"Benson Safaris: Thrilling Adventures Await!"
Benson Safaris Tanzania
- Office In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2006)
- Member Of:
- TATO, TTB & IGS
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $300 to $1,200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Randi and Sveinung | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Efficient online contact and booking. Extremely competent guide on animals and nature
For us this tour to Serengeti and Ngorongoro was an adventure for life. The guide was a fantastic animal spotter, he knew where he could find the various species and had very good knowledge about nature and history of the sites. The idea to overnight in tents seemed a bit scaring for us in advance, but proved to be the best way of exploring the animal life in the parks. Also the standard in the tent camps were outstanding.
Thanks to Benson company for giving us this experience!
The communication with the company in advance were excellent, since they had appropriate routines for providing offers and efficient financial transaction practices. The responded rapidly to any questions from our side.
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Email RH | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good experience and seamless arrangements
Benson has been helpful throughout the arrangement of our safari & trekkinh trips. It took us a while to fix the whole plan and it was well worth it. We would recommend Benson safaris for your coming travel, and in particular, Peter as your safari guide.
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Email Nico | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our honeymoon could not have been more perfect.
After reading Benson’s reviews on this website, we contacted him about a two-week honeymoon in Tanzania (one week Safari, one week in Zanzibar at the beach). Benson responded within a few hours with two different offerings, each containing additional options we could pick. Although he is specialized in Safaris, he managed to organize a very beautiful hotel in Zanzibar, too.
After discussing some details with Benson, we booked our trip nine months ahead and payed a deposit. Benson sent the confirmation that he received money, which is a very good service, as it was not an insignificant amount.
Our plane landed in Arusha with almost 3 hours delay, but the driver, Zablon, had been waiting for us that long. He was very welcoming, helped us with the baggage and gave a quick and funny introduction to Swahili while driving us to our hotel.
On the next day, Goodluck, our safari guide and driver for the upcoming week picked us up. While driving to the first national park, we realized that we forgot our wallet (money, credit card, bank cards, identity card) in the hotel safe. Within an hour, Benson himself went to the hotel and looked for it. He kept it in safe custody for some days. This is exemplary for Benson’s commitment to his job. Thank you very much!
Goodluck showed us around the national parks with great knowledge about the animals, plants and the history of the country. He drove very securely and listened to the ranger’s radio to know where to look for animals. Without him, we would have passed a lot of animals without notice; he has really good spotting capabilities. Goodluck let us as much time as we liked to observe the animals and did not hurry from one spot to the other. We enjoyed that and often saw lot more as other tourist groups stressing around to mark the “Big Five” with a tick as fast as possible.
The jeep was designed for 7 people (+ driver), so the two of us had plenty of space. We were provided with cold water, cola and other drinks all the time and there even was a (good) binocular we could use. Extra cushions helped to soften the “african massage” on dirt roads.
All the hotels somehow knew that we were honeymooners and gave us their most beautiful rooms with very romantic flower decoration. We were really amazed!
After the safari, we flew to Zanzibar for another week. Again, we were picked up at the airport. The next day, we had a very informative tour around Stone Town before we were taken to our hotel at the east side of the island. For this drive, we met Taib from “Authentic Zanzibar Tours & Safaris Ltd”. He was contacted by Benson to care for us while in Zanzibar and he did an excellent job. Taib told us so many things about politics, the ups and downs of the country and generally about life in Tanzania. With Taib, we did day excursions to the Spice Farm, Cheetah’s rock and Jozani Forest.
To summarize, we had a perfect trip to Tanzania and Zanzibar. We are really glad that we booked our trip with Benson and can highly recommend it. He and his crew cared about us very well! Thanks again!
Excellent safari with a very experienced guide.
All was fantastic. The service planning the safari was patient and responded to all our questions. Good range of parks with sensible amount of driving each day. Hotels excellent. Particularly liked hotel in Stone Town although tour a little too long.
Francis was an outstanding guide. His knowledge of animals/birds was outstanding and made the trip[.
Email Sally | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We had an excellent safari guide who was extremely knowledgeable.
Communications were clear and very useful. We were very well informed before the trip and the level of expertise provided by our guide was excellent.
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Email Christian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The perfect adventure of a lifetime! Benson safaris will always be my go to for the best of Africa.
Benson Safaris absolutely made her trip the most memorable one. Their hospitality, and the willingness to make our trip extraordinary, will not soon be forgotten. Peter was your tour guide, and I hope that when we return again next year, he will still be. I would recommend Benson safaris, for anyone looking to explore Africa, and have the best safari possible. Thanks again for everything.
