Reliable safari packages for international market
Africa Flash Mc Tours & Travel
- Located In:
- Size:
- 10-20 employees (Founded in 2008)
- Member Of:
- KATO, Ecotourism Kenya & Travelife
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $100 to $500 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
In one word ... PERFECT ....
Most pleasant experience with Peter and Daniel, looking forward to visit again and make this a regular family recreational trip once political situation settles. Heads up Peter and Daniel.
Email Andrew | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great communication & guide = amazing safari!
We couldn’t rate Africa Flash McTours highly enough. They’ve been amazing from start to finish and have helped give us the best honeymoon!
Peter organised an excellent itinerary and answered all our questions extremely quickly. We communicated with Peter quite a lot during the planning of our safari as we had originally booked for 2020 but we had to postpone to 2022 due to Covid but there were no issues with this.
Simon was our guide who met us at the airport. He was always on time, friendly, was very knowledgable about the animals (and great at spotting them) and was an excellent driver! We had heavy rain during our trip and he got through roads I thought would be impassable. He also seemed to have a great network with other guides to help him locate some of the rarer animals. This meant we saw the big 5 no problem! He was a lovely guy who was great to chat to and would do anything to help make our trip enjoyable.
All the best to the team and we hope tourism returns to normal levels soon.
DE
Email Halil S | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing!
We were in December 2021 for about 12 days with Flash McTours on the road. We were two people from germany. Here we visited Masai Mara, Amboseli and Tsavo East. The whole tour was very well planned and an incredible experience! Peter answered all our questions in advance regarding the trip and our stay in Kenya. Especially due to the Corona Pandemic, the support and understanding from Flash McTours was very good and helpful. We had planned a private tour for two with a 4x4 car. It has to be said that a 4x4 car is only useful if the driver can handle it. Our driver, Edward Mathu, was incredibly experienced with driving, the environment and the individual parks. Compared to other drivers we have experienced, this is not a matter of course! Edward has an incredible sense of the behavior of individual animals, their habitat and a good knowledge about each species. He was able to orientate himself very well in the parks and knew where which animals like to stay, so that we could experience all animals. At the same time he is incredibly well connected within the guides and a great driver. We towed other cars several times during our tour and helped other guides and their tourists as they got stuck in the terrain, as not all drivers are experienced. We were always very well equipped for the game drives and this was also very well planned. Our guide also accommodated our requests when we wanted to do something different, like experience something of Nairobi or do something in the villages, so we were able to meet many locals as well, which was very important to us. It was overall a wonderful experience and we would recommend Flash McTours again and again! Especially with Edward as our driver, it was an incredibly good time where we got to experience Kenya, the environment, the people and the culture. Ask for Edward when you book here as the guide has a very big impact on the experiences you gather!
NL
Email Helen | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Attentive and trustworthy
We went to Amboseli first and stayed in lovely tented camp Tortilis , with a beautiful view and a great cook. Then to Tsavo west were we stayed in Lions Bluff, all renovated,expensive, but fantastic what a view! When you are a bird watcher Tsavo is great, but there is not as much wild life as in Masai Mara. The tour guide Simon knew a lot about wild life and birds.
Africa flash tours were all the way attentive, on time, did what they promised and even brought my forgotten hat days later to the house.
In one word what a great time we had!
EG
Email Soooh | Experience level: first safari
Friendly Organized safari
The tour operatour Peter was great! He was very Friendly and helpful while booking and organizing the tour.
The accomodation and and safari car were lovely and comfortable.
Our very friendly guide Edward made the trip enjoyable.
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Email Laura | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Unforgettable safari in Kenya!
Eight unforgettable days in Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Masai Mara Park with Africa Flash McTours and Travel. Professionalism and courtesy are the strong points of this reliable tour operator.
Our family group appreciated the excellent organization of Peter, the company’s owner, the kindness and carefulness of Edward, Simon and David, our safari guides. Thanks their good spots, we sow a lot of animals), very close (the big fives and many others and the Great Wildebeest Migration crossing.
