35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best guide. Best Chef. Best Vehicle. Best knowledge. Most unforgettable experience ever.
You know you have the best guide in the business when all the other guides keep asking your guide where the animals are!
I organised this Safari direct with Hilary via WhatsApp from Australia. He was able to accommodate my special requests with ease and was entirely professional with amazing communication. He was able to accommodate my request to visit a local orphanage which ended up being quite an adventure for all of us due to the wet, hilly and muddy terrain.
Our guide Zeiki was outstanding in his driving skill and knowledge. He certainly used great skill on our drive into the Rift Valley to the orphanage.
His English is perfect and I had no trouble understanding his very interesting commentary.
Our Chef was also “the best chef ever”. Such delicious wholesome meals and every time we felt hungry he was there with mouth watering goodness.
I recommend you use this company. They exceeded all others in honesty, professionalism and providing thorough enjoyment.
You won’t regret your decision to book with Suricata Safaris.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An amazing experience!
Easy pickup and travel to the camp location. Good simple food (I'm a vegetarian and it was great), lovely people. We had such a good time out on the tour with our guide Robert. He worked hard to spot animals and we saw a TON! Lions, cheetah, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, hyena, impala and more. Very comfortable accommodations. Everything just wonderful!
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolutely incredible. Could not have asked for more!
Richard was very communicative from the start. He was extremely friendly and led us on the tour of a lifetime!
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Bargain Groupon delivr what we paid for - 4 off-season Kenya resorts, +game drives but long xfer
It was a bargain Groupon trip WELL WORTH the MONEY - especially incl. air travel. Four quality Kenya game Park resorts (no Tanzania) about 2 days at each but transfers between each (plus repack/ checkout) rather grueling for 8 days game safaris ("10d/9n" package). Long resort transfer travel times included rest-stops (even some box-lunch stops) at the ubiquitous curio shops. Had we been in the market for negotiating carving/artwork prices I might have looked forward to stopping but with 5-6 hr travel times between Parks, "running the gauntlet" of sellers to use the [very clean, BTW] bathrooms in the back got rather old, fast. But I'd be singing different tune if I bought more trinkets.
Choice of Game Parks and resorts quite good. Nice mix. Amboseli. Lake Naivashu (even Lake Nakuru without Flamingoes) and the top Masai Maru NR delivered all that was promised. Just transport between them was grueling.
[perhaps "road travel" transfers could be done at night?]
Other safaris have flown us by prop plane to the grass strip at Masai Mara, but not at these prices (or gear weight limits) - so once again, this was well worth the price.
Other pluses included roomy Land Cruisers - only 4 pax in our vehicle + guide. Great! Guide (Francis) was tops. Vehicles maintained well. Food was great with variety. Photo ops at the resorts themselves were great - game right outside windows.
Extras requiring cash (~$30) included Maasai Village visit, the water safari by boat, tips, curios, plus the $50 cash entry visa fee.
Plus we sort of lost a day of touring Nairobi by arriving from US so late in the evening. Due to 9 pm arrival, traffic jams at the airport and streets of Nairobi, there was nothing to do but sleep at first Nairobi motel.
Communication-
Could have used more communication between Odyssey vehicles (our radio was down) and...once we paid Groupon, I was apprehensive about lack of communication from Mark at main office (is there one? or just an answering service?). The "Odyssey Chatter" link to help us prepare was broken. Beatrice was unreachable. I had fears about "hidden extras" - there were none. I had questions for Mark about Entry Visa, Immunizations, cash needed - but, when needed, Mark really delivered on Emirates tickets from our home gateway city. That too, was a great deal.
Time of year - April - for Kenya not the greatest but we saw the big 5, numerous cheetah cubs, Hippos, Snake, colorful big and little birds. Even dung beetles. Great backdrops of Kilimanjaro. Fish eagle fishing on Lake Naivashu was quite unique.
Long story short - I would book Odyssey again. I would recommend them. They could improve on communication to customers and between drivers.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
great group, cool guide and amazing memories!
My safari was a really nice experience.
I join a small group of 7 people . We had a nice guide with good knowleges on mamals, birds and flowers. It was very important for me as i love birds.
The lodges and tented camp were clean and comfy. My favourite was the Ngorongoro tented forest lodge, it was all made in wood and stone, nice decoration, nice view! And also the Ndutu wildland camp, we could hear animals walking around the tent at night.
We had great meeting with animals! I saw everything I was expecting...even more like 3 sheetas starting to hunt a Zebra! or so many elephants all around us in Tarangire.
And after all that I had a nice relaxing time in Zanzibar in Dongwe.
What a fantastic trip
SI
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very nice safary, with friendly guides.
I would like to thank the employees of the company for the whole transport from Nairobi to the safari. The guide (Mr. Ochael) and the driver were excellent, and all the praise for them. I was very pleased with the explanation, with their help and guidance of the whole tour. All praise and thank you once again on behalf of the whole team. I suggest you rent them, you will not be disappointed, you will be very very satisfied.
Quality for a very good price. Thx Mr. Ochael M.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A wonderful experience and a very customized trip.
That was an amazing experience going in Tanzania with that company. The managers and staff were very close to us and they suceeded to answer all our expectations about that travel... Great wildlife, accomodations, and people we met during those two weeks.
I would highly advice to travel with Hors Pistes Safaris.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great memories
We're back home and recovered after a great trip to Africa. We had a great time! I would like to thank Daniel at Mount Kenya Climbing Company for setting up the wonderful trip to hike Mt Kenya, such a great and beautiful mountain.
We had always wanted to Climb Mt Kenya and until you go, you can't really appreciate the magnitude of the area. We had Joseph as our guide and I can't say enough about what a great guide he was.
He kept us safe the entire time and made sure we made it to the summit which we did on a beautiful sunrise. The porters were very, very nice people and food was much better than we had expected for an 5 day climb.
We are very happy that we chose you to set up our trip and were very impressed with your guides and porters.That was an incredible experience!
We will have great memories about this trip for the rest of our lives. Thanks again for getting us all squared away and setting up such a successful climb.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Africa!
Perfect safaris organised an amazing holiday for my wife and I to Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. The recommendations they made included visits to victoria falls, chobe national park and sibuya game reserve and a number of others. They were all well run and gave us a great experience that we will never forget. I can highly recommend using Perfect Safaris for your next holiday!
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Witnessing the majesty of East Africa's wild side
We found ourselves in Arusha at 20:00 hrs, with a chain of hotel bookings across the National Parks and without a vehicle. We had been seriously let down by one of the international car-hire chains and been told that there were no other suitable vehicles available. Fifi came to the rescue. Within an hour we had a magnificent vehicle, an ace driver and a start time of 08.00 the following morning.
Amazing Adventure carried out the rather complex Park reservations following our itinerary and flexibly accommodating our occasional changes of plan. Our Guide and Driver was tirelessly attentive to our needs, made every effort to ensure we saw the landscapes and the wildlife we needed to see and shared our enthusiasm for all that we witnessed. But above that he demonstrated his own deep affection for his Tanzanian heritage and his commitment to its conservation. It was a rich experience and we could not have wished for more.