DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lovely, high quality effort from Moureen and her driver Robert
Would like to say "thank you so much" for an amazing 2 ppl VIP Safari organized from Moureen.
It was our first Safari and Moureen was very helpful in advance. She offered a lot of options and never was bugged due to our never ending changing requirements.
She also organized a webcam chat via Skype. It was a nice and quick option to ask her a lot of questions directly without any time delay.
After we accomplished everything and started our trip from Germany to Kenia and Moureen came with Robert from Mombasa and picked us up directly in front of our accomodation in Nairobi.
The whole 1 week trip we had our own driver Robert (very, very friendly, funny and qualified) and a nice and good equipped car!
We never felt unsafe in any way and the booked Lodges and Camps were as good as mentioned from Moureen in advance.
Due to the experience of Robert we have seen a lot of animals (also the big 5 ofc) and he was able to answer all our questions regarding each single animal.
Robert was all the time with us (except in our free time) and we loved and actually miss his society.
At Maasai Mara we booked an extra option (hot-air balloon trip) in advance via Moureen organized from another organisation and it worked smoothly without any problem. Moureen and Robert organized everything and the other organisation picked us up at our Lodge and returned us to it without any delay.
Our trip that started in Nairobi as mentioned before ended in Mombasa and there we met with Moureen again. She organized our 2 nights in Mombasa and we had a city trip + visit of a zoological garden with Robert as our driver again.
In the zoological garden we have seen the biggest turtles ever. Never expected such big ones alive. Felt in love with them and will never forget the moment when I saw them crossing my way and realized that they are real animals. Robert has not mentioned them before. It was a huge surprise!
If we will ever be in Kenia again we will contact Moureen for sure. We can recommend her to everyone of you without any bad conscience.
Thanks for everything Moureen and pls tell Robert that we were very happy with him.
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
World Air Travel organised a good safari with a very good driver/guide
Communicating with WAT is a pleasure, fast and to the point reactions. Our guide John was very nice, carefull and knowledgeable about nature; animals and plants of Tanzania.
Good vehicle, good lodges. Also thanks to the low season there were few tourists and we often had the animals (that were there plenty) for ourselves.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great wildlife viewing, quality accomodations, excellent experience start to finish
My wife and I took Coastal Aviation's last minute tour package, and had a wonderful experience from start to finish. The ground and flight crew at the airports were professional and got us there and back safely. Once we arrived, we were promptly picked up and immediately set out on our safari. Our guides were great and really went out of their way to make sure we had a great wildlife viewing experience. They were willing to head out very early and stay out as late as we wanted on our game drives.
The accommodations were pretty nice as well, with a great outdoor shower. It was great to be in a bush camp environment, and it really added to the whole safari experience. It was by no means 5*, but everything was excellent quality, especially for the price. There was even hot water! The food was the only thing that wasn't spectacular, but there was enough of it, which is probably more important.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Lake Mburo National Park by Stuart
This is a lovely Savannah Park. Lots of wildlife, especially hippos
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
This is quite an amazing adventure
It takes quite a lot of effort to get to Bwindi but the journey is well worth it if you get to see a Mountain Gorilla which generally most people do. This is really why you go there. I have worked for the National Parks Service in Australia so i went with a critical eye as to how the experience was managed but particularly how the Gorilla trekking was managed, especially since there are only 880 Mountain Gorillas left in the world. And i was very impressed. I stood within four metres of a Silverback and his family after a five hour hike with my heart thumping a million miles an hour. The guide was fantastic. You are only allowed one hour with the Gorillas but it was a truly wonderful experience to see these magnificent animals in their environment. A word of caution. The trip to get there from Kampala is long and arduous and if you get car sick then the last two hours could be hell but i dont so i just took it all in and had a wonderful time. I highly recommend going. It's a good idea to take a stop at Lake Mburo and/or Queen Elizabeth national parks on the way.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Uganda by Stuart
Uganda tourism suffers i suspect from the Idi Amin legacy with a reputation for danger it no longer deserves. I was there for two weeks and felt entirely safe the entire time. Interestingly Kenya gets the lions share of tourists (pun intended) but is not a partiuclary safe place. Right now I'd be avoiding Kenya and taking the far safer option of Uganda. Wonderful country, wonderful friendly people. It is green beyond belief. Can highly recommned the four to five day hike to Mt Elgon National Park to reach the summit as well. another well managed and spectacular place.
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
An exceptional and reasonably priced safari experience
My son and I had an exceptional safari, which was frankly much more fun and interesting than I expected. Over six days and five nights, Tarangire--Serengeti--Ngorongoro provided many memorable sights and exceptional wildlife. We had our own guide, and were surprised that there were relatively few other guests at most of the lodges and camps (which were uniformly excellent). Internet connectivity was good at the resorts, but of course not available at the tented camp. Although it was technically the start of the rainy season, we did not have any rain. Highlights included observing the birth of a hippo, sighting three cheetahs and also a mother leopard and her cubs, watching two lions attack a herd of cape buffalo, seeing six rhinos at Ngorongoro (including two who crossed just in front of our Land Rover), and driving through the middle of the Great Migration and thousands of wildebeest. Umang was very reachable, and our guide Moses was excellent. We highly recommend UBonsafari.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good price, very helpful staff, a lot of fun and nothing to complain about !!!!
We made a 6 day tent safari with Northern Circuit Adventure. We can absolutely recommend it !!!
We went in the low season and had the luck that it was only the 2 of us in the car. We saw lofs of animals (of course the big 5) and could always stay as long as we liked.
The owner Michael was all the time very helpful. For questions before the tour and also when we arrived in Arusha. We felt very welcome the whole time.
The tour is in comparison to the other companies a very good offer and we didn't see any big difference to the other more expensive companies. Maybe the cars are a bit newer, but there was nothing to complain about our car. They are in a very good shape even with electricity charger.
All cars of all companies are connected via radio communication so the drivers always know where you can find the animals.
The tents and equipment where in good and clean condition.
Food was (as from what we saw with all companies the same) and typical african food. It was always enough food and yummy.
We can defenitly recommend this operator and we would do the tour again the same way.
The Hotel Clouds view was very clean and absolutely ok for the arrival day but there is not much to do in Arusha.
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience
My journey in Tanzania had started off on a very negative note because the other tour operator I was in contact and trying to go with ended up cheating me out of my money and making off with it. I ended up at Mr. Geofrey Nassari's hotel, the Arusha Tourist Inn.
It was the best thing that could have happened to me because he arranged for me to go on his safari and he even helped me track my money down from the perpetrator after.
The safari was great, the driver was knowledgeable and the cook was excellent throughout the safari.
Highly recommend this company!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible trip
I went on a four-day trip to Mikumi and Udzungwa. I had booked last minute and was travelling alone and joined a couple travelling together and another solo traveller who had booked just the day before. Our guide was outstanding - he really went out of his way to ensure our comfort and was very helpful and cheerful. He also knew the park very well and we saw pretty much every animal you can imagine including a leopard! The accommodation was not luxurious but clean and decent enough for the price paid ($150 a day) and the food was good. The mud huts in Udzungwa were spartan but atmospheric and there was a great bar. Everything was well organised and we didn't have to worry about anything. Definitely exceeded my expectations.