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Email Ruben | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent and once in a life time experience
We went on a private safari to Tsavo East and Travo West, and we loved it. Our tour guide John was great. He had so much knowledge, and he could answer all of our questions and he learned us alot. We couldn't be more grateful and happy with the safari and with our guide, John. Absolutely a once in a lifetime experience, and we highly recomened Africa Flash McTours and Travel and our guide John.
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Email Ian T | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
FlashMc delivers 6-star FOUR SEASONS HOTEL customer service!
Peter Macharia will be the guy answering your phone calls and emails from start to finish. He's DA MAN as Africa Flash McTours and Travel is his baby! He delivers 6-star FOUR SEASONS HOTEL customer service! Seriously, they should hire him! If you want to go directly to the source and not have a bunch of middlemen in between, then look no further! Before I settled on FlashMC (which I kept mistakenly seeing as McFlash) I did research on a dozen companies in Kenya & Tanzania, 6 companies in Europe & another dozen companies in the USA. If you've read until now then STOP YOUR RESEARCH and look no further - you're welcome!
So Peter delivers on speedy communication that is easy to understand. He delivers on obstacles; if you have one he can help you get around it. He's KATO-bonded. He delivers on helping you do a turn key solution from the time you land until you take-off! But can he deliver on the safari? YOU BETCHA!
I met him after his guide, Anthony Kimondo picked us up and brought us to a quick snack station and to meet Peter (see photo). All the lodges and tented camps were as advertised. FlashMC's website is transparent about choices of accommodations, upcharges, travel times, etc. Many other websites were "contact us for pricing" or some such malarkey (never used that term but trying to bring it back - LOL).
We did a 10 day Kenya & Tanzania LUXURY tent & lodge experience. The title says "11Day Best of Kenya and Tanzania Group Camping Safari" because I could no longer find this option. You may see it listed as "Great African Rift Valley Safari" on his FlashMcTours dot com web site. We chose the "Luxury Package" over the "Standard Package."
Anthony, our guide, smiles from ear to ear and with his eyes. He's 45 and has a wife and kids at home; it was nice to gain some insight into Nairobi living from him. He's genuinely happy and laid back enough to make sure this is all about you! You want to start at 6:30 am? No problem! You want to start at 9:30 am? Hakuna Matata! At breakfast, all the other private guides wanted to sit with happy Anthony! On safari, all the other private guides wanted to say hello to Anthony and share with him what they saw. He's like the MAYOR of the Maasai Mara! Oh, and he knows his stuff! He has eagle-eyes, his head is on a swivel but yet safety first!
When we got to the Kenya-Tanzania border at Isibania, Kenya, the crossing was pretty simple. They were already protecting against CoronaVirus (CoViD-19) even tho, at the time it was rampant in the rest of the world but for Africa! Each country protects its own tourism so there are arrangements for a hand-off to another outfit. Peter uses Emanuel at Tanzania Joy and his guide was PrayGod (not misspelled). PrayGod is 31 and has a wife and new (adorable) baby son at home in Moshi. PrayGod was a thinking-man's guide! You wanted superficial knowledge about an animal; he got that! You wanted to go deep about the eco-system? Just sit back and listen to the professor! He was college-educated in this area and it showed. He used his radio for information but also used his all his senses to search for evidence so instead of looking for the lion, he listened for the baboon in the tree. He once spotted a black rhino in Ngorongoro that must have been 5 km away. PrayGod was also flexible and patient!
Thank YOU Anthony & PrayGod!
What would I change? Well we saw 28 of the 30 animals that were on the check list (attached). 93% seems like you don't need to change anything but here's my take:
LODGING:
1) The hotel chain SAROVA is INCREDIBLE! They make you feel like family. Like genuine family you love and not faking it. We stayed in 2 locations and any chance I would to stay in more would be my choice. The Mara Sarova Game (LUXURY TENTED) Camp may have been one of our highlights!
2) The hotel chain Serena is very good. A blend of African welcoming hospitality and American service efficiency.
3) In Amboselli, we stayed at Oltukai Lodge though Peter's 1st choice was Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge; Oltukai was not bad and the scenery was magnificent as were the velvet monkeys but it seemed a bit 'rookie' compared to Sarova and Serena. In retrospect, we should have stayed in the Serena property.
ITINERARY:
1) Amboselli to Lake Nakuru National Park was a LONG day filled with a lot of peripheral Nairobi traffic so not so interesting. We saw much there including the White/Wide Rhino but not sure it was worth THIS drive.
2) Maasai Mara to Serengeti was also a LONG DAY. We had to drive hours North West to the crossing and then hours South West to the Serengeti and then much further to get to our lodging. We were warned that this was the longest day and to consider a flight from Maasai Mara airstrip to the Serengeti. Peter would have arranged it and maybe we should have considered it more closely. NO REGRETS tho!
3) Ngorongoro: We were there for one night - I would have made that 2! If we had to 'steal' from somewhere else, it would have been to ditch Lake Nakuru (1-day) or to poach (okay, bad word) one of the 3 days from Maasai Mara.
CAR/TRUCK:
Your cheapest option is a safari-modified mini-van. As soon as we heard that the Toyota Landcruiser had more comfortable seat/ride, we chose the up-charge. Here's a minor thing we did not know: There are 2 styles of Landcruiser - The standard 3-row & the extended cab 4-row. In Kenya we had the 4 row and in Tanzania we had the 3 (you can see one of the attached pictures side by side). Well we were 2 people so space was not an issue but I will just mention that the 4-row has windows that are larger and 'portrait-mode' vertical rectangles to better see out of whereas the 3-row windows are more square or 'landscape-mode' horizontal. In comparison to the mini-vans both our Landcruisers had much better visibility!
The book with the best stories should be your passport and FlashMc Peter delivered! Thank YOU Peter!
Email Stacey | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Top Marks for the Team
I arrived to Nairobi at 3am at a bus stop, I had been travelling for 2 days from Addis, Ethiopia. When I arrived Peter came to pick me up and sorted me a hotel for a few hours to freshen up.
We later had breakfast on the go and he handed me over to my Safari driver/guide John. I had chosen a 4 day Safari with an additional walking safari option. We stopped there first. It was amazing. After a short trip across lake Nakuru, spotting Hippos and fish eagles I was walked through the reserve getting up close and personal with giraffes, wildebeests, zebra's and antelope. We continued onto lake NAIVASHA I think. Accommodations were gorgeous and so was the food. We went on an afternoon game drive saw 3 of the big 5 and had dinner. Started early the next day, breakfast and a morning game drive leaving the park headed to The Masai Mara national reserve. We spent 2 nights at the luxury tented camp site which was divine. Food and service were amazing and there was plenty of action on the game drives, animals get proper close! I also opted to visit a traditional Masai Villige on the way out which was a nice way to end the trip.
All in all the accommodations were spot on, all the food was great, service was better and I saw a lot of animals!
And as a solo female traveller, I always felt safe and that's quite important.
Money well spent for memories that will last a lifetime.
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Email OZo | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Needs improvement
The Masai Mara is an incredible place with incredible animals and landscapes. Peter was excellent at communicating with us in a timely manner to answer all our questions and set up our itinerary for our safari trip.
However we were not satisfied with the behavior of our driver who tried to convince us to enter and exit the park at the times we suggested. We think he was doing this in order to avoid paying the park fees for one day (each entry fee is valid for 24 hours). However we wanted to have as much time as possible in the park, as per what we had paid for, and in accordance with park timings. When we asked to stay in the park a bit longer than the time the driver was suggesting, he proceeded to avoid driving us out of the park through the main gate and instead drove us off track and trespassed through the Masai village at high speed. There were small children on the path and adult men and women (who carry sticks) started yelling at our van and throwing stones as the driver sped through. This was extremely embarrassing for us, as well as dangerous, as it was very dark and there were small children in the way.
Then the driver stopped and a man who seemed to be a Masai chief entered our car and spoke to our driver the entire way back to our hotel. We don't know what they negotiated or what they were talking about, since we don't speak their language and our driver wasn't communicating anything with us.
We hope Flash McTours will work on improving their services. This kind of experience is not conducive for a pleasant safari experience. It is unsafe and likely to make your visitors feel very nervous and uncomfortable. Furthermore,
It is essential that safari companies follow park rules and regulations and respect the Masai community, and their land.