20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
10 days Gorilla, Chimp and Safari
I had an absolutely fantastic time with Mamaland Safaris. I completed a tour of Uganda where I saw chimpanzees, gorillas and many other animals in several different national parks. The service provided was brilliant, all accomodation was top notch and my guide was helpful and informative throughout. If you are thinking of a trip to Uganda, I would thoroughly recommend using these guys. Thank you Mamaland!
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime
I’ve been wanting to go to Africa ever since I can remember! I spent a few days researching and Google’ing on where to go, where to stay and best times of the year to visit ect. Opentourafrica was so helpful (I had loads of questions!). They organized a safari package for me and I couldn’t have asked for a better holiday! Our guide was polite, informative and had a great sense of humor!
It was an unforgettable trip, that I would recommend to everyone!
Dankjewel Opentourafrica for the amazing experience I’ll be back soon!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fabulous service from Safari Club. Best babymoon ever!
My partner and I decided to do one last (for now) big trip before we embarked on a family and wanted to head to Africa to combine a trip to see friends in Cape Town with the chance to see the big 5 in action. We spoke to a few tour operators but eventually settled on Safari Club after speaking to Paul, one of their consultants. He was incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about Africa and was able to put together an itinerary that took in everything we wanted to see and was great value for money. He really listened to what we wanted to do.
They arranged everything for us, all we had to do was get to Heathrow. Communication was great before, during and after the trip. When our flight from Maun in Botswana was delayed and risked us missing our onward connection home they kept in contact with us, our tour guide on the ground and had a back up plan in place in case we missed the connection. Thankfully we made the flight connection and never had to put plan B into action but it was comforting to know there was one.
The trip itself was amazing, after seeing the New Year in with friends in Cape Town we set off on our adventure starting at Victoria Falls which was incredible. We stayed at the Waterberry Lodge on the Zambian side of the Zambezi. We did a spot of line fishing, visited the market and of course saw the spectacular Victoria Falls.
Next stop was Botswana, and even the flight there was magical. When we boarded the pilot asked if we'd seen the falls from the air which we hadn't so he rerouted and flew directly over them, not a site I'm going to forget in a while. During the flight we saw zebra, antelope, elephants to name a few which gave us a taste of what to come. We did two camps in Botswana and both were spectacular. We saw so much wildlife, ate amazing food, drank great wine and beer and slept in the luxury under the stars.
What made this trip special was the people. Paul from Safari Club arranged such a fantastic trip that all we had to do was sit back and enjoy. The guides, hotel staff, transfer agents looked after our every need but it was never intrusive just there to help when you needed them.
I would highly recommend Safari Club if you are looking for a safari, especially if you want a tailored made itinerary and don't want to do your safari's in the back of the huge buses. Top marks. I wouldn't hesitate to rebook with them.
NL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari!
Me and a friend did the safari of Jocky Tours in the beginning of October. We had a great time with a very nice driver and some cool people in our van. In the first 3 days in the Masai Mara we saw a lion, elephants, buffalo and cheetah and a lot of other cool people. In the last day at Lake Nakuru we saw the Rhino which completed the Big 5! Overall great experience, nice accommodations, good food, fun driver!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Tekko Tours arranged an excellent trip for us. I highly recommend them.
I was highly impressed by the way that Maggie personally handled our request for the tour, the level of itinerary detail she provided, the choice of routes/parks/hotels we could use, her prompt response to our emails and her managing the late change from 8 days to 7 days when I found I had given the wrong dates for our flights coming home!
Note - we had bought our London/Nairobi flights direct from BA several months before booking this 7 day tour as an add on to our time in Nairobi.
BTW - the means of sending online payment to Tekko was easy for us to make from our UK bank account.
We thank Maggie for her great support in setting up our trip - this makes Tekko Tours stand out in a crowded safari market. We were most pleased with our service from Tekko Tours.
Sadly this level of support and organisation was missing from the 3 other Nairobi based tour operators that I had communicated with. Their poor communications and lack of detail lost them my business - but was clearly Tekko's gain.
We enjoyed the 7day tour with Stephen our driver and guide. He arrived at the start point early and throughout the trip he was always ready to go when we had agreed. He is a very good driver - we never had any concerns about the way he drove and overtaking slow vehicles was always done safely. We got on with him very well as we had a lot in common with him - which is important on a 7 day trip like this. His experience and knowledge of the parks and the animals is excellent - and this helped make the tour for us.
The Landcruiser vehicle was well suited for the roads and terrain that we covered. With just the 2 of us we had plenty of space and the viewing though the roof whilst on game drives was ideal. Indeed a group of 4 would have been accomodated equaly comfortably in the vehicle. Stephen had two minor issues with the vehicle whilst on the tour (loose battery terminal and radiator overheating). He dealt with these professionally and they did not impact our travel.
The hotels we stayed at were all good quality - but with different aspects about them that made for a most interesting time -
Ikweta Safari Camp - we had good personal service at this camp. It is a small operation (10 substantial tents) managed by Susan the American lady owner and her husband and employing local female staff. A excellent ethos. The food was very good - no choice as they freshly cooked the same dish for every one. Some fruit and veg were grown onsite. They went out of their way to provide my wife with personalised food for her upset tummy. The tented bedroom/bathroom was excellent. It was only 2Km from the main Meru park entrance so we quickly got on our game drives. However the roads to get to Ikweta were rough and potholed for many kilometers and so we arrived very shaken up after our 7 hour drive from Karen. Note - the animals were harder to find in Meru than Samburu - but it was more natural as there were very few vehicles in the park.
Samburu Sopa lodge - is well sited in the middle of the park. Excellent large bedroom with unique ventilation which kept the room cool when very hot outside. The animals came right up to the bedroom so we could see them from the bed! The food and service was good. Good choice of food options for every meal - indeed we tended to eat too much! Very few people were at the lodge whilst we were there so we had personalised service. Note electric power was off between 9am and 6pm - but this was not a problem for us. Lots of animals around - many by the lodge and lots by the nearby river.
Mt Kenya Safari Club - is a completely different up market place. It is situated right on the equator - which exceeded one of my requirements to stop on the equator. The equator runs right through the main bar! Food was taken in the Northern hemisphere and our bed was in the South. Our bedroom was a small cottage with plenty of space and well appointed. As it was cold outside (snow on top of Mt Kenya) we had the wood fire lit in our room so we went to bed cozy. Food options were the best we had on the trip. Service was good - even though this was a busy popular place. We enjoyed walking in the grounds and also our time visiting the animal sanctuary which is on site. Boniface gave us an excellent guided tour of the sanctuary.
Treetops - is an experience that I am glad we were able to have. Not the same building that The Queen (then Princess) visited in 1952 - but a most iconic place and setting especially for a Brit like me. When full it can take 80 guests - but we were 2 of only 6 guests staying that night. We had good personalised service from all staff. The food choice and quality was good. We were pleased it was not full as it would have been a different experience with so many people contained in the building. I noticed there had been days back in August & September when 70+ people were staying (mostly Chinese from the comments in the game record book). The building is set between 2 waterholes giving us easy viewing of the animals as they came to drink. We did not leave the building during our stay - security dictated that we had no unaccompanied outside walks. Our bedroom was small but OK for a one night stop. We had a good view of one waterhole from our room. Whilst we saw a lot of common animals and birds, there were no elephants, rhinos or leopards visiting at that time. The record book showed that they did come - but not always every day.
Note - all hotels we used had a good free wifi service which enabled us to keep in daily contact with our family back in the UK.
Overall we had a great time. We felt that we had an excellent experience which exceeded our expectations. We thought it was good value for money - not the cheapest maybe but a good price for the service and locations we visited. We have already recommended Tekko to our friends who live in Nairobi and I have no hesitation in recommending anyone reading this to contact Tekko to see what they can arrange for you.
Many thanks to Maggie, Stephen and Tekko Tours for fixing our wonderful experience.
NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
fantastic
we have had an excellent safari; very well organised ; very nice and comfortable accomodation; we have seen a lot; we had a fantastic and knowledgable guide, with very good suggestions for our daily programme
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
two of us with private guide and vehicle for photography at Mana Pools
Camp facilities as expected, camp staff all excellant as was food and drink. Guides super knowledgeable and drives/walks very good with some adrelin fixes thrown in. As a photographer the only grouse I have is the vehicles used have a large cab on the front, (normally customised and removed). This prevents photo opportunities over the heads of the guide /driver and also inhibits ineraction with guide/driver as communication is through a "window". Having said that it didn't really affect us as we were "only two" and had plenty of room. I wouldn't want to be sitting on the front seats on a full vehicle as undoubtedly your view would be inhibited. Still, had a brilliant time and Mana Pools is a must................will go again and Naturways if I'm sure of the vehicle utilisation.
CA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing trip with African Exposure.
We traveled with African Exposure for 4days safari and 6days kilimanjaro mountain climbing. Really was very funny, charming and kindly people. Giudes, cook and porters was very cooperative, hard workers and helpers.
I can reccomend this company to my friends and i wish to go back Tanzania.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Holiday of a lifetime
KWSS tours went way above what we expected we saw every animal possible in Kenya,Tanzania,Uganda our budget accomadation from tented Camping ,lodges,motels were all acceptable,Our drivers Zac ,David,Ossi were Fantastic full of knowledge helped us wherever possible.I highly recommend this company
NP
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing safari and unforgettable experiences in our life time.
We traveled with African Exposure for 5days safari at Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater.We had amazing safari never forget. Our Tour consultant Mr.Aidan was very fun,charming,cooperative and helpers with our guide Simon. We really enjoyed a lot with them and we recommend African Exposure to every one. We cant wait more for next year to do kilimanjaro with them fr 5days marangu route.