Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by ianh3000
Only had an afternoon here - so difficult to review as didn't travel that far within the park.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Addo Elephant National Park by Michael Potts
Lots of elephants and unusual dung beatles
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by Michael Potts
Lots of invasive plants makes view difficult
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Wildlife right next to Nairobi
This was my second trip to Kenya and I really wanted to see NNP. When we first entered the park we saw our first white rhinos of the trip and some giraffes with the city of Nairobi in the background. That was pretty surreal. We did not see a ton of wildlife but when we did see the animals, it was great. We saw lions, eland, zebras, gazelle, hartebeest, ostrich, quite a few birds and other wildlife and even a green mamba snake. It was really cool to see all the whistling acacia trees. All in all it was a nice park right outside the city so very convenient. The weather was mostly cool and overcast. I'm glad I made it to NNP.
DE
Good and bad experiences during the trip but I will never forget it for sure
AfroLeisureTours made it possible for us to book our 3-days-safari-trip very spontaneously. That was pretty awesome. My boy-friend and me had a full safari van for ourselves with plenty of room.
The agency told us that we would arrive in our first camp in the late afternoon and start with our first game-drive afterwards. But our driver got lost or the calculation was wrong, am not pretty sure what was the problem but we arrived there at 11 p.m. when it was totally dark outside. So we missed our first game-drive and were pretty disappointed.
Thats why they upgraded us to a very nice and fancy Spa Resort to say sorry, which was pretty awesome again. But then the schedule didn't work out again because we had a driver change between the second and third (the last) day and the new driver arrived 1 1/2 hours too late in the morning for the game-drive. The game drive was very nice but because of lack of lunch packages we had to shorten our game-drive (everyone was too hungry to continue) but at least they paid a dinner in a small restaurant afterwards. All in all a lot went wrong but at least they tried to softened with extras like the resort on the second day.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Camdeboo National Park by Coco
The trecking in Camdeboo was amazing because of the breathtaking landscapes but it's not a safari destination, it's more of a scenery and cliff destination.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Queen Elizabeth National Park by eleeg78
I visited Queen Elizabeth only briefly and likely didn't get the full experience. Unfortunately, we didn't have much luck seeing wildlife. We did, however have a nice camping and dining experience.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Friendly on the time staff
Communications: This was great before our arrival. After that, we had no communications, we had to find out ourselves what time we would be picked up for transport to the airport on departure.
Safari could not give us the best prices for activities, we had to spend a lot of time looking for good prices.
GH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Not bad, but it doesn't feel like it is the trip of the life time
We had an OK time with our tour guide Anwar. He was good when we first meet him. He was explaining things while driving on the first day. From the 2nd day onward, our guide was more interested in looking at his phone . Instead of guiding, he would most just answer our questions.
The Olea Lodge and Kati Kati camps are the good choice for our 4 nights stay. We were delighted to see the Olea Lodge is actually a lot better than the photos. Kati kati camp was an interesting experience. They have a good crew to make sure the food is hot and good. Our guide changed one of the full day game drive to go back to camp for 3 hours lunch and then tried to drive fast to catch up in the afternoon. We were not impressed as we have a five year old girl in the car and would prefer steady driving.
We were there in the low season, so there are some animals here and there but didn't have the "Wow" factor.
We are not happy that we almost missed our flight on the last day as the guide was late for about 40 to 50 minutes to pick us up from the hotel. Maybe our experience would be better if our guide was more Enthusiastic and not focused so much on his phones.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good plan, average delivery
Communication was generally quite good as we arranged everything by email and had quick and informative responses to our questions.
The overall safari route is a little different to the typical routes as it includes a few additional parks, which we found to be enjoyable but not essential. The route we thought could have been planned a little better as we had several days where we "doubled-up" on driving instead of viewing each game park in a more logical order.
We had several tour guides over our 12 day safari which ranged in quality from excellent to poor.
The only major issue we had with the whole safari was with accommodation whereby they showed us an example of the accommodation "or similar" for each night and found that when they changed to a "similar" place it was significantly worse than the example we had been showed. We had one night very early on in the trip where instead of staying in a nice guest house we were put in what I can only describe as a half-star motel inside a loud and bright garage. We had paid to upgrade from the basic accommodations to "mid-range" options based on what we saw on Tripadvisor which made this point very upsetting.
Overall we saw a lot of animals and went to a lot of locations which we were very happy with so my only word of advice would be to strongly critique the specific details of the accommodation.