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User Reviews of Masai Mara National Reserve (501 Reviews)

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4.8383 / 5 4.8 /5
4.9112 / 5 4.7614 / 5 4.5804 / 5 4.4277 / 5

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4 star 49 / 4 49
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Male avatar icon Mike United States flag US       Visited: September 2023 Reviewed: Oct 10, 2023

Email Mike  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

The review below is the personal opinion of Mike and not that of SafariBookings.

Beatiful Park but watch out for corruption

3 / 5 3 /5
4 / 5 2 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5
We flew into Masai Mara and were held up for some time from entering the park as the agents said the network was down and they could not verify our pre-paid fees. When our guides refused to pay the bribe the network suddenly was back up and we were allowed entry. Almost immediately upon entry we were pulled over by a "ranger" who stated we had driven in an area where we should not have. Even though there were at least 7 other vehichles doing the same thing and one that was still stuck in mud, we were the only ones stopped. Our guide was threatened that we could lose our access to the park for the entire time we were to be there (2 days). In the end our guide paid the bribe and we were on our way. I stongly suspect that the officals at the airport contacted the ranger to extract our "Fee" since we hadn't paid the bribe at the airport.

We stayed in 3 other parks and never saw anything close to this corruption. It made us not feel safe in this
Read more park. While the park itself was amazing I would not go back to this park and would advise anyone wanting to visit Masai Mara to reconsider or just know that there will be "Fees" to pay.
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Female avatar icon Maria Arreba Spain flag ES       Visited: October 2023 Reviewed: Nov 6, 2023

Email Maria Arreba  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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3 / 5 3 /5
4 / 5 3 / 5 3 / 5 0 / 5

In October, there were very few animals around. Migration had already ended. However, the amount of lions we saw was very big, and we had the opportunity to watch how they behaved. The fact than migration wasn't on, reduced the number of vehicles around and we could see some lions and other animals alone.

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Male avatar icon Chris D. Australia flag AU       Visited: April 2024 Reviewed: May 24, 2024

Email Chris D.  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Not a bad place to visit but Disappointing

3 / 5 3 /5
3 / 5 3 / 5 3 / 5 0 / 5
The driver/Guide and myself left Nairobi at 0700 in the morning and drove to the Sarova Mara game Camp. We stopped on the way at the Rift Valley Lookout and a then a Souvenir shop a bit later on. Both places have clean toilets and expensive souvenirs, you can get them for a third of the price in Nairobi. The Game Camp was very nice with fast Wifi and comfortable luxury tents. They turn off the power during the day and there is no air-conditioning in the tents which get quite hot in the afternoon. Our first drive through the park started in the afternoon and we saw all the various deer, lions, elephants, giraffe, buffalo, hyena, fox and some birds. The food at the Camp was excellent with a huge buffet but they charge you for a bottle of water ridiculous but juice is free. The next day we started early at 0700 and drove around the park until 1300 when we ate a packed lunch, continued driving until 1600 at which point we returned to the Camp. We saw the same animals today and a Cheetah. We
Read more never saw a Leopard or a Rhino which was disappointing as this was one of the promises made which I think are false promises because if these animals had been in the park we would have seen them. The next day a later start at 0900 and we visited the Masai village in the Park an additional cost of $20 quite interesting and then returned to Nairobi. I would not come back here or recommend this park, there must be more interesting Parks in Africa where you can see the famous Big 5 in the wild.
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Male avatar icon Nigel Switzerland flag CH       Visited: June 2024 Reviewed: Sep 12, 2024

Email Nigel  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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3 / 5 3 /5
4 / 5 2 / 5 2 / 5 2 / 5

After all this park was made out to be we were fairly disapointed. We saw a good variety of wildlive but only small isolated groups. Mush of the terrain was burnt and void ao anything. This was not due to natural bush fires but controlled burning and it completely ruined any feeling of bush atmosphere.

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