - magical - and an early start the next day was rewarded with two hours or more exclusively watching and photographing the mother and cub at close range from the thoughtfully adapted vehicle. Stunning! None of the 10 days disappointed with many more sightings and special memories of the wildlife and northern Botswana. Kwhai and Chobe river trips were brilliant with more close encounters and wildlife thrills including baby elephants swimming and lions in the sunset.
The 'bush' safari style suited well with evening camp fires, relaxed times and a good level of camp style comforts. Jane, and particularly her staff, were amazing and provided lovely food and much hard work with their individual skills, abilities and friendliness making the experience so rewarding. An great taste of Africa and a hunger for more!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent Value
We chose Tanzania Serengeti Adventures after scouring the internet for an affordable, but comprehensive safari. That is exactly what we got with TSA. We loved the experience from start to finish! Jordan and Iris were very helpful before the trip. Philomen was an excellent guide - we saw almost the entire big 5 in our first day. He was very friendly and knowledgable about the animals (due to his 20+ years of experience).
We also loved the Tanzania Ric Lodge. The rooms were more comfortable than I expected. Rosie, the cook/manager, was extremely hospitable. The food and service was excellent. Rosie took care that all of my dietary needs (vegetarian) were met. I also loved that the Lodge was on a coffee farm and I was able to take a tour of the farm during down time.
I would definitely recommend TSA.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A well organised safari with special features, excellent lodges and a great guide / driver.
Matoke Tours in Uganda prepared an excellent safari package for our family. Highlights were the guided Chimp tracking, guided crater lake hike including tea plantations and village visit, a guided loin tracking tour off the beaten tracks with a Lion expert. On our game drives in Kibale, Queen Elisabeth NP, Ishasha and Bwindi we saw lots of lions, herds of elephants, an occasional leopard. Highlight of our tour was definitely the gorilla track in Bwindi, impenetrable forest, were we came eye to eye with a silverback and his family. What an amazing creatures! Further worth mentioning that we stayed at excellent safari lodges whereby Katara Lodge, Mutanda Lodge and Mihingo Lodge are worth mentioning for their good dinners and great accommodation facilities as well as their amazingly scenic locations. WMatoke provided a guide and driver Anatoli, who appeared knowledgeable about Uganda, wild life and local environment, but was above all a very pleasant chap with a great sense of humour. We laughed a lot with him and he comes well recommended for anyone who want to visit Uganda. What an amazing country and excellent safari experience.
MX
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
10 days of safari in Tanzania, from Arusha to Serengeti
Nice guide but not well speaking and understanding mi language (French), and often (too much) silencious. Car damage which obliged us to wait a morning at the Serengeti doors (1/2 day safari lost). Poor comfort of the car. No fresh drinks in the car. Great days in Serengeti and Tarangire. Hotels: very poor quality of the first hotel in Arusha, second night alone in the hotel and we've waited electricity during more than 20 min.
Part of the African dream but could or should have been better from my point of view.
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
I had a great moment while in uganda with my guide and driver godfrey.
The services were excellent starting with the vehicle they used during this tour,it happened to have been raining and the road to biwndi was slippery but due to the fact that the car was a four wheel drive we didn't get any difficult.
IE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful week of Safari in Northern Tanzania
My wife and I took the 7-days/6-nights safari option with It Started In Africa, and we have a wonderful experience! The safari was great - we got to see so much wildlife - and our guide, driver and cook were excellent. We found everyone to be very friendly and helpful. The itinerary was very good, with lots of different things throughout the week. We really enjoyed the various game drives, but I think the visits with locals (banana plantation tour) and meeting the people near Lake Eyasi (especially hunting with the Hadzabe people) were real highlights!
Thank you for helping to make our trip special.