DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Mt Meru climb and safari
We booked the four-day hike of Mt Meru and a six-day safari with Tropical Trails and can highly recommend this company! Service was efficient and friendly, Eliaika was of great heao before and during the trip, making sure that everything goes well. Our mountain crew during the hike was more than excellent, especially our mountain guide Saladini and the cook Charles made an extraordinary job. We can highly recommend them if you plan to climb Mt Meru or Kili.
The safari was an unforgettable experience, the lodges we stayed in were all perfect! And we were lucky to see lots of wildlife, including the big 5 :)
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
amboselli and masai mara 6 night safari
Kichaka Tours and travels. Excellent company. very personal, dedicated, courteous, friendly, helpful and accomodating. Bonnie the guide, is the BEST, In, 2 days we saw the big 5 over and over again. we were so close to a lion, [ any closer, we would have to give the lion a MINT for his bad breath]. Stephen, the tour operator, now a friend, is so personable. Would recommend Kichaka tours to get the BEST experience for safari in Kenya.
AR
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Wonderful experience .
The trip my grandson and l took to kenya Was absolute bargain, i cannot believe all that was included for the price I paid, and the experience for both of us will be a a memory for a lifetime. You folks doing a marvellous job, and I have already recommended your company to dozens of friends. Thank you for the grandest and most cost-effective 10day kenya and Tanzania group tour i have ever experienced .
IT
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
The best trip you can do in that area
A few years ago I was involved as tour guide in Africa for an italian travel company(Viaggi Voltaire).I have been traveling all over Africa (with adventure safaries ,trekking etc..)visiting most of its countries.In other words I have some experience in African trips.This is to say that travelling with Tailored Made Safari was above my expectations.
We were two couple in their 70th who did not want to join organized travels and in the meantime not to have too much adventure.I think that the approach of Tailor Made Safari was what we needed.Everything was excellent:communications,service,assistance and a little adventure.Very good job.
HK
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful and interesting 8-days safari and 5-days Mt. Kilimanjaro mountain trekking
Safari - thanks to our wonderful driver and chef! Wonderful and interesting people. Driver (he was also the guide) is good at finding the best spots for photo-shooting. He has good eyes and see animals far away and hence drove to the best spots for watching. Chef gavve us a lot of pleasant surprises in delicious food, especially made a birthday cake for one of our members during the safari trip and it was afreat surprise to her as well as others taking dinner in the canteen of the campsite. Will miss them.
Mountain trekking - Great crew of 9 members to serve us (two). Without the encouragement by our two great mountain guides, we would not be able to make it to the summit! Just one minor comment, for food and especially for our Chinese/asians, it might be nice (to have a better appetite in high attitude) to have some sort of congee or soup noodles for our meal as it is easier to swallow and digest. Anyway, it's our fault not telling our great chef about this earlier for them to prepare the materials before the trekking.
Overall : Mr. Hamad, the responsible person of Face of Africa Adventures is a very responsible man and he visited the campsites several time to make sure that we were satisfied with the service. He also went with us to the start point of our trekking and met us at the gate when we finished the trekking. We whole-heartedly thanked him for his service. Overall, Tanzania is a loverly country, with great places to visit. You can see all that you want to see in the safari (the Big Five) and reach the top of Africa (almost exhausted)! At least once in a lifetime experience.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
budget safari
We had combined safari Kenya-Tanzania. Everything was great at Kenya site, super driver/guide Stanley (I really recommend this guy!), accommodation, organisation - 100% satisfaction.
Tanzania - 100% disaster. Company which organised our safari - Arusha Center Inn Tourist total mess; the director Abraham - liar, conditions at camps horrible; we had paid for tents with beds and bedding - we got used sleeping bag and no beds; sanitation at the bathroom/shower - 100% bio-hazard, awful; driver/guide Freddie - avoid him, very slow not at all organised and with small knowledge about nature and animals - waste of time and money! Avoid this company!!!!!
So I really recommend safari in Kenya but I cannot recommend Tanzania - it was horrible 4 days.
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very professional!
Everything was better than I tough. The Hippo Camp, the food, the driver and the service overall.
Everybody I met was really professional and is definitely the cheapest option to have a great safari!
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great fun! Amazing experience!
Everything went really smoothly. From dealing with Tom Ocharo in Nairobi, to the driver, the van and the camp. I did a Masai Mara + Nakuru 4 day in total safari, so I had to change van and driver, as the first group I was with were returning to Nairobi after visiting Masai Mara. The drivers coordinated really well though, so things were smooth. In terms of the Safari itself, I got to seeing many wild animals, and all but the elephant out of the big 5. That just boils down to a question of luck I guess, because our driver was really good and really did his best to get us to see as much as possible. Overall, for a budget Safari starting from Narirobi, I strongly recommend this one.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Trip to the Mara
The rough roads makes reaching mara such a taxing and burdensome exercise. Please lobby the national and county government to tarmac the same
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
overall experience was very good
we are a family of four ( 2 adults and 2 children)and first thought of going to Kenya in June 2016 when, after searching online, I came across this company and contacted them first via email and subsequently via whatsapp. David, company owner, is extremely helpful and was always very quick to reply to any emails/whats app messages that I sent. I called him via what app several times asking for advice and guidance and he was always very polite and professional and gave me all the necessary information.
We took 5 days tours (Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha) in August 2016 (started on 8th Aug) and as planned David sent a driver to pick us up direct from Nairobi airport at 8 am. The tour was all good although the lunch on day 1 on the way to Masai Mara was in Narok in a restaurant called Dream something (I cant remember the full name but the first world was Dream) and the food here was not good at all with rather poor hygiene and we hardy ate anything as we did not want to risk our health on first day of our trip.
The tent accommodation in Masai Mara was excellent and food was freshly cooked with good choices (we are all vegetarian). The accommodation in Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha was of reasonably good quality and they offered us good vegetarian food.
One problem we had was that in Masai Mara they merged us with another group of tourists in the same van who were going to take ballon safari on the last day which meant that we had to wait an extra 3 hours for them in Masai Mara on the last day of our Masai mara tour which would have meant a very late arrival to Lake Nakuru as travel time from Masai Mara to Lake Nakuru is good 7-8 hours. However after we made some noises and after some arguments they finally made arrangements for us to depart from Masai Mara at 9 am (otherwise we would have had to wait until 12 noon for other group to arrive from their ballon safari).
Driver Ben was very quite and did not give us much of the information other than telling us few things when asked directly.
Other than this small hitch, everything else was excellent. I will certainly recommend taking Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha. Although you see many of the same animals in Lake Nakuru but the ambience is very good. Its a proper national park and well looked after. There were no flamingoes there when we visited. The gorge in Hell National Park is definitely worth seeing and boat ride in Lake Naivasha should certainly be done (we negotiated a price of $50 for the boat).
We were picked up and dropped back at the Nairobi airport which was very convenient and meant that we did not need to go to Nairobi town. We flew from Nairobi to Mombasa and David even arranged a taxi for us at the Mombasa airport to take us to diani beach at a reasonable price ($40).
Overall, I will highly recommend Absolute Safari. David is very reliable and highly professional. I will give them a 5 star rating for making our tour so memorable.