Blue Crane Safaris Namibia
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2010)
- Member Of:
- NTB & TOSCO
- Tour Types:
- Mid-range & luxury tours with set start dates and a fixed itinerary
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $81 to $1,077 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
Blue Crane was great
Blue Crane was easy to work with and the drivers and staff were all friendly and knowledgable. I would definitely book with them again!
Email Wendy | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful, amazing, personal
Plenty of animals, accommodation excellent, guide very informative & polite & good driver.
CA
Email Gayle | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Blue Crane Safaris Namibia surpassed our extremely high expectations.
We were a group of 5 women, mothers and daughters and there are not enough words to describe how amazing this safari was. Every single detail was met, timing and pickups were perfect, tour arrangements and lodging was outstanding, and Derek, our guide, was amazing. His knowledge and obvious pride in Namibia was evident, and he explained everything we asked of him, describing history, geology, people, and of course the animals, in great detail. We saw all the animals and much more, from early morning game drives to night drives. The country is large and we would love to go back and see the areas that we didn't have time for, there is no doubt that we will use Blue Crane Safaris again!
CA
Email Jann | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Best Trip Ever!
We are a group of two moms and our three daughters, all animal lovers, who had been talking about this trip for years and finally decided to stop talking and do it and we are very glad we did, especially with Blue Crane and Derek.
There was a lot of back and forth with Blue Crane during our planning stages and they were very patient with all our requests, even when we decided to completely reverse the original itinerary. (Most of this was because we each had a daughter with serious motion sickness and we were trying to eliminate long drives).
Once we arrived in Namibia, Derek had arranged everything perfectly. The lodges we stayed in were way beyond what we had imagined and we can't stop talking about the food. None of us had ever eaten that much game before and we loved it. He even made sure our favourite beverages were in a cooler in the vehicle each day. Derek did an amazing job of dealing with two generations of crazy ladies.
The best parts though were the number and diversity of the animals we saw on our game drives. And the information about the animals Derek was able to give us. We were lucky enough to see everything from giraffes to warthogs and oryx to elephants and lions, and even the desert elephants and lions. No leopards though, so we will have to come back and will certainly book with Blue Crane Safaris. Thanks a million Derek helping us make memories with our girls that will last a lifetime.
Email Vinayak Lotlikar | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Non commercial, personal holidays, thanks to Blue Crane Safaris
This was our 3rd holidays in last 4 years with Blue Crane and everytime the experience get better. Unlike a few other safari operators i had used in the past, Blue Crane is far different in terms of organising holidays. The whole team is available to make the experience enjoyable, memorable and at any time they dont make you feel as a tourist. Good Team!!!
We look forward to holiday with them agains.
US
Exploring Namibia
All went 100% successfully on our tour. Nothing could have been better. Efficient, safe, interesting, educational, expert, and friendly. I have worked with Blue Crane in the past and I look forward to working with Blue Crane again in the future. I bring groups of U.S. teen-agers for a week or two at a time, and it is a comfort to know that all will be arranged and executed properly by Derek, Job, Traudy, Richard, and my friends at Blue Crane.
US
Email Peter | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Etosha trip with students
Over a long weekend, Blue Crane Safaris provided an excellent tour to Etosha for our group of 29 students and faculty from an American university. We camped for three nights in Etosha and saw an enormous number of animals, which was unusual for this time of year. The success of the journey was due to our excellent guides who provided all the camping gear, drove the vans and pointed out the wildlife. They also cooked all the meals, which I recommend, as this allowed us to spend more time at the waterhole near the campsite. This was the experience of a lifetime for everyone, and I was impressed enough to book a private journey with Blue Crane for my family later in the year.
IT
Email Fabio Carrera | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
One-stop shop for all Namibian adventures
Blue Crane is an extremely reliable go-to operator even for last-minute trips.
They are friendly, helpful, competent and well organized. They will go out of their way to help you.
Our 27 students took great advantage of their services which suited their budgets quite well.
They also helped me with self-catering solo trips in the far reaches of Namibia.
Excellent value and service! Highly recommended...
GR
Email Rania | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Amazing trip and service by Blue Crane Safaris!!!
I have been traveling the world for the past 15 years, and the trip in Namibia, arranged by Blue Crane Safaris, was one of the best trips we 've ever had -- and, by no exaggeration, that is largely owed to the amazing excellent organization of Blue Crane Safaris!
