35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Rioba is the best
Our group of six traveled with Rioba for a 10-day tour, and the experience was absolutely incredible! From the moment they picked us up at the airport, to hotel arrangements, daily itineraries, and all meals—everything was perfectly organized. Rioba’s service was exceptional, and their attention to detail made us feel truly cared for throughout the trip. Best of all, their prices were incredibly reasonable!
Every day brought unforgettable wildlife sightings, making it my dream African safari come true. Without a doubt, Rioba is my favorite tour guide company in Africa—highly recommended for anyone seeking an amazing adventure.
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable experience
We just completed an unforgettable safari with Dancing Simba Safaris and couldn't be more satisfied. The experience far exceeded our expectations, both for the variety of landscapes and animals we saw, and—most importantly—thanks to our guide, Bulldozer, a true champion.
From day one, Bulldozer proved to be incredibly knowledgeable, always attentive, and with an incredible eye for spotting animals even where it seemed impossible. He explained everything to us with passion: not just the "big five," but also details about plants, birds, and animal behavior… all with an overwhelming warmth that made every day enjoyable and engaging.
The organization was always precise and punctual. Every transfer, accommodation, and meal was well coordinated. A special thanks also to the chef at the rest house who cooked delicious dishes every day.
The tour took us to magnificent places: two days in the Serengeti and one in Ngorongoro. We saw elephants up close, a pride of lions, zebras, giraffes, hippos… a dream come true every day. If you're looking for an authentic, exciting, and well-guided safari, Dancing Simba Safaris is highly recommended. And if you can ask for Bulldozer as your guide... even better!
Rating: 10/10. We'd do it again tomorrow!!!
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CN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very considerate and meticulous
This is a very professional company. The client manager has been assisting me in meticulously planning the entire itinerary. Both my friend and I are very satisfied with this trip.
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable Safari Experience
We had an absolutely incredible experience with Travel Africa Safari Agency on our 5-day group mid-range safari trip. From the very beginning, communication and service were smooth, fast, and reliable. The team was extremely flexible and made so many things possible for us along the way.
The accommodations were nothing short of breathtaking – comfortable, well-located, and immersed in nature. The price-performance ratio was more than fair for the quality we received.
A special thank you goes to our guide Malisa, who quickly became like a new friend to us. He was not only exceptionally knowledgeable about wildlife and nature but also made the entire journey fun, insightful, and personal.
We would definitely recommend Travel Africa Safari Agency to anyone looking for a well-organized and unforgettable safari adventure.
Thank you again for everything – we’ll cherish these memories forever!
NO
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Hasslefree booking, polite and easy communication and prompt follow up!
We had an unforgetable trip with Festus in Amboseli! The afternoon game drive was magical, watching the animal life in front of Mt Kilimanjaro in the sunset. Nice and relaxing stay at AA Lodge before an early morning safari - another perfect experience!
Me and my family of 5 (kids aged 8-17) could not be more happy and filled with memories for life! Thank you Festus 👏🙌
CN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Rioba Safaris is professional, patient and thoughtful.
Rioba safaris is professional, patient and thoughtful. As he mentioned in our conversation, he 100% secured our safety and our money. I arranged a trip for total 6 people and all best friends, I feel pressured when I selected tour agency. Hence, I got lots of questions before I decided to sign the contract. Rioba is always patient to my questions and quoted us 5 times for different plans. Also, he responded really fast to whatever our questions are. After the quoted price, we didnot spend 1 single dollar except the souvenirs and tips. He covered all.
Additionally, our tour guide Baraka is excellent. He is knowledgeable, kind, thoughtful and with eyes of eagle. He always can help us find the best location based on his 7 years experience. And see the animals that we barely can see in the grass. We were the one of first cars that saw the migration on Mara river from Tanzania side for this dry season.
We spent such an amazing time in East Africa. Rioba and Baraka will be my surely choice if I would come to Africa again. Thank you guys so much.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Satisfactory, but lacking.
- Booked 9 months in advance.
- Told them early on that we were 5 people (80 year old, 2 retirees & 2 younger) some of whom would not appreciate sleeping too roughly - have emails to prove it. Asked them to find accommodation that wouldn't be too rough.
- First day, upon collection, Mike said "Because we are heading into the busy season, we are having trouble finding accommodation in Tanzania that will be comfortable, so you will probably be sleeping on the floor without a mattress or pillows". A few days before, we had also asked Vinny in a text if we needed to bring pillows and he said "No". You had 9 months to sort that out!
- It was clear throughout the trip that Cover Kenya hadn't booked our accommodation because the guides never knew where we were staying until that afternoon, as we asked them.
- They did in the end find better accommodation, for a price. My husband found suitable much cheaper accommodation in Booking.com, but we had to go with their expensive options.
- We DID see all the animals we had hoped to see, and that was thanks to Kelvin's excellent communication with other drivers via radio & phone within the parks, so well done for that and thank you. Our other driver in Tanzania did not communicate with other drivers except when we stopped to speak with them in person, but luckily we'd seen almost everything we wanted to see by then.
- Kelvin, however, is NOT a tour-guide, he is a DRIVER and that was abundantly clear throughout our Kenyan safari. Not once did he tell us where we were going, what we were doing, if we needed to be dressed warmly for an activity, a briefing or how long the drive would be without us asking. He didn't learn a single one of our names, and even though I asked to see something specific, he said he would show me but didn't. We also told him an activity we wanted to do, and he tried to drop us off in a random town at night - unsafe.
- Both drivers took many phone calls while driving, I understand some of those were for the benefit of the tour (where an animal was etc), however many were private calls. Whatever the company policy is with this I don't know, however it is unsafe to drive for short and long periods with the phone in your hand, especially on those crazy roads - get a Hands-free setup, please! I saw many drivers with hands-free, just neither of ours, it is very unsafe.
- The car was "beeping" the entire time we were in it. I have a recording of it.
- I don't recommend the optional boat trip, however the walking tour with the Zoologist/Biologist was exceptional - however it was a cost that we were not told about until the last moment (and not in any correspondence).
- When we crossed the border, we were dropped off at the Arusha hotel without a word about what was going to happen, who to speak with, what time we needed to be ready etc. Once we messaged Cover Kenya, then we were told - Oh the agent will meet with you at 6:30pm. This happened twice, when we were dropped back to Arusha again, no word of what we needed to do or where to go.
- Booked an All-inclusive trip. Told on the second day that we needed to pay for the park fees in cash extra. Queried this with Vinny - he agreed, but we couldn't, as they hadn't told us in advance, so transferred. Later, upon showing evidence to Vinny of the 'All-inclusive' aspect of the tour, Cover Kenya agreed to return the money. Which they couldn't do via transfer (even though we could do it to them?). This was an unnecessary stress.
- Upon arrival in Nairobi at the end of the tour, we drove to Cover Kenya's HQ, where we met Mike who proceeded to give us the cash, MINUS $100US. Luckily my husband counted it in front of him, when he miraculously found the lost $100 in his pocket.
- Vinny stated that they kept our tour private, however we know that they were trying to find another person/s for the tour, but couldn't.
- We did not feel comfortable giving feedback during the trip about the driver/tourguide, as they were the person solely responsible for us - if they became unhappy with us, we could suffer.
IE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Mark was so friendly, accommodating and knowledgable
Our 4 day safari was brilliant. Mark brought us to Lake Manyara, The Serengeti and Nrongoro Crater. We saw so many different animals (including rhinos)! Mark had so much knowledge about the areas, culture and animals. Our highlight was the hot air balloon, it was spectacular!! If you are considering booking this, you definitely should!
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great communication, excellent organisation and friendly staff
I shopped around for a comprehensive safari package at a good price and African Hub were front runners from the start. Their communication was excellent and they were very flexible to our requests. Advice was given in the run up to our Safari to ensure we were going to get the most out of it. On the first day of our 5 day camping Safari we were collected from our Airbnb by our guide, Daniel, who turned out to be an excellent companion for the five days - very friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating. We also met our chef, Lina, who followed us on our Safari. She consistently cooked us taste, nutritious meals despite us being a very awkward party consisting on two meat eaters, a pescatarian and a vegan!
The safaris themselves were everything we’d hoped for and having signed up for a camping safari we were very surprised and grateful for two of the nights to be spent in a luxurious en-suite rooms.
All in all we couldn’t fault our trip and would definitely use African Hub again.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wow! What an adventure
From start to finish, the guides were amazing and the scenes were unforgettable. Freddy and Alphonse were a joy to spend time with and incredibly knowledgeable. Two of the lodges were also very memorable- Burundi Tented Lodge and Ngorongoro Farm House.
The company was great, providing suggestions and working with us to make the trip exactly what we wanted it to be. Would absolutely recommend!