Moonstroll Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2016)
- Member Of:
- HATAB, BOGA & BTO
- Tour Types:
- Custom budget & mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $355 to $755 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Roberta | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent!!!!
Perfect organization, very competent staff, comfortable and well-equipped tents. The driver, Dalyos, is truly knowledgeable, attentive to the guests' needs, and very polite.
Chef Midoh cooks excellently, and Chief Kennedy made sure everything ran smoothly. The other two staff members (Jonathan and Gaety) who took care of everything else were very kind and efficient. Overall, I recommend this tour.
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Email Stefania Motta | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Professionality, responsiveness and kindness
Our safari was organized down to the smallest detail, and the schedule was strictly followed. We even had a change in the visit to one reserve because of heavy rains, flooding, and the flooding of some tented camps.
Moonstroll took care of modifying the tour so that the overall travel plan was still maintained, without unnecessary or repeated transfers, and we were able to see a large number of wild animals.
The tour and the camps were often exclusive to us, in beautiful savanna locations. The service was excellent: there were four of us guests, and we had a second jeep, a second driver, one cook, and two camp assistants with us.
Reliability was 100%, and the value for money was excellent. I highly recommend it and would gladly do the tour again.
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Email Ellis | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent tour! A dteam!
Everything was well organized: on time, accordino to the plan but with the right flessibility. The driver Dylos was super (expert, available and lovely with us). The camps were in fantastic location and “private location” just for us (not share with other Tourist). The team (Kennedy, chef Midoh, Jonathan and Gaety) was so carefull polite and nice with us: wake up every morning with Kennedy “good morning” and clean water for washing; coming back from the safari the hot shower was ready for us, the fire for aperitive looking the moon and them dinner (excellent chef Midoh always listening to our need, one of us vegetarian).
We saw so many many animals (Lions Chita Bufaos il pass zebra giraffe a )with Dylos and different parc (The Bush in this period is at its maximum). Some days we had breakfast in the Bush (one with a group of giraffes around us) and twise also the lunch server with table and chairs in fantastic contest (during the transfer from one park to the other). Er aso had mokoro tour in the okawango river with elefants flowers and hyppo, and a spectaculare private boat tour in Chobe (bewtween Botswana and Namibia coast). At the end Victoria Falls: incredible “show”. All the lodge selected by Moonstroll were clean and comfortable. So …..tks Moonstroll and team for this wanderful dream!
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Email Fernando | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Authenticity and professionalism
A fantastic adventure with an amazing team! Everything was perfect for anyone wanting a personal and authentic experience! We were treated very well by everyone on the team, who were super friendly and professional! And a special thank you to Dylos, he was truly spectacular!
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Email Filipa | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
10 day safari
We are finishing the 10 day safari and we still can't believe the trip we just took. the guide Dylos and the camp team were amazing. always concerned with providing the best. the guide made an effort every day to show us all the animals, always attentive and knowledgeable. Cook Midoh made real delicacies all week. There was never anything missing, coffee and tea were always available, a complete breakfast, morning snacks and wonderful meals. The rest of the camp team treated us like kings, our tent was always spotless and we had hot water every morning and for showers whenever we wanted. the accommodations in kasane and victoria falls were great with teams that were always friendly and efficient. everything organized to the smallest detail. We recommend it without any doubt. Thank you very much for everything.
Email Luca | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An incredible way to experience Botswana!
I originally found the itinerary we did back in 2022 - a 14 days safari from Maun to Kasane, covering CKGR, Makgadikgadi, the Okavango, Moremi, Khwai, Savuti and Chobe.
Even though that tour doesn't appear on the website anymore, Monametsi was super nice and was able to arrange it for us - making it the most incredible trip!
The itinerary was very clear and I found communication on WhatsApp perfectly smooth while planning the trip. The team looking after us were very knowledgeable and all lovely. They catered for vegetarian food and cooked some of the most amazing food, not just boring rice and veggie. From ratatouille, to veggie lasagna, they even baked me a birthday cake in the savanna. We were super impressed!
The areas you end up visiting are the same one from the fancy lodges, but we actually preferred our safaris much more! People from the lodges tend to go back earlier to rotate guests, while we were able to stay out for longer, which increased our chances of seeing all the animals.
We saw everything, from leopards to cheetahs and even wild dogs. Having a local guide who can speak with the other guides on the radio is a massive advantage compared to the self-driving safaris.
All in all, we felt this type of package gave us the best experience in terms of seeing animals and experiencing nature, while keeping the cost much lower compared to the lodges.
I cannot recommend them enough!
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Email Luis Díaz Pérez | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great experience but some points to improve
Communication: Monametsi is the point of contact, easy to talk with him either email or whatsapp but sometimes it may happen that he is outside on safari and that can delay a bit the information.
Profile of visitor: Couple (2 people) on a private safari trip.
Service: All correct, they are an integrator of services where they carry their own transportation inside botswana. At Zimbabue where we were picked, the service runs on the local lodge. Lodge was ok, but you expect a bit better when price is around 350 US dollars per day per person.
Also, it may interesting on advice that Victoria falls stroll takes around 2 hours. If you rather do some activities (extremely expensive compare if you do this in Europe) as ziplines etc. maybe 2,5 days, so you can economise as we may have done doing that in our day of arrival and move to Kasane or advice to profit a early flight over or the rafting activities.
Kasane boat was nice, done with an external company (Kalahari Tours) and we stay in a nice lodge (Nxabii Cottages) where we stayed a night for a morning game drive and transfer to Savuti.
Savuti totally deserves one or two nights, it depends if you can arrive to see the afternoon game drive, maybe you can just stay one night or two nights and take a flight to Maun to avoid the transfer to Moremi game reserve.
Moremi game reserve has the added point of the mokoro trip, which is a nice experience but really similar game than in Savuti, in our case less. So maybe if you are a regular visitor trying to have the safari experience, with one day should be good.
Support team is great, food is really good, the camping is nice, they are equipped with all that should have. Nothing to add here.
Here comes the negative I do see on the way the safaris are establish, transfers are done on these land cruiser modified to improve view during game driving making them last too long and quite uncomfortable. Also, when the support team has another one on camping place, that alternatively can be used for the game driving and use a smaller one for transfers.
- Transfer to Savuti was around 5h, it is 20km/h average when possibly with a smaller RAV4 or other 4x4 should have been 2.5h. When we arrived, since the transfer took that long we went directly to the game drive without passing by the camp, this end up in getting lost, arriving 1h in delay to the camp and got freeze not having the possibility to have a shower.
- Transfer from Savuti to Moremi, took around 6h-7h for the same reason, car is not the more appropiate when you can do this with a couple in a smaller car, this made that we rather not doing the game drive at our arrival.
Main important points:
- Well organised, we had a great experience. Mona communication and support was good. Overall prize is ok, neither hell of expensive, neither cheap.
Cons:
- Transport improve and maybe adapt the fees to the service. Overall, because economizing on timings and transportation, it may do more accesible the experience.