I decided to write this review because they are worth it, and I do believe that it would be great for everyone else to know this agency and use their services, as they offer amazing service by global standards, and at reasonable prices, and the agency is owned by a true Namibian, Derek Jacobs, with tons of years in-field experience in the tourism industry!
I have no words to express here my gratitude to Blue Crane Safaris for this dream-trip. Everything, down to the last detail, was organized with excellence.
Blue Crane Safaris as an agency did an impeccable job in organizing this trip, and at a reasonable cost too.
After having reached an absolute bottom with other agencies and the crazy prices they were offering, or the really slow (!) action they were taking, as soon as I sent the request for an offer to Blue Crane Safaris, they responded within a couple of hours with an amazing trip program, at a reasonable cost that was lower than all other agencies (for the same program/lodges/hotel inclusions), and they managed to organize our trip very last minute within 6-7 hours from the moment we sent the request, and finalize everything to the last detail.
Blue Crane Safaris gave us excellent advice and insight on the schedule we should do for the days we were there, and they treated our trip as their trip, meaning they cared for us before us -they treated this as if it was for them and not for strangers -and this personalized approach is what made it count so much.
They provided alternative options for different parts of the itinerary that proved to be a lifetime experience for us (Nhoma Lodge for the authentic San Tribe experience up north, instead of the very commercial Fiume Lodge - and Okonjima Reserve instead of other less important options that other agencies were insisting on, just and only to pump up the price of the trip offer, and which would cost a fortune and wouldn't add much to what we would have seen already by that time. We are grateful that we went to Nhoma Lodge and to Okonjima and that was information that only Blue Crane offered to us and none of the other 10 agencies I had asked for information!).
We were given an excellent private suv car, and an amazing person that was our driver and tourist guide, Richard (who is also a professional photographer!!!!), who also became our friend.
Blue Crane Safaris and our guide Richard are, for us, the best hat can guide your trip in Namibia. They are truly Namibian and their hearts beat for their clients: They will do everything they can and everything you need from them for this trip to be an unforgettable experience for you.
I have rarely seen such dedication and excellence by an agency or a tourist guide, giving so much of themselves to their clients and to the experience offered to them, to make it truly unforgettable for them.
We stayed in amazing lodges and hotels, we saw everything we could possibly imagine because our agency and our guide catered and cared for us to see everything, and we did amazing activities that were organized in the frame of our trip, all of which remain unforgettable.
Everything, from the time we would go to see a sunset or a sunrise, and when to be in the locations to avoid big tourist crowds in order to take amazing photos, to the particular lodge we would stay or the restaurant we would eat, and from the route we would take in order to spot/see animals and sceneries, to the particular activity we would do each day and each time, everything and all details were organized to the dot with excellence.
I have traveled, lived and worked with my job in more than 60 countries of the emerging world until now, ie. in Africa, the Middle East, Eurasia, Latin America and Asia. Namibia really became a dream trip because of the amazing way Blue Crane Safaris organized our trip:
They understood the kind of travelers we are, they echoed what experiences we were looking for, and they adjusted everything to fit our budget, still including all the amazing resorts and lodges that we wanted to stay at and not cutting down on these at all -they beat everyone else's crazily high prices because they are obviously more reasonable with the profit they are seeking to make, and they don't have the mentality to rip you off.
In terms of lodges, we recommend the ones we stayed at, for those seeking similar experiences at a reasonable cost: Sossusvlei Lodge, Sossus Dune, Atlantic Villa Swakopmund, Camp Kipwe (take the Suite if you can, the price difference is very small!), Grootberg Lodge, Etosha Okaukeujo, Etosha Mokuti Lodge, Nhoma safari camp, Okonjima, Windhoek many options (we stayed at Safari Hotel).
I recommend Blue Crane Safaris 100%. They can arrange any type of trip you wish, be it low budget, middle-level budget, or even a luxurious one, as they have all contacts and details in place.
Our experience with them was excellent -spotless service and great insight from their side to make our trip unforgettable.
Thank you Blue Crane Safaris, Derek and a big thank you also to our star-guide Richard who did an amazing job, for 12 days with us on the road!
Best,
Rania
SI
Email Andrej | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
reliable, highly professional and customer oriented
We did a self-made safari by professional support of Derek and his team booking the right camping sites and being available for advice and assistance when needed. Good job.