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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exciting South Aftican Safari!
We booked a family trip/safari to South Africa with Chris. He spent a lot of time getting our intentions and ideas right and made suggestions that were tailor made for us. A mother and three daughters traveling together - we definitely had lots of questions and concerns regarding the usual travel issues. Everything was booked and unexpectedly one of the daughters needed an emergency medical operation. Chris was away at the time, but picked up his emails, got on the situation right away and made alternate arrangements, rerouted flights etc. Three of us went and enjoyed every aspect of the trip. We are avid travelers and we have never used an agent before. I don't believe we could have done it without his expertise. The hotels offered excellent service and honestly we cannot thing of a negative. Well, one, my youngest didn't get to go ..... but we already have Chris on that one!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
James is incredible!!!
From the moment we arrived in Arusha and James picked us up at the airport to going our seperate ways, the experience was incredible. First thing I noticed was how nice the vehicle was. And how clean and organized everything was. The safari vehicle had a power strip in it for charging phones, camera batteries and power my breast pump. We got dropped off at a beautiful hotel for the evening and started our adventure bright and early. James is a great city and 4x4 driver. We saw everything we were hoping for. Cheetas with babies, elphants, birds of all kinds, buffalo, zebra, wildebeast, lions galore, monkeys, baboons, the near extinct rhinos and tons more! Our stay the second night was top notch luxury accomodations. I would reccomend anyone use Lion King Adventures!
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Pilanesberg National Park
Had a great tour and a most pleasant experience including hotel pick-up and return, our expert guide Johann was most knowledgeable, full of interesting stories and a perfect driver/ranger.
Recommend highly- Peter Herr
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65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Ecological Wilderness Adventures far surpassed my expectations.
Our trip with Ecological Wilderness Adventures was a wonderful and memorable experience. The entire trip was well organized and we always knew what to expect for accommodations and daily viewings. The food was great and I'm surprised I didn't gain much weight. I really enjoyed the days when we had picnic lunches and breakfasts - it was fun to eat lunch in the field.
The viewing was incredible and ALL three of our guides (Brian, Amiri, and Gerald) are extremely knowable. Their experiences with animal habits and interaction made the trip very educational. We saw everything one would want to see on a safari and up close! My personal favorite is the cheetah and we saw a lot of cats - lions, leopards, serval cats, & cheetah's. I won't list all the animals we saw but we saw them all multiple times and many times close enough to use and iPhone!
The camps were very comfortable and the staff was very friendly and always willing to help make our days as comfortable as possible. Everything was extremely clean - cooking facilities, dining area, sleeping accommodations and camp tents.
I would like to return to enjoy the wonderful viewing but I would also like to see out three guides again. I feel like I make three good friends - Brian, Amiri, Gerald.
PK
Best Services
Best services Then others i love to travel with them best travel planner
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Paid less and received more.
It was a Great time having travelled with L'hoest Safaris for my 4 days in uganda. I enjoyed and just say they offered me more that I expected.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Kalangala Expedition
When i got in touch with Adventure Expedition, i was blown away by the warmth of service and the attentiveness of Angel. You know how Ugandans mistreat their clients once the money is in....not with this service though.
Everything was easy and comfortable with no need to ask whether all the promised arrangements had been done.
It was a beautiful experience.
I highly recommend the services of Adventure Expeditions and Angel...oh and the driver was not over speeding!!!
Thank you for a wonderful mini-holiday.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fabulous..!!!! I have come back from Southa Africa 1 month ago
I recommend to everyone, beautiful views, wildlife, animals and a guide that is 100% prepared to organize your stay.
UA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
They are Liars!
A plus:
It was a beautiful safari and we saw many animals. I want to say many thanks to the chef, his food was very tasty.
Minuses:
We went in the low season, so if you are hoping for what they told in the correspondence, do not believe it! They'll take you as they like. They will not follow the description that is said here. And you will have a safari only in the morning or only in the evening, do not expect that you will spend all the time looking at animals. Our car broke down and we drove 6 hours to the campsite at a speed of 10 km and no one came to our rescue.
We arrived when it was dark, nothing is visible and I hurt my leg, it was swollen and there was a hematoma, and they even do not have a usual first aid kit and they refused even to bring a bottle of cold water that I would put on my leg. On the last day of the safari, the people who were with us, ended their safaris, because they started earlier and we just joined them. At 11 o'clock in the afternoon we were taken to a camping place and we did not go anywhere else!
With all this, the director of this company blatantly lied and denied that everything was fine!
When I gave the guide a tip of $ 85 (4 days of safari for two), he also started to say that we should give tip the chef! Dear authorities, warn people that they themselves should distribute tips between employees, because I thought that they themselves share everything equally. That's why we paid even more!
I do not recommend this company to anyone. The most terrible and deceitful attitude!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Unsasisfied client
I had booked and paid for accommodation in the Kruger Park at Bergendal through Afritrip Kruger.Com.On our arrival at Malelane Gate after travelling for 5 hours we were told that accommodation had been cancelled as they had not received payment from Afritrip. You can imagine our disbelief. On phoning the company in Cape Town they found accommodation outside the Kruger Park which was not what we wanted but had no choice and another 2.5 hours drive.Lucky for us we knew where we were going,but you can imagine the horror of foreigners who would be expecting to stay in the Kruger Park.On returning home I sent them emails and phoned the company and to date 11/05/17 have received no response.No letter of apology or anything,just completely ignored.I will never recommend booking through them