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65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Our long tour was perfect!
Our trip through Africa was complicated by the Covid epidemic and had to be delayed by 14 months. Hallmark Travel arranged for all of our test (7 of them) to be taken and results provided. Our trip was amazing and our guides were equal to the task, the guides were at each port of entry on time with a name plate. Rwanda was the exception due to the country's requirement for a 24 hour isolation upon arrival. Our amazing trip was very long and included: Egypt, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Victoria Falls. Hotels were 5 star or historically significant (we got to stay in same room that the Gorilla lady used in Rwanda which was amazing.) In Egypt we saw old Cairo, sailed the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, got close the Pyramids and museums. In Rwanda we visited a large group of gorillas. In Tanzania we did an amazing river hike, saw the flamingos, toured the amazing crater, and had long journey through the Serengeti. In Nigeria we toured the Masai Mari and another Nat Park in Nairobi. Our final stop was the amazing Victoria Falls. All in all every part of our trip was a full 10 out of 10. Thank you Lewis and Hallmark travel!!!!
CN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
They are simply the best
Best communication skill, excellent service provided to us by Solomon, good car condition, luxury hotels, smooth operation and itinerary. All these we experieced from our safari. No complain or unhappy, evertyhing is happy and happy.
CN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We will visit africa again when covid is over!!
Beautiful country, a lot of wild animals, fresh air, dusty road, bumpy, friendly local people, unique culture are all our expectations. They organzied a trip included all these and exceeded our hope. The safari went excellent, everything was smooth, clear, joy, and fun! We loved the bumpy road to Mssai Mara, and it was nice african massage. We hope we will come back again for another safari!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
BuyMore Adventures was amazing in every respect. We highly recommend them!
We recently returned from the most fantastic, amazing trip to Kenya and cannot recommend BuyMore Adventures highly enough. We would absolutely use their services again.
We are a family of 3, with a 12-year-old boy. We were in Kenya for 18 nights in October and November 2021. We visited 5 parks: Amboseli, two in Samburu, Ol’Pejeta, and Masai Mara. We spent the last several days of the trip on the beach on the Indian Ocean south of Diani.
We are used to independent travel, without a guide or tour operator. But given what we read about seeing animals in the Kenyan parks, we decided we needed a safari company. We sent out at least 25 emails to different safari operators asking about itineraries and costs for our dates. In general, we received canned and generic responses, and high price quotes. But one reply stood out -- from Nadzua, the owner of BuyMore Adventures. Nadzua gave us a completely customized itinerary and a significantly better price.
Over months of trip planning Nadzua patiently answered all our questions and made the dozens of changes to our safari that we requested. In many cases, she told us why she thought we should do things one way as opposed to another, and she was always right, as we saw during our trip. She did things like watching airfare sales for flights within Kenya, which enabled to fly between certain camps saving us many hours on the road! She ensured the availability of vegan and vegetarian food at each lodge for our family. We were very specific that we wanted a 4x4 Toyota Landcruiser with a pop-up top as opposed to a van, and she made sure we had that. She was flexible, friendly, highly responsive and organized. And infinitely patient with us. We cannot express how appreciative we are of Nadzua’s care in planning our safari.
When we landed in Nairobi, Nadzua met us, along with our driver Charles, and the 4x4 Landcruiser safari rig, which had lots of room for us. The Landcruiser was very comfortable and spacious. Charles, our driver for the safari, was simply outstanding, in every respect. He has 18 years of experience, has worked with National Geographic film crews and with conservation programs. He knew the parks inside out and backward. He spoke perfect English (plus 3 or 4 other languages), was easy to understand and knew amazing facts about every tree, bird and animal we saw. He cultivated friendships with other drivers and coordinated with them by radio to find the animals. So we saw EVERYTHING! He kept saying we were “lucky”, but I think we owe it to his deep knowledge and incredible tracking and spotting skills.
Charles was so very kind to our 12-year-old boy and kept him involved in spotting, tracking and learning about the animals. He taught us much about Kenya, his tribe, the customs, and his languages. We spent many hours and many days together and we will never forget his smile, his knowledge, his friendliness, and love of Kenya! He appreciated teaching and guiding us, but he also appreciated silence and let us take in the wonder of Africa and the animals. He arranged for us to have amazing experiences every single day. He frequently would extend our game drives so that we were able to spend extra time in the parks. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to have had Charles as a safari guide.
Charles and Nadzua stayed in contact throughout our trip and were always doing little things to make our trip better. For example, arranging to have box lunches when our plane landed so we could go directly into the park instead of to the lodge first. And, one night Nadzua arranged to upgrade us to a very high end lodge in a beautiful private conservancy where there were fewer people. There were many examples like that throughout our trip.
BuyMore Adventures was absolutely excellent, simply top-notch. Nadzua and Charles gave us the very best combination of personal service, a custom itinerary, all at a very fair price. At the end of the trip, when we flew home, we all felt as if BuyMore had given us the trip of a lifetime. You can reach Nadzua with this email: [email protected] and you can reach Charles via Whatsapp - +254 722 781182.
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The best service, product, pricing and service was 5 star! Best trip ever!!!
this has been the best trip, vacation, adventure ever and i would do it over and over again. best service, kind people, great good, very safe. great accommodations. i would do it over and over again.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Service and an amazing Itinerary
We booked our 12 days safari with Giltedge and were amazed by the great service they offered.
Very shortly after we requested more information Monique our agent already contacted us. She was very knowledgeable and put together an amazing trip for us that we will always remember. Everything was perfectly well organized and we didn't have to worry about anything. All we had to do was just to enjoy our vacation
We also want to highlight that Monique was extremely caring about our well being that went way above our expectation. Here an example. Due to the new Corona variant everything got quite chaotic and Monique even checked with our airline (that we haven't booked with Giltedge, if everything was still ok). And she checked on us even during the weekend.
We were extremely happy with Giltedge and can recommend them to everyone!
RO
Great experience with the best team
The tour was great from all points of view. We choice Cubs Expeditions because they have 5 stars in the reviews and they deserved them i can say after 3 days spent togheter.
From the guys who speak with us, Humphrey, Mr T. to the guide and the cook. The guide drive us to the best places in Serengheti and Ngorongoro where we seen a lot of animals in various situations and always tell us the story of that animal or what happens there. The food was great, fresh and tasty, i think was the best food that we eat in Tanzania in our stay. The communication great, they help us every time we ask for something.
Highly recommend!
Thank' s guys!!
RO
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unique experience
Humphrey arranged this trip for us impeccably. He was always ready to answer all of our questions before this trip.
We took a 3 day safari and everything was great: from airport transfer, to overnight accommodation and of course the whole safari trip: good food, good accommodation in tents, great guide and also we were lucky enough to see many wild animals. Only the rhino was short to check the whole big five list :)
Regards also to Mister T for meeting and briefing us at the hotel before we started.
The whole team, including the driver that picked us at the airport in Kilimanjaro, are great guys and we thank them for this trip.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent all around service!!!
Our safari was amazing from start to finish. From start I mean my very first message to Migration I got Amos and he was more than helpful. I am a big planner when I do trips so I had A LOT of questions. Communication was fast simple and easy!! Amos was very patient with me and went above in beyond in answering every question I had. My husband and I were staying in Dar es Salaam so we had to catch a flight to get to our safari. Amos gave me option of taking us via bus or flight to Arusha/Kilimanjaro. He recommended airlines to book for the flight as well as hotels to stay at if we could not get a flight to coordinate with our safari times. Deposit and final payments were all very easy and the price was what was listed no hidden fees. Pick up from the airport was very smooth. Our flight arrived early so I was nervous but our ride was early as well. There was someone waiting outside the airport with a sign with my name on it and the number of people in my party, so we knew exactly who to go with. Our driver GodLove was excellent. The drive to the first park took a few hours but we felt comfortable the whole ride. On the way to the park he gave us some info about the towns and different passing landmarks. He asked what we wanted to see/experience while in the parks and then told us to keep low expectation. This was the best advice ever and changed the whole out look of the experience!!!! While inside the park he let us use his binoculars and took pictures for us through his binoculars so we could get better pictures on our phone. He also did a good job of maneuvering the truck so we could get good angles and views of different animals. He had a great eye for spotting things that we couldn’t see!!!! The accommodations at Octagon Lodge were great. Everyone there was very friendly and the food was amazing!!! THIS TOUR WAS WORTH THE MONEY AND THEN SOME!!!!!!
A few suggestions I have to someone looking to book is be patient. I understand you may have certain animals you want to see but you have to realize that these are wild animals in a huge park. Your tour guide cannot control where the animals are and they cannot make them appear. Express what you want to see and I am sure if the opportunity is available your tour guide will do their best to try to help you experience it. TAKE A SNACK WITH YOU!!! You don’t want to be in the middle of the action or on a hunt for an animal and then have to leave because you are hungry. There was a time when I wanted to ask when was lunch during our game and I am glad I didn’t because right at that moment we found a lion and right after that a cheetah but had I asked for us to go to lunch we would have missed all of that. Bring a professional camera and good binoculars if you have some. Be respectful of the animals. You are entering their homes so don’t bother them. Just be respectful and watch and observe you don’t have to yell at them and bother them to try to get their attention. You wouldn’t want someone coming to your home and doing that to you so give them the same respect.
All and all this was a great experience and I cannot wait to come back with the rest of our family
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
They are simply the best operator
We really enjoyed our Amboseli Day tour. We enjoyed the early morning and late afternoon drives and especially the sunrise and sunset .At the Amboseli ,we Spotted herd of elephants, many giraffes, Zebras , Hyenas Buffalo ,Warthog and Antelopes. We were not lucky with Lions or Cheetahs..Safari Car was clean and comfortable and both Breