We went to kenya in December. Alot of people said it was the off season however we saw amazing wildlife and the weather was gorgeous. Accommodations were great however our experience at the mpata safari club was not great. Our guide Daniel was great!
Aleksandra Grubin
RS
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December 2018
Reviewed: Jan 11, 2019
Wildlife - amazing to see animals in their natural habitat. Sounds, scenery - magical Kenya. Camps and lodges great, very nice people, good variety of food and excellent coffee. My guide Eustus from Beacon Safaries, went above and beyond duty to help me see elephants, elephants, elephants and enjoy my 50th birthday. Unforgettable trip to Amboseli, Tsavo West and Tsavo East!
Troy
NP
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Jan 8, 2019
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Amazing wildlife and scenery - Kenya's National Parks in December
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Our family of 4 went on holiday during the winter school break - we visited 3 national parks - Amboseli, Samburu, and Mara, with a day in Nairobi on either end. Overall the trip was excellent and easy. As first time travelers to Kenya, we decided to go high-end and use a tour agency to book everything, but with some experience we could have saved a few dollars and put the pieces together ourselves. In Nairobi, we visisted the Blixen Museum, the Sheldrake Elephant Orphan Center, and the Giraffe Center - felt they were all worth it. In each park, we did a morning and evening game drive and saw lots of wildlife including 1 cheetah, a pride of lions, and luckily a leopard very close up in Samburu. The guides were knowledgeable and very attentive. Our 12-year old got a little bored and skipped a few game drives (in the mornings particularly), and the trip would have been just as nice doing just the evening game drives. In terms of accommodation, we stayed at the Amboseli Serena Lodge
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(excellent), Samburu Shova (lovely just next to the river), and the Mara Serena (amazing view of the plains). The Mara Serena had a water pipe break while we were there and our room didn't have water for 24 of the 48 hours. While the hotel was very nice about it and apologetic, they offered no compensation/benefit, which I found odd. We had to use bathrooms in the lobby and showers in the gym which were not so far away.
David
QA
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Jan 7, 2019
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Amboseli safari with Beacon Safaris - fantastic!!!
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What a great time! From the well written communications for booking the trip via email with Robert, thru easy online payment to a great driver in Kevin, we had a great time going on a three day safari in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, all organized through Beacon Safaris. They arranged to have the driver pick us up from our golf course hotel west of Nairobi and took us straight to the safari camp called Kibo Safari Camp, a luxurious tented camp that I highly recommend. The safari itself was excellent with an abundance of animals. Kevin definitely knew where to look and he is very knowledgeable about them. Overall, it was a great trip and I highly recommend Beacon Safaris.
Åsa Ygland
SE
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Jan 6, 2019
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fantastic
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Everything was perfect and people were so friendly and nice
Ray
PH
Visited:
July 2018
Reviewed: Dec 31, 2018
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: over 5 safaris
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It has everything from the greatest concentration of animals, to incredible scenery with a lot of variety. It also geared for tourism, which makes it that be easier to get around.
Elena
AU
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Dec 30, 2018
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| 35-50 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Great country to do safari!
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Great country to go for safari. The big 5 and more. Maasai Mara was great!
Mhd
FR
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Dec 25, 2018
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| 20-35 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Great moment during my 3 days Safari
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I had a great time during my 3 days SAFARI as i was able to see cheetah, leopard, and the rest of the big five.
The organization was perfect and everything was done as i expected.
I was picked at my hotel the day of the departure and dropped off at the airport at the end of the Safari.
I definitely recommend to have a Safari during a trip to Kenya, this is real wild life!
Tracey Braun
CA
Visited:
December 2018
Reviewed: Dec 18, 2018
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime
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We decided to book our Kenya experience ourselves and not use a travel agency in Canada. The safari bookings website was a great help.
I send off e-mails to several companies and only heard back from a few. Tropical Vacations from the start was great at communicating and finding out what we wanted.
What we had thought we wanted and what we ended up with, we could not have been more thrilled.
We ended up with 6 days and 5 nights of the best time ever.
We managed to see Amboseli, Masa Mari and a few other parks.
We saw Kilimanjaro At sunrise and sunset. We saw the big 5 and came home with over 2,000 photos.
Matthew from Tropical Vacation met the needs of the three of us. One person in our group is a birder and he made sure she got to see many new birds to add to her list.
We are glad we followed his advise to upgrade our accommodation as we heard after some of the places we
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had picked were pretty rough. We did not go luxury and for the fraction extra we paid for mid luxury and to be a private group of three was well worth the small extra.
We thought this would be our onetime trip Africa, but we are already talking about going back.
Kanishka Soni
IN
Visited:
November 2018
Reviewed: Dec 14, 2018
Great trip. Experienced guide. Simple food. Scenic beauty. Perfect combination.
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Since our guide was experienced and enthusiastic about showing us all the animals, he went the extra mile to do so. He succeeded and made us fall in love with wildlife.
The food was simple. Less oily. Less spicy. We ended up losing weight