I Artist Adventure Team
I Artist Adventure
- Office In:
- Size:
- 5-10 employees (Founded in 2019)
- Member Of:
- TALA, TANAPA & NCAA
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $300 to $1,200 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
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Reviews
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Email Joakim | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good
We had a really good experience with the safari tour! Really good guide, chef and very friendly people. But at first we meet some problems in the first park because the paperwork between some operators was late. Also we think that the breifing can be more informative, for example going through day by day and tell tips för wearing and such. In the camp of ngorongoro it was really cold and we was not really prepared.
Email Seka | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent wildlife access and a standout guide
We added this safari to our honeymoon late, and I Artist Adventures pulled it together on short notice and landed us in the northern Serengeti just as the Great Migration was moving through. We flew in directly from Zanzibar and split four days between the northern Serengeti (two days), the central Serengeti (one day), and Ngorongoro Crater (half day). We saw the migration and all of the big five.
Planning was easy. Maria, our coordinator, ran communication over WhatsApp and answered quickly and warmly throughout booking. That responsiveness carried onto the ground: when beer we had discussed in advance was not stocked on our first day, she had it fixed by the next, though it did take a drive into town to sort out.
Our driver and guide, Jimmy, was the highlight. He knew how to put us in position, asserting himself at a sighting so we had a clear line rather than a view of someone else's roof rack, and he worked the radio network with other drivers to track down what we specifically asked to see. He dropped everything to get us to a mother cheetah with five cubs. That is the kind of thing that makes a safari. Where he was lighter was interpretation - strong on finding animals, less so on telling us much about them once we were parked.
My one real piece of advice is to nail down specifics before you sign, because a few things in the proposal ran ahead of what actually showed up. The lodging we originally picked turned out to be both unavailable for our dates and priced optimistically, so we chose from a set of alternatives - fine on price and well within our budget, but a step behind what we thought we were getting. The Land Cruiser was noticeably older and more rickety than the vehicles around us, and the A/C we were told to expect between game drives was not there.
A smaller note on the first afternoon. Our flight ran three hours late, which is nobody's fault, and we asked to keep lunch quick so we could get into the park. A full sit-down setup went ahead anyway, and the sundowner that followed was a flat spot with no real sense of where we were or why we were there. My wife is vegan, and her meals were handled without fuss, just without much flavor.
We would book with them again, with an upgraded vehicle and the lodging confirmed before we commit. The thing we came for was excellent, and Jimmy is a large part of why.
