DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Twinkle Star is client-oriented, flexible and offers high value tours.
I am currently a resident in Kenya and my brother David visited me over the Christmas - New Years' holiday. We spent most time with our friends in Narobi and at the coast, but also wanted to make a safari to a national park which was a completely new experience to my brother. I wrote to some safari companies and James very quickly responded to offer detailed solutions for the planning of our safari and time line as we envisioned it. We eventually settled for a four-days trip from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara. Our resort was a very beautiful luxury tented camp with a fantastic view over the planes and very friendly and accommodating staff. Our safari guide Simon was very experienced and knowledgeable and took us for a couple of unforgettable game drives through the Mara where we got to see the big five in addition to many other animals. The organizer also accommodated our request for a morning safari walk and we visited a Maasai village on the second afternoon. We will definitely consider to choose Twinkle Stars again for future safaris.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Dream come true!
We booked a 7 days premium luxury safari, for Tarangire, Manyara, Ngorongoro & Serengeti, all inclusive, the lodges that we got are all beautiful, and with a pool each time, food are delicious, instead of have picnic box for lunch, we had nice warm dishes prepared everyday during our safari.
Talking about safari, we are very lucky to have Seleh as our guide, he is an expert for animals (feel like we have so much to learn after this trip). He is not only explaining us about the animals, as well for local cultures, and teaches us many many words in Swahili.
Something I must mention, our guide Seleh is someone paying attention into every small details, such as cleans the dust from our bags every afternoon when we arrive in hotel for check in, and bring the food that we could not finish (untouched) to local people who works around, and he always gives us serval different angles for taking pictures of animals, which other guide does not always offering the same.
Most important: he has very good eyes, he always find the hiding cats for us! many many times, he is the one who found the leopard, cheetah, and lions, then he communicates with other guide from different tours through the radio, for them to come over and check out.
So yes, we had the chance to see the big fives with Seleh, not only once but many times, as the first one who discovers, and that experience is totally unforgettable!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Incredible experience spotting wild animals and extreme professional safari game drive !
Unbelievable moment in Kenya!
We had the pleasure of traveling to Kenya and exploring the country with Great Image Expedition Ltd. They planned out our entire itinerary in-country and handled everything from lodging to airport transfers and travel.
As part of our visit we spent about 4 days in the Nairobi National Park and Amboseli National Park with our guide Raymond and Fredy. They were incredibly knowledgable not only of the parks, but of every corner of the country. Thanks to the Great Image Expedition Ltd and the team.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime with the best team!
It is so hard to put into words how incredible this trip has been! We expected to have a great time, but our expectations were far surpassed.
We are 2 friends who came from the UK on a last minute trip to Kenya. It has been so easy to organise our safari experience through Earthwings, even though it was very last minute! Communication was easy and all our queries were answered.
This has truly been a trip of a lifetime. We enjoyed ourselves from the beginning of the journey right up until the end. Lake Naivasha (an extra part of the trip) was incredible- we saw hippos, different birds and giraffes grazing on crescent island.
Lake Nakuru was amazing! The hotel was so beautiful, the food was DELICIOUS, and the game drives were spectacular. The main highlights were seeing white rhinos a few feet away, and herds of zebras having their morning drink.
Last but not least- the Masai Mara. Frederick and Martin went above and beyond to make our experience the best we could have hoped for. Not only did we see the big 5, we saw amazing scenes of predators feeding, families playing and giraffes fighting. Martin and Frederick are very knowledgable and made our game drives so entertaining.
The hotels (Sarova) were beautiful, with delicious food and the kindest, most friendly people you’ll ever meet.
I could not recommend this team more- they’ve given us so many incredible memories, and have been so accommodating. We are so sad to be ending our journey, and are super grateful to Martin and Frederick for all the laughs, the stories and the animals!
Thank you!!
PL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolutely perfect tailor made private safari
8 days (7 nights) safari adjusted to our expectations and inquires was superb experience
Susan from Roy's office patently replied our questions and expectations, so finally we've mutually created programme fitted to our budget, time slot and expectations
All 3 accommodations during trip was really very good and "Retreat of Ngorongoro" was in fact lodge comparable with 5 star boutique property (something like Curio by Hilton or so...)
Finally biggest highlight of safari: Our Guide Emmanuel- reliable guy with excellent knowledge regarding fauna & flora of all parks we've visited and with similar sense of humour so of course we've created something like a "team" since first day.
We honestly could really recommend "Roy Safaris" local company from Arusha for reliability & customer friendly attitude.
Every single day was absolutely worth of money spent for it !!!
PL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Perfect organization
Excellent organisation, great fun, amazing view, wonderful time!
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very friendly guide, who did everything to spot the animals and told me a lot about them.
Fast response time. Transfer and pick up went smoothly. Guide did the best he could to provide me a good safari with a lot of information regarding the animals. Tented lodge was really nice and clean.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very professional and accommodating
Our experience with Africa Starpal Safaris was top-notch. They gave my partner and me an experience of a lifetime at Tsavo forest where we got to see all of the big 5. The week we were to go on the safari I caught covid and we had to postpone, they were very accommodating and understanding allowing us to still go on the safari during our trip in Kenya. Overall, I was very satisfied with the experience and I would highly recommend booking your tour with them.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing and excellent travel agency in kenya,Always recommend them for stress free safari
I have used quite a number of tour companies in kenya on my previous safari and nothing compares to Africa Starpal Safaris. The service was exceptional right from the office with Paul who was handling our safari. They surpassed my expectations and I am recommending them to all my family and friends and anyone who need your safari to be planned without any stress you better use this team.The guide seems to know everything on the forest,where to find the big five and every sounds of the birds,At some point i thought he was staying on those parks.All in all i cannot say everything but they made our 7 day safari to masai mara,Lake Nakuru,Amboseli and tsavo safari one of the best.Still planing to do migration safari with them.So i highly recommend them highly compared to some big safari brands in Kenya.
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
great safari with a very friendly guide (calvin)
3days of safari rich in emotion... good organization... very nice guide who did everything to make us happy... The Lodges were very comfortable and the food excellent!