JOCKY TOURS TEAM
Jocky Tours and Safaris
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2002)
- Member Of:
- AMREF & KWS
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $50 to $200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email John | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great animals and sights!
I took the five day tour and had companions on the standard 3-days to Maasai Mara and was by myself for the last 2 days. Of course, Maasai Mara was wonderful (the optional visit to the Maasi village is highly recommended.). The intriguing part of the trip is Hell's Gate national park where you can bike and hike, a pleasant change from being in the van. Nothing like riding right by giraffes crossing the path! Yo kinda have to go with the flow. I'd recommend bring along some sealed snacks.
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Email Rubén R. Montero | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exciting and funny
It was my first safari and it was very amazing. A lot animals and very very close.
I was 3 days in Masai Mara with two different drivers: Joshua and Martin. Thank you both of them. They were very safe and good driver, very kind and funny. Thank you very much.
You can see animals on sunset, during de day and very early in the morning.
Good place to sleep and very good meal.
Very very good experience.
Reply from Jocky Tours and Safaris
Posted on Aug 25, 2016Thank you Ruben, looking forward to hosting you again
Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A once in a lifetime experience
One of our best holidays. We saw all but one of the big five game animals and many more, including watching the wildebeest crossing the Mara river. Our tour guide Joshua was excellent; he was friendly and very knowledgeable. The camp we stayed in was lovely. The staff were friendly and helpful and the tents were clean and had hot showers. The only improvement would be to stay in a better hotel in Nakuru, even if this incurs an extra fee. The Golden Palace hotel was not in keeping with the high standard of the rest of the trip and was the only let down of the five day safari.
Reply from Jocky Tours and Safaris
Posted on Aug 26, 2016Thank you very much Juliet for the positive feedback. We have noted the recommendation on Golden palace hotel and taken the necessary step of changing our partner hotel in nakuru. We highly apologize for that. Going forth we will try and advise our clients on that. Looking forward to hosting you again.
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Email Marc | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Nice safari, old and broken vehicles and poor staff
Although Safari was amazing and we get to see all animals, there's a huge room to improve in staff/drivers and vehicles. Our vehicle was broken two times, we've change to another vehicle, and this was broken again. Drivers due not explain many things, and they drive looking all the time the mobile phone, so the trip was not safe. They don't provide you waters even it's included on the price, you have to request them all the time. On a stop to a restaurant, the driver and vehicle has disappear without saying nothing with all our bags, because they have to repair the vehicle, a bad experience. Price is good.
Reply from Jocky Tours and Safaris
Posted on Sep 7, 2016Hi Marc, Glad that you loved the safari part. We unfortunately regret and apologize for the vehicle breakdowns you had and unprofessional nature of our driver guide of the day. You traveled during peak time of the season and therefore there was a strain in resources, all our guides and vehicles were full booked and therefore we had to out source the guide you used on this particular day and leased his vehicle too. Sorry for the inconveniences caused to you.
Good operator
Jockytours helped me organize a lodge safari to Amboseli, Nakuru and Masai Mara. The price was very competetive. We liked our guide: he was very knowledgable and professional. Everything was organized according to the program we had approved beforehand. The only drawback is the quality of the minivan that could have been in a better state.
Really nice driver and Group. picking up and dropping off was on time. good Company
The Safari was really good.
Wenn had a nice group and a lovely driver.
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Email Leon | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari!
Me and a friend did the safari of Jocky Tours in the beginning of October. We had a great time with a very nice driver and some cool people in our van. In the first 3 days in the Masai Mara we saw a lion, elephants, buffalo and cheetah and a lot of other cool people. In the last day at Lake Nakuru we saw the Rhino which completed the Big 5! Overall great experience, nice accommodations, good food, fun driver!
CN
Email Percy Zhang | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful experience of safari with Jocky Tours and Safaris
We had a wonderful tour of 7 days with JockyTours. We were very lucky to have seen the big-five animals in Kenya. We met 20 more lions at least. And we saw that a lion family were eating a giraffe. Lot of various animals and their mutual devouring in Masai Mala, fire-like flamingos on Lake Bogoria, leisurely elephants and giraffes with Mt. Kilimanjaro background, many unknown birds on Lake Naivasha and countless zebras and wildebeests all over the Kenya grasslands, deeply impressed us.
JockyTours is a professional company with very good credit. In order to meet our requirements, they arranged not only safari and scenery sightseeing, but also some project site viewing so that the tour had more pleasure and meaning. The guide driver is a kindly, patient and responsible man. Because of his experience, we got the more opportunities to see so many animals.
The regrets was that we had no chance to see wildbeests crossing the Mala River and catching/killing action between animals.
As for accommodation, Amboseli Kibo Tented Camp. and Naivasha Sopa Lodge were excellent, Mara Lenchada camp was average. The worst experience is: Golden Palace in Nakuru was terrible because of its noise overnight and impolite of its kitchener and servant.
Other bad experience after safari is: our cellphone was robbed in the street and we were extorted by two policemen at the airport in Nairobi. The public security and anti-corruption should be greatly improved in Kenya.
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Email Galina | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent
It was a well organized trip covering several National parks (Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Naivasha). We were pleased with our safari experience with Jocky Tours. Our safari trip far exceeded our expectations. The accommodations were wonderful luxury lodges with great facilities. I also thank John our driver/guide who was very friendly and deeply knowledgeable about parks and the characteristics of all the animals and birds. The price of safari was reasonable. Thanks to Minneh.
Highly recommended safaries with this company!
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Email Andrei Kurochkin | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A great idea of experience in the African fauna
The company had a very professional guide Richard. Perfectly speaks in Russian. Terms of service everything was organized at a very high level. Personal thanks to Richard. looking forward to visiting in 2017 :)