The Wayfairer team training in our UK office
Wayfairer Travel
- Offices In:
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United Kingdom
United States
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2012)
- Member Of:
- ATTA, ATOL & ABTOT
- Tour Types:
- Custom luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $1,017 to $2,577 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
Your request will be sent directly to the operator
If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
Email Ginny | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Family Safari Experience
Wayfairer Travel planned an amazing trip for a family which lived to our every expectation and more. The lodges we stayed in were superbly located and Excellently appointed. The views from Rhino Ridge were incredible, giving tempting glimpses of the safaris awaiting. Thonga Beach Lodge is located on an incredible Indian Ocean beach which stretched for miles and often was deserted.
Menus were varied and imaginative. The policies employed by the Lodges to employ staff from local villages is very beneficial to the communities and it was enriching to meet local people.
IM
Email Sarah | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A brilliant family trip of a lifetime
From my initial telephone conversation with Thea until my follow up call with Carmen when we arrived back home the experience and organisation was outstanding. Definitely the best family trip we’ve ever had and the organisation and communication from the wayfairer team was second to none. Heartily recommend!
Great Tanzanian Adventure
Wayfairer Travel set up a wonderful trip for me to sister lodges Lake Manze and Madonya Old River on the southern circuit and flights with Coastal Aviation. From booking to the last flight back to Dar Es Salaam every minute was first class. Pre-trip service by Wayfairer was super and both lodges, game drives and flights exceeded my every expectation. Trip of a lifetime!!
Email Abigail Vilojen | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fantastic holiday, excellent service from Wayfairer
I used Wayfairer to book a 2 week self-drive holiday in Namibia. We are UK citizens living in South Africa currently and when I started looking at accommodation and travel options for Namibia realised fairly quickly that, as we wanted to visit a number of destinations (8 over 2 weeks), it would be better to use an agent, so I contacted a number of tours companies via the Safari Bookings website. Most companies responded with generic offerings. Wayfairer were the only company that contacted me to ask questions about the type of holiday and experience we were looking for and after some initial email contact, arranged for one of their agents to call me so we could discuss further. We explored some options and in a fairly short time they had come back to me with a truly tailor-made itinerary, based on our personal preferences. Although they are a UK-based firm, they use a local agent in Namibia (ATI) who were also excellent.
We kept in regular contact from booking to the trip itself and they assisted with lots of queries and additional services like restaurant bookings.
The trip itself was a fantastic experience. We were provided with everything we needed on arrival, from airport collection, to having our hire vehicle delivered to our B&B, a personalised map and itinerary and helpful extras like a cooler box and ice-packs for our long road trips and a pre-paid cell phone, programmed with the numbers of all the places we were staying.
All of the accommodation was superb and the whole trip was smooth sailing. Namibia is truly an amazing country and I wouldn't hesitate to use Wayfairer again.
CH
Email Annie Kennedy | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent from start to finish
I couldn't recommend Wayfairer Travel any higher, they were outstanding. I would definitely put that down to the people I interacted with. I had placed enquiries with a number of travel agencies (through the Responsible Travel portal) on a Sunday night and Cat was immediately on the ball, contacting me on Monday morning. We spent 45 mins on the phone and she asked so many detailed questions. So when it came to putting our varied itinerary together she was spot on!
She was incredibly engaging, professional, responsive and a pleasure to work with.
(Other travel agents responded days later and I was very happy to tell them they had missed the boat!)
Once our trip was booked we were then in touch with Carmen who was also great.
I felt that they were available at any time if i had any issues, questions, queries and really had confidence in their support.
Carmen checked in with us a couple of days into our trip and also after the trip where I was very happy to feed back on the different experiences we had.
I would highly recommend Wayfairer to anybody!
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Email Hanna | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Fantastic safari experience!
Time on our safari was fantastic! We loved that Wayfairer set us up with Basecamp Wilderness camp. Their mission, involvement in conservation efforts, and investment in the Masai people was wonderful to hear about and we felt very glad to support their company. 4 days, 3 nights was a great amount of time to be on safari. We saw so many incredible animals - including 16 lions, a jaguar, and 6 cheetah! There was a little bit of confusion about when we were leaving from the staff, but we got it all cleared away.
Comforting
Excellent and the organizations were amazing. The food was wonderful and there were many activities available.
Email Natalie Rixon | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Overall, they completely delivered!
From the beginning engagement I was completely won over by Thea, she was fantastic at painting the perfect honeymoon meeting our needs and budget.
I must be completely honest and there was a slightly bumpy middle, but this was mostly due to flights (out of their control) and then one or two other things. However the understanding and extra effort that went in did not go unnoticed.
We then had completely open minds going on the honeymoon as with the slight bumps, we weren't sure, however we needn't have worried. IT WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD! The recommendations that Thea were made were not only perfect, but they were the best of the best. Safari at Ol Seki was amazing and we had the most magical time. We then went on to Zuri Zanzibar, just the most amazing hotel I have ever seen and stood out amongst all the others on the same beach. With what had happened in the journey, it seems Wayfairer had gone out of their way to make sure everyone knew it was our honeymoon and we got treated like royalty the entire trip. I was truly blown away and now completely gutted to be home. Thank you and we will be using again!
Email Rebecca Frost | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent, professional, friendly service which made such a perfect trip.
The details of the itinerary made sure that the trip met all expectations and beyond. Everyone invioved gave an incredible service and we felt teally looked after. A truly wonderful experience!
Email Jill | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
An Incredible Safari/Beach Holiday in South Tanzania
Thank you to Tom and, more recently, Carmen for organising such an amazing holiday! We had been on safari about 10 years ago in Kenya and were very keen to do another one with our friends but didn't want to share the wildlife with lots of other vehicles!!! Tom Blakey of Wayfairer travel recommended a very reasonably priced (compared to the larger well known companies) two centre safari in Selous and Ruaha, South Tanzania with a 5 night stay on Mafia island and the possibility of seeing whalesharks. The whole trip ran like clockwork and we had an amazing time at both Selous and Ruaha camps, seeing loads of wildlife without many other vehicles turning up and even swam with whalesharks off the coast at Butiama Beach! I would definitely recommend Wayfairer travel to anyone thinking of organising a safari holiday.