CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent service, friendly transfer, excellent lodge
We had an excellent experience. Everything worked well. The transfer provided by Johan was really friendly and safe - he told us a lot about South Africa and living in South Africa. Excellent experience as well at the lodge in Pilanesberg NP - thank you!
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience
We were very well informed in advance about what to expect in different travel periods.Everything went really smooth and with 100% focus on giving us the best possible service and a memorable experience.I have nothing but the highest praise for their staff, communications, and planning that went into our trip.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing experience with Gilmag and Gilbert (our guide), we cannot recommend them enough.
Probably the best tour company in our 4 month Africa trip.
Some of the reasons:
- Very affordable package compared to all other safari companies offering the same. They are a local company that started 3 years ago looking to build their profile.
- Excelent Serena hotels and we had a free hotel upgrade (+$100 more expensive)
- Very customizable Safari, we had the option to select full days or two half days. Full days was mostly our choice so we could get further away from the camps.
- Gilbert took us to non-tourist areas in Serengeti (research area). We saw +10 cheetahs and lions in one day.
- Very experienced guide, Gilbert had +7 years experience. He had great communication with other guides that gave him an advantage finding animals (lions, leopards, cheetahs).
- The car quality was excellent.
In summary, we feel really lucky to have picked up this company for our safari.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best safari company possible!!
My husband and I went on a 13-day safari with Soul of Tanzania in June 2019 and I cannot recommend them highly enough! I am from Australia and initially contacted local companies about our planned itinerary. However, after they all said they needed to consult “their providers” I decided to contact Tanzanian safari companies directly instead. From the first email, Luis from Soul of Tanzania was responsive, thorough and extremely helpful in planning the best possible safari experience for our timeframe and budget.
The quote from Soul of Tanzania was broken down into specific costs, providing us with numerous options for accommodation and activities at each location so we could customise our safari to completely suit us. We worked with Luis over the next few weeks to finalise our once in a lifetime trip. We decided to choose Soul of Tanzania for our safari because of Luis’s exceptional customer service – it was far superior than any other safari company I had contacted.
Even though I had an enormous amount of confidence in Soul of Tanzania based on their online reviews and my interactions with Luis, I was nervous about sending such a significant amount of money overseas. However, my confidence was definitely not misplaced and our safari was PERFECT from the moment we were greeted at the airport by our guide Ahmed – right up until our sad departure from Tanzania.
During our planning, we provided Luis with numerous details about ourselves which helped him suggest the best possible itinerary, but also helped Luis match us with the best possible guide – and Ahmed was definitely our perfect guide! Ahmed is an extremely knowledgeable and friendly guide, with a passion for both wildlife and birds, a fantastic sense of humour and he is dedicated to ensuring his guests have the most amazing experience possible.
Our safari took us to Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, Central Serengeti, Western Serengeti and Arusha National Park. Ahmed was with us for the entire trip and his exceptional spotting skills meant we saw some amazing sights, including over 150 species of birds and over 40 species of mammals and other wildlife. Ahmed was extremely patient with us when we wanted to take additional photos, and always tried to position us so we had the best lighting to get the best shot possible – resulting in some amazing photos to put on our wall.
The vehicle was in excellent condition and Ahmed kept it clean at all times, and our hot lunches were consistently delicious, with Ahmed setting up in the perfect picnic spot everyday with a cold glass of wine and a hot tea or coffee. Very indulgent when you are in such picturesque and remote areas.
We cannot be more grateful to Ahmed, Luis and Soul of Tanzania for making our Tanzanian safari better than we ever imagined it could be! Soul of Tanzania is a small company who customises their trips to suit each guest and provides the best service you could possibly ask for. For anyone planning a trip to Africa (Soul of Tanzania operate in countries other than Tanzania), make sure you contact Soul of Tanzania!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Mombasa holiday and mida creep tour
I contacted African Paradise safaris on behalf of other 20 group members.
John organized a 5 days tour in watamu at temple point beach resort. And we managed to do mida creek and dolphin tour.
Everything was well organized and fairly priced.
NZ
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Karl from DA certainly hit the nail on the head with our itinerary. Perfect
Karl's communication was faultless, he replied immediately with information to our Questions. Everything from the vehicle, driver, accommodation, meeting and greeting, food, company, safari our tour was everything and more than we expected. We had the most amazing and memorable time ever. David Anatory our driver was perfect, his communication, his safe driver with a little adventure every now and then :) made the trip for us. He certainly picked up our vibes for what we liked and what we didn't want to experience. We enjoyed his sense of humour, knowledge of and passion for Tanzania. I could go on and on forever about our experience. We rate it 100 out of 100 and if we could afford it we would definitely do again. Thanks DA your great, but a special thank you to David, see you in NZ sometime soon.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Chaz Tours is a prolific planner and organises lifetime memorable trips
Chaz tours organised a two tier tour for me and my visitors from the UK 6 days in Kenya and 8 days in Namibia. From the excellent planning and communication to delivery of the trip, we enjoyed ourselves to the brim. I can safely say this is the best trip of our lives. Memorable and delivered with care and skills. My friends were thrilled with game drives in the Mara, the train ride through the famous Tsavo game park only to be awestruck by the blissful beaches on the nothern coast of Shanzu.
For me the trip through Namib desert, the sand dunes and the out of this world scenery just became my most memorable trip ever. I will definitely go for more tours with Chaz tours and thank the amazing team. I highly recommend Chaz Tours, good job they are doing!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exciting game drive in beautiful Mikumi national park
Family of 4 went on å tre day trip, we slept inside the park. Communications and service was exellent. We were well taken care of from the first contact and during the hole trip. The food was simple but good and we got to see a lot of animals like lion, giraffe , elephant m.m . Our guide had great skills and we felt safe and learned a lot. We will like to come back another time and do it again !
SE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Silas is a really good and funny guide who has the ability to get close to the animals
I warmly recommend this company. You get really good service, good knowledge about the parks and last but not least a good laughter!
CA
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Small Group departure May-June2019
As a travel agent, dealing with Chris at Safari Partners was such a pleasure! Every phone call and email was dealt with in a timely fashion, making my job all that much easier!
There were six of us on this trip and it was truly an "African Dream", none of us can stop talking about! From our feet first touching African soil to our departure from Africa, every detail from transfers, accommodations, internal flights, and all service was perfect and on time!
On our safaris we had the best guides & trackers, making us feel safe & comfortable at every turn.
Service & food in the camps went above and beyond!
Thank you Chris for your expertise in helping me put this fabulous trip together....it was amazing!