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Email Wes | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Time, Great Adventure, Above what I Envisioned
We were going to Kenya to do some days of service for our company and I wanted to combine a safari as it has always been on my bucket list. I did quite a bit of research. Our travel agent gave me a couple of safari companies, but looking at them they were pretty expensive because they were out of country companies so the markup seemed high. I looked for local safari companies in Tanzania and came across Benson Safaris. We went with the luxury option, 7 day safari. The trip was above my expectations. Our guide, Peter, was knowledgeable, patient (let us stop whenever we wanted), had amazing eyesight (picked out things where we needed binoculars :) and fun. We went to three parks, Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngoronomo Crater. Plan to spend a lot of time traveling from one park to another if you do this trip. Benson, the owner, was very responsive with updates, organizing etc. I highly recommend. this company!
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Email Wyatt | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent planning and organization for the trip of a life time
I chose Benson Safaris to organize our safari because of the company's excellent online reviews and his prompt and thorough communications in initially planning the trip; every email I sent Benson was replied to the next day (which is immediate given the time difference between Tanzania and the USA).
We did a safari tour as well as a few days on the beach in Zanzibar. Benson lived up to his positive reviews and exceeded our expectations at every point in planning the trip.
Our safari guide, Richard, was with us for five full days and really made the trip amazing and special. He was knowledgeable, friendly, great to talk with, and knows the parks and the wildlife extremely well. He navigated us thorough the parks with a deft alacrity that kept the trip exciting and entertaining at every moment. Richard showed us all the big five and we saw few cheetahs with a kill and a pride of lions with a kill -- totally amazing to see. The safari camp accommodations were uniformly awesome -- the safari camps in the bush were surprisingly well appointed and the hotels in the cities were really posh, in every place the food was great.
In Zanzibar, everything was handled very well. Hotel pick ups and transit around the island was seamless and perfectly taken care of. Again similar to our safari experience, Benson placed us in great locations with amazing views, activities and staff.
Throughout all the planning, choosing various options for the trip, and then during the trip Benson was available and responsive and a model of superb customer service.
In short, if you are looking for an amazing trip in Tanzania and Zanzibar; Benson is your man. I would recommend him to anybody looking for a quality trip to see one of the most amazing experiences in the world.
Thanks Benson, you made this trip more amazing than we had expected.
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Email Stian Holte | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
We were very well taken care of and accomodated in the very best hotels. No complaints so ever!
We were a family group of six, including grandparents and children, experiencing the adventure of our lives and we were very well taken care of by Benson Safaris guides. Zanzibar was wonderful, and our guide and chauffeur, Tahib, was most knowledgable and very helpful. He knew a lot about history, slave trade, spices and local places and took us privately on a most interesting tour in the narrow alleys of Stone Town, showing us the historic slave market and and the impressive food and commodity market plus a lot more. Very interesting and exotic to us Norwegians! The stay at Amaan bungalows in the northern part of Zanzibar was most enjoyable. We were swimming, walking on the beach, visiting the fish market and having a good time.
Our further journey included visits to the three safari parks, Tarangire, Ngorongoro and lake Manyara, and a couple of days at the Lutheranian hospital in Haydom where our daughter Kari is involved in a medical research project. A desolate place in the highlands where Masais, wrapped in blankets, a stick in their hand, are shepherding their meager cows and goats around in the semi dessert (while talking in their mobile telephone!), and people have to walk miles to fetch water. A hard place to live. Most impressing: the road up - extremely steep and curvy, consisiting mainly of dust and bumpy gravel. But our guide and chauffeur Peter, commanding his Landcruiser, was king of the road! He was taking us safaly up to Haydom and down again and showing us the wildlife reservates. He knew a lot about the animals as well as geography and history. The wildlife was exactly like what we have already seen on television, but exciting and more fun to see it with our own eyes and photograph it with our own cameras! Peter was a very competent guide and a likeable person. We shall miss him. I can recommend Benson Safaris travel services to everybody wanting to see Tanzania!
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Email Kari | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Zanzibar + safari Tarangire, Ngorongoro and lake Manyara for family with three generations
Benson did great job on all sides of the arrangement, and more than lived up to our high expectations. He cooperates With Tahib at Zanzibar. Tahib is a really friendly and knowledgable guide. Tembo hotel and Amaan bungalows can both be recommended for accomodation. To arrange safari for three generations with age ranging from 9 to 75 could be challenging, but everything was well planned to please both children and adults. Safari itself was really nice, we saw lots of animals, and Peter was an excellent guide and driver, but it might be good to choose a time of the year witch is not as dry and dusty.