20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good Food, Good Driver
I really like food I have in Masai Mara! And for low-season trip, this is by far amazing! cant wait to go back to Kenya one day!
CA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Beautiful country and warm people.
Me and my family do safari in Kenya where we visit Maasai Maara and also see flamingos.
We deal with Elizabeth of Simba Trails and she is very professional and honest young woman. Safari was very good and my family recommend this company very much.
CA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic planning and great safari experience
From the point I made a query with Simba Trails, Elizabeth was very good in repsonding to all my questions. The safari itinerary was well planned and our safari was exactly as per itinerary.
We had a 7 day vacation and we visited Maasai Maara and Lake Nakuru. Afterwards, we went to the beach for 3 days in Mimbasa.
All in all, me and the family highly recommend Elizabeth and Simba Trails Kenya.
CN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Beautiful
What a fabulous two weeks Safari and Beach. Every lodge we stayed was excellent, with a huge warm welcome and excellent service. Our fabulous guide John was brilliant, we saw so much and he listened to everything we wanted to do, and provided a perfect 8-day safari. We had picnic envy most days, as we sat down to a hot meal with wine, coffee, and biscuits.
We finished in Zanzibar, in a fabulous hotel, Paradise.
The service we got from the office, who were very patient with us, when helping us with the plan, and the holiday exceeded our expectations.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Dreaming about my next tour
Set up a trip to Kalangala with the fam. Had a blast. All I had to do was book it, pay and chill because A-One Safaris took care of the rest. I'm working hard so that I can chill even harder at the next safari.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Spontaneous sa
Mush and I always stay at Bunyoni View Resort when we are in the area and this time we spontaneously decided to finally see the gorillas. We had not really planned this but Didan and his team were able to organize our trip in a few hours and we went the next day. We were surprised that in this short time he was able to provide us with a great service since we heard most tours take weeks in advance to plan this. Didan was the one who drove us safely after which we enjoyed the track for about one and a half hours. We were lucky to have a guide who shared his expertise and answered all of our questions. It was a fantastic experience and I can only recommend Mambo Gorilla Safaris Uganda to everyone who is looking for an adventure - planned in advance or just as an unexpected treat.
NE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
the experience was quite good especially the services and guidence package offered
it was my first experience with a tourism touring agency and i personally enjoyed it visiting different places in Rwanda namely Akagera national park, Nyungwe and the mountain gorillas. i appreciated the communications as any slight change in the planning was notified effectively.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
I miss Imbali already!
Thank you Andy for recommending Imbali lodge, it was amazing! I spent 4 nights there with my wife last month and we had a great time. The staff were so friendly and the food was very good. I never knew that there are private lodges inside Kruger National Park! Imbali lodge offers incredible value for the money you pay, our suite had a private pool and drinks were included which was really convenient as everything was included.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The best tour company out there!
Both the gorillas & Nyiragongo Crater have been on my bucket list for a long time.
I decided to bite the bullet and spent hours researching your companies and costs. The same name “Barack” kept appearing.
Barack, Kennedy, and the team were amazing from start to finish. Communication, cost, and work ethic were all top class. I would recommend them 100%
NG
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A memorable prep into the wild beasts of the maasai mara
My wife and I had a wonderful outing into the maasai anchored by Karibu Safari. We're picked up very early in the morning from our accommodation.
We also had a nice drive to the maasai (safe for the part of the road that is very bad-- this is government responsibility though). We got to the maasai a bit late on the first day because Sammy, our great driver, had to fix something in the bus while we ate lunch.
Regarding our game experience, Sammy was no doubt a very experienced driver and tour guide. Because we got there late on day 1, we could only see very few animals. However, his experience as a tour person and wildlife 'hunter' came to fore on the second day. We saw many of the important animals: lion, buffalo, leopard, elephants, hyena, antelope, zebras, and several others. My wife and I really enjoyed the search for animals and the whole maasai mara experience.
Lunch and dinner are great. It's a buffet arrangement where you have to serve yourself (except for the lunch on the second day which is packed because we have to eat inside the reserve).
Accommodation is also acceptable and represent a good value for money paid. Light is on from around 6-6.30pm and goes off by 10pm. It is on again in the morning around 5-5.30am and off around 7am. This is not so bad for us. The only reservation I had is that the link sent to me by the Karibu Safari indicated that we'd be staying at MaraSpring safari camp. Information on the link also stated that there would be solar-powered 24 hours electricity. See http://www.mountainrockkenya.com/marasprings/ But like I said, this did not in any way reduce the fun that we had. The organisers can be more specific in the future though.
Going forward, Karibu Safari's organisers should provide adequate information and advice in certain areas before the commencement of the trip. Two areas affected my wife and I. First, we didn't have sufficient advice about exchanging money. One of the reviews I read about KS on tripadvisor is that if you're paying in dollars and you don't have the exact change, you might be made to pay more than necessary. This was the reason I asked the KS organisers of I could pay in Kenyan shillings. For the sake of next time, kindly advise your clients that money exchanging facility will be available at the park before driving to the destination. In order to pay the exact amount, I exchanged the money with me at one of the malls. However, I was told that I was given a lower exchange rate at that mall (ksh 98/$1 instead of ksh 100. Even though, the exchange rate by the time we went elsewhere was ksh 99.3 to $1). So, I had to pay more than necessary. A clear information that exchange facility will be available at the take off point will guide against this.
Secondly, since we're picked up from our accommodation on Monday, I was thinking we'd also be dropped off at our accommodation. Unfortunately, no one said anything about this. I was going to Langata area but I was eventually dropped off around the city centre. It took us over 2 hours to return to Langata. For future trips, kindly advise clients/tourists on return transportation to their destination. My expectation was that the driver would ask us for our destinations so that he could drop us off at the closest points. This was not done. I didn't know the right place to come down. It turned out eventually that we had already passed somewhere very close to Langata before going to the city centre. We practically had to take a cab back to where the bus already took us through. Please, try to avoid this in the future.
Overall, we had a nice experience on this safari. Thank to Sammy and thank you KS.
