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35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Selous NP January 2020
We visited Selous NP in January 2020. We stayed at Mloka Lodge a new opening lodge close to Selous and Mloka Village.
It was an amazing experience of the original Africa.
The park was unforgettable we saw all the animals of Africa in their natural habitat.
Also the lodge is new and the staff are very friendly everything clean and good food.
We also visited Mloka Village with the autentic style life of an African Village.
Thanks again Obag.
We will be back soon.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
The guys and the bosses were nice enough, but logistically it was a disaster.
The communications were not good because the contact person were offline due to him being working in areas with low internet coverage, but answered when he had internet available.
We ordered 3 transfers, Harare- Vic Falls, Vic Falls- Livingstone and Livingstone- Lusaka.
Due to the company based in Zambia mixed the dates they hired a Zimbabwe based company to do Harare- Vic Falls. They came late,
drove a 14 hour ride instead of the 7 hour we ordered and demanded us to pay black marked fuel price at 50% higher cost because they had bought it at the black market. Then we understood why they drove the 14 hour route, they could charge more fuel at 50% higher price. I believe they payed the normal fuel price. (This was the Zimbabwe based company they hired.)
We stayed in Vic Falls for 2 nights, then the Zimbabwe guys should drive us to the border dropping us off and be picked up by Tafika travels in Zambia. By this time Tafika and the Zimbabwe based guys had started to fight over the the payment between them, and they didnt want to drive us before Tafika payed them. And my desperate messages to Tafika about our problem werent answered. We had already pre- payed all transfers, so we refused to pay the 800$ the guys demanded from us.
To be fair, our total payement was 960$ for 3 transfers, so the demand for 800$ for 1 transfer was redicilous, but that should have been agreed between them before the transfer, and not become our problem 5 minutes before the original departure leaving us with no transfer between the 2 countries.
The reason for using 2 companies was that we headed for Vic Falls february 9th, but the day before we understood Tafika thought we were going the wednesday 3 days later. So Tafika hired theese guys for the first half of our trip since they had no cars able to pick us up at 1 day notice. The mixed dates mentioned above.
We ended up with paying a local driver money to bring us to Livingstone, Zambia. There we met eventually the driver from Tafika. He was very nice, but had a car to small for our luggage. We ordered a car for 5 persons with luggage (5 suitcases + small bags), but the car could take 1 or 2 suitcases in the trunk. We had to pay 50$ extra for sending the luggage by bus, but only 2 out of 5 came to the hotel so 3 of us had no luggage half the Lusaka stay.
We demanded a refund for the Vic Falls- Livingstone transfer and the 50$ extra luggage cost and were told we should get that back.
After 3 months of waiting we have got only promises but no refund. My last question about the refund werent even answered. That makes me writing this review giving a 1 star. I dont like doing it since the guys were very nice and also promised a refund, but 3 after 3 months I give up.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful and Memorable
Hi James , I know it is long since i came back from Kenya. Our safari was short due to the Covid 19 that has just started but we are happy that the three days we took safari to Masai Mara was memorable. Our plan was to do mountain climbing but to the pandemic we had to take flight back home. We are also happy that we were not tested positive and we are well just hopping to come back to Kenya soon. We were happy with the accommodation and transport arrangement and we promised to come with bigger team. Debra, Tera and Nicole and I can not wait to see you soon. Evans
RO
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best Serengeti game drive safari and Zanzibar
We had the best safari of our life in Serengeti national park. Very well-organized trips through Serengeti to Zanzibar. Right from pick-up, to our stays and to our visits, everything of our tour was thoughtfully planned out and well-accomplished, better than we had imagined. I take back wonderful memories of ever smiling faces, great food and the wildlife in the Serengeti plains.
We visited the exotic and beautiful stone town and then to Nungwi beach, which was one of the most beautiful sand-beach. The Zanzibar pristine beaches, gorgeous sunsets and very respectful and friendly people, this was definitely a perfect way to end our trip after the Serengeti game drives. Sailing in the sunset to drinks and great music, walking in the long beautiful shore gives you a perfect relaxation.
Maria is a good travel consultant, and it shows through her well-planned itinerary and her professionalism when interacting with the local staffs. She is very knowledgeable and organized, and she handles inevitable travel glitches with grace.
I will love to visit Tanzania again.
Thanks a lot, Tupo Travel
Mitica
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Comfortable vehicles, experienced tour guides, adventures and enjoyable tour.
Arlanda Tours And Treavel has got very experienced and friendly tour guides, clean and well-maintained vehicles and their services are also up to expected standard. The accommodation was good and the food was delicious. It was an enjoyable and educative experience. Well done Arlanda. I would surely use Arlanda again and over again.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Tanzania great experience
We had a great experience with Incredible Africa Adventures on our tour to mountains Kilimanjaro and 3 days safari. The guides were incredible knowledgeable, experienced, professional, warm and fun people. The planning we had both was perfect, enough challenge and sufficient rest. Pretty much everything went well smoothly.
Food was simple but so so delicious. We could also rent the necessary equipment with the great help from their team. Would totally recommend and will definitely use their services when we go back to Tanzania.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic Kilimanjaro climb!
What an incredible and unforgettable adventure with Incredible Africa. We had a wonderful Kilimanjaro climbing and the lemosho route was great, the support was great and the food was delicious! I can’t recommend enough! We had a fantastic team of climbers, porters and guides. Our Lead guide Alex was absolutely brilliant and a true leader as was second lead guide Rafael, and the rest of the team. It was simply Amazing!
AT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Wonderful
Many thanks to Taswira for the wonderful time in Tanzania. With our guide Halpha all was perfect. It couldn't have been nicer. We took Tanzania with us. Thank you.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome experience, seeing all the animals, wonderful landscapes and different cultures, brilliant.
We were met at the airport by our guide Thom Nina who remained with us for the entire tour. Everything about the tour was great. It was very well organised and we had a lot of different experience's from watching the animals, ballooning over the Serengeti and visiting a Masai Village and also the Hadzabe Bushmen. Our guide really made our tour an even better experience, his knowledge of the animals was fantastic and gave us more of an insight into their behaviour, he went out of his way to make sure we saw all the animals even witnessing a lion hunt. He had a wonderful sense of humour and made the trip of a lifetime even better.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Najib was an excellent safari tour guide, I had a better experience with him.
That was my first trip in Africa and first time on safari but Arlanda Tours And Travel helped to make this experience incredibly memorable. We could tell that Najib cared a lot about customer service and making us all happy, from small details, even like providing water for the car journey to finding us the best accommodation for the best price. If I ever make a plan to come back again Africa and really hope I will, definitely useArlanda Tours again for any trips, truly a fantastic experience!