IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
My selection of Chalo Africa for this African Safari will remain as a sweet memory for a long time.
As a matter of fact our tour to east Africa (Kenya & Tanzania) was totally planned & executed right according to the plan by Chalo Africa. Our contribution in the whole affair was only to tell them what exactly we want, the duration of time we want to spend & of course the payment. The rest every details, including the timing of the tour was their business which was executed, in a word, splendidly. The game drives, the enjoyment, the comforts in the tents & lodges, the foodings, the guides, the hospitalities, the safari vehicles, weather everything was superb. We could fulfill all our expectations which we carried before we started. Even during the tour the directors of Chalo Africa maintained a constant connection with us for continuous monitoring.
CA
Excellent time with Wildebeest Safaris
We were a group of 10. We booked our hotels on our own and then used 2 drivers from Wildebeest Safaris to take us to the various sites, as well as provide 2 game drives daily. Our drivers Dennis and Eusty were wonderful! Both young men were extremely knowledgeable, funny and very flexible. We saw the Big 5 more than once, and in each of the game parks, Dennis used his radio to keep in contact with other drivers so we were able to quickly drive to a site if someone else had found lions/leopards/cheetahs, etc. If we ever make it back to Kenya, we will most certainly use Wildebeest, and will specifically for either Dennis or Eusty.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent safari with highly knowledgeable and reliable guide
I have done several safaris in Africa and Feline Safaris Tanzania is one of the best I have joined.
Bariki is extremely knowledgeable about the wildlife and could even name every bird we saw. He went to great efforts to ensure I saw cheetahs and lions and his eyesight is remarkable. He can spot an animal from afar, when I needed binoculars... I also enjoyed our conversations about Tanzania and Africa.
Overall service was excellent, easy booking process with quick communication, competitive prices, reliable and knowledgeable guide, save driver & good lunch provided.
I will highly recommend Feline safaris to friends visiting Tanzania.
CH
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
The best safari I have had since 1976
During the precedent safaris I have had in Kenya and Tanzania, we were 6 to 8 tourists in the same minibus during the game drives, which made it difficult to watch and photography at leisure the animals, while game drives were limited to two, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, each of 2 to 3 hours, covering short distances. With Karibu Safaris, for our six-day safari, my wife and I could for a reasonable price have the minibus for us only, and we had game drives of up to 9 to 11 hours a day, both in Masai Mara and Amboseli. Our driver-guide, Arony, was exceptionally competent with 20 years of experience, friendly, anxious to show us the best, taking us to the right spot at the right time, and sparing no effort or time for this purpose. This allowed us, for example, to be among the first to reach the spot where a kill was taking place in Masai Mara, with 7 lions capturing a mature buffalo. Accommodation in lodges and food were excellent and up to our expectations. Definitely the most memorable safari we have ever had!
Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Always keeping it Cheetah R. Safaris
The services are of standard.
Be curious with C.R.S for it's said..'Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventure.'☺️
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Like queen and king on our honeymoon thanks to Nikki
We had a dream to do an African safari for our honeymoon and thanks to Nikki and the team at Southern Africa 360 it became a reality. We wanted to go to Botswana and Namibia, but most tours did not offer this combination for our budget and our wishes (we did not want to get eaten by lions in our tents at night). We first contacted some Dutch travelling agents, who advertised to offer customised tours. When we shared our wishes, they just referred us to their website, where packaged tours were listed. Not useful. Then we started to look broader - including international organizations and thats where we found SA 360, they had decent prices for some nice lodges - it looked affordable and luxurious at the same time. There were only 5 reviews though, but every singly one of them mentioned how great Nikki was. Hesitantly at first, I contacted her, just to get overwhelmed by her willingness to help, great knowledge of Southern African countries, and excellent tips. We mailed back and forth about 5-6 times, after which our itinerary was set - our journey went through three countries and extended for 17 days (Dutch tours were offering 9 days for the same money). We even added South Africa to our journey, instead of visiting Victoria Falls, which at that time of the year would not be as spectacular (Nikki fact!). After we booked everything, Nikki still remained in touch with us and even offered us an upgrade for one of our stays, because a good deal became available. Finally during the trip itself Nikki was available on Whatasapp within seconds (even on Xmas), coordinating if things were going according to our wishes. Both times when we go double billed for something, Nikki took care of it. She also advised us extensively on all our questions. All the lodges/activities were beyond our expectations, especially the Namibia trip (amazing!!). Overall we had a great time and we felt completely safe and well taken care of. I just hope that Nikki will expand from SA 360 to World 360 so we can book all our future holidays with her.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wonderful 2 Day Trip with Engagi
Organizing the trip was totally easy. Robert was very helpful arranging the trip (bank transaction, gorilla permits, etc.) and gave us good advice to plan our trip.
The lodge is completely new and lies at a very quiet place right at lake Bunyonyi.
The only negative side was the aspect of waiting really long for our meals. In addition, communication with the staff was sometimes a bit difficult in English. Despite that, everyone was totally friendly and helpful!
We can definitely recommend booking a trip with Engagi. Great time and worth the money.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Brilliant!
My husband and I just finished a 9 day private tour around Uganda, and absolutely adored our time spent there!! Our driver/guide Frank was amazing - knowledgeable, kind, always ensuring we got the best out of our Ugandan experience - we will miss him very much! Rachel and the team were also a pleasure to deal with in the leadup to tour aswell, adjusting our itinerary to get the best out of our short time there, whilst accomodating our personal side plans we wished to visit along the way. We would recommend Kombi to anyone - plus the accommodation and food were next level!
Amazing times!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Offers great ideas and suggestions with customer’s interest at heart. I recommend
It was a pleasant experience booking with you. Our tour to Maasai Mara, Lake Naivasha, and Olkaria was a great success. Our guide was very resourceful and made constructive and helpful suggestions about the places we visited, the accommodation, which would meet our expectations. I cannot exhaust everything here. However, I won’t hesitate to book with HomeAway safaris anytime I wish to tour Kenya and East Africa at large
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Avoid Tropical vacations Inc
Avoid Tropical vacations Inc, his manager Mathew Adams is a lier and a thief, and avoid as well his Tanzanian partner, World Tour Tanzania. Here is the story in brief:
We booked a 4d/3n safari in Serengeti/Ngorongoro with this Kenyan based company. The detailed program has been comunicated to us, we have received photos of the cars we were supposed to use, the price and terms of payment has been agreed, everything seemed perfect.
The day of departure the pick up time was planned at 8h30 by people from the "Tropical vacations "ground office" Mathew wrote to us. At 9h30, no news from anybody, we started calling Mathew Adams, that we could not reach, and later our Landlord in Arusha ( we gave her phone number for more convenience) told us that she received a call from a guy in Arusha, saying that the safary was cancelled (....). After again many sms and attempts to speak with Mathew adams, he sent us an sms saying that things has been solved(...). We indeed were picked up and ended up at 11h30 am in a far away offices of a company called World Tour Tanzania, from which we have not heard about before. They told us that we were going with them in Safari, but they asked us to pay more than what has been agreed and under different payment terms than the ones agreed in written with Tropical vacations.
We refused and asked the Tanzanian guy to call Tropical vacations to solve this problem. The guy said he does not want to spend money calling Kenya from Tanzania, and told us that we have to call ( !!!).
We went back to downtown and again tried to call/sms ( at our expenses of course) Tropical Vacations. At 5 pm, World Tour tanzanian called us back , the price he asked was finally the one agreed with Tropical vacations, but still not the tems of payment. So after loosing one full day of our holidays trying to reach Tropical Vacations and solve the problem, as we coudl not get the terms which has been agreed in written with Tropical Inc and as we had now little confidence in this company, we decided not to go with this company. So Tropical vacations Inc did not respect the terms of its written commitments + was hiding to us the fact that it was just a simple intermediary company + lying to us on the service rendered : we have indeed not seen in the office of this World Tour Tanzania any of the nice cars that we have seen on the fotos sent to us by Mathew Adams. Later Mathew told us that the kenyan cars he showed us were not allowed to go to tanzania ( !!!). And regarding the non respect of the agreed terms he told us that a new regulation has been enacted in Tanzania 6 months earlier, that he was not aware of... while he is claiming to have, I quote " +14 years experience in Safari Tour Operations".
Last lie, back in Europe we proposed to Tropical Inc to reimburse us the paid money and we would forget about this sad story, Mathew Adams proposed to reimburse us 75% of the money we paid, we agreed on that. He was supposed to reimburse us before the end of last year, then he said he would pay us after the 26th of January... we are at the end of February and we still did not get our money back, and now he is no longer answering the mails. Maybe this comment will make him respect at least this last commitment ?
As a conclusion, avoid Tropical vacations Inc, and generallly speaking, I would advise you to use local companies, ie for Kenya kenyan based companies, and for Northern Tanzania, Arusha based companies.