US
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Caring, Considerate and knowledgeable Uganda Guide
9d trip: incredible nature, game lodges, gorillas!
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable!
Absolute trip of a lifetime! We traveled to Botswana in November 2021 for a 10-day safari through Chobe National Park, Savuti, and the Okavango Delta. Sam and his fellow guide Paul were absolute encyclopedias of knowledge of the area, the animals, and the birds. They were so patient with all of our questions, and they worked so hard to ensure that we saw lots of animals and beautiful sights. Our tents were immaculately cleaned every day, and the beds were so comfortable. Sam's staff took incredible care of us, catering to our every wish. The food was absolutely delicious; we were amazed at what Chef could create over a campfire. He even made us a chocolate cake one day! I'm so glad that we didn't stay in a lodge. We were truly immersed in the environment, at one with the birds and animals. Every night the stars would fill the sky, and the animal sounds were the music to which we fell asleep. I had no concerns of covid because all of Sam's staff is vaccinated, and everyone in Botswana and South Africa wears masks. Sam also planned the trip so that we could get our travel-required covid tests for our return flights home. You cannot go wrong booking your trip with Early Kingfisher Safaris.
AE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Good safari with good team
The safari was fantastic. Good for value. Joseph was helpful and friendly to make sure our trip was a success. There was a miscommunication and miscoordination though between the operator and the drivers due to a rare, unrelated incident with another traveler, which resulted in me having to wait in a lobby for half a day. Other than that, everything was brilliant.
CA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Deceptive. A con and possibly a scammer.
We booked a 3-day tour for 2 to the Maasai Mara for 1120 USD through Lucy Njeri's Splendor Holidays. This included Park entrance fees, private driver and accommodation. Everything was paid as agreed on time.
All was well until we got at the Park gate on Dec 13 when we were asked for receipt for the entrance fee which Lucy was supposed to have given to our driver. She had not issued one. Assuming it was an oversight on her part, we paid again 320USD for two of us for the 2 visits to the park.
I tried reaching out to Lucy with no response. It must be noted that up until that moment, she was was quick to respond especially when part of a payment was due. She could not take our calls, nor the driver's. Our multiple text messages went unanswered. We had other people reach out because it was clear she was ignoring our calls/messages. We hoped that she'd respond to theirs since she does not have their numbers. We were right. She responded to one of them with some shady story that she'd been mugged while depositing cash in her Mpesa account. I call it shady because we did not have to learn about that from other people. Not even her driver knew about it!!! She was ignoring his calls too.
Anyways she told that friend of ours that efforts were underway to issue a refund to us. She did not tell that to us. Days went by with no word from her despite numerous attempted phone calls.
Finally on Dec 15, after multiple calls and tests, she sent a copy-and-paste response she had sent to that friend of ours earlier with the same excuse. We kept asking her when the refund would be issued we never heard back.
We are now back in Canada unsure how we will get our money back. This has left us feeling scammed and deceived. We were referred to this lady by our close friends and up until that moment we were happy with everything. I don't know what else to call this other than what it is: scam, deception, theft and grossly unprofessional.
I will complain to any authority that can resolve this because it is not OK for our vacation to have this awful ending. Other vacationers please be warned!!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
AMAZING 10 DAYS KENYA AND TANZANIA SAFARI.
I and my family enjoyed our 10 days kenya and Tanzania safari. Masai Mara and Serengeti were the very best. All thanks to the team for reliable communication, the guides, Eric and Josh for being so professional too. Josh helped fix my spoilt camera on safari. The food and accomodations were amazing, at a nice budget. Thank you so much.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Once in a lifetime experience
In a nutshell, this was quality service at a budget. I will be back, with my entire family. I sure recommend this company to other tourists.
SE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Bucket List Adventure done
“My wife booked a trip to Kenya through Keron Safaris for the two of us plus my 26 yr old son. The trip could not have been better, we started off with a two night stay at the beach in Mombasa (Diani Sea Lodge) and had a great time winding down after two days of flying. Then we went to Tsavo East for a day and a half, amazing! From there we went to Amboseli for another day or so, also fantastic. Next was a half day at Nakuru, by this time we had seen so many animals, at Nakuru we added whit Rhinos to our list. We finished up at Masai Mara for our last day and a half.
So much fun and great camaraderie with our guide Venant, I would recommend Venant to be your guide too. He is extremely personable and accommodating, not to mention he is a great driver. You'll need a great driver, as the roads and drivers in Kenya are terrible! Many thanks to both Kenny and Venant for ensuring we all had an amazing safari!!”
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
"Professional effective service "
The professional service was really worth the money.All staff are professional to handle requests with prompt response .Thank you everyone in this company .we enjoyed our trip everyday. Our professional guide Nelson helped us to see all big five , birds and other interesting Animals in the best national parks in Uganda . We slept in tents and it was amazing experience because they were so beautiful with hot showers inside .it was also interesting to try local food in Uganda , car was comfortable ,weather was warm . Our safari dreams beacame true!!
We highly recommend paradise adventure vacations and Nelson because with him Everything good!
MX
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Poor experience
We didn’t have a good experience with this tourist operator.
First they offer a guide Spanish spoken and it wasn’t true, the guide just know some words in Spanish so our communication was so complicated.
We bought the safari 5 day, in the service description they include two days safari at the Masai Mara (including some hours at the 5th day) and our guide said, no the last day is just for go back to Nairobi, we had to show him the description of the service to had the complete service.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
My son and me traveled 8 days and enjoyed every moment of it.
From the first contact with Lilian we appreciated the preparation of the safari as well as the 8 days with Edward & Maxwell. Thank you all. My son did not feel well sometimes during the trip. All of the safari team took care about him. I advice the long safari because we enjoyed very much to have more time. I will never forget the honeymoon of the lions in Maasai Mara and the show of the cheetahs. Amazing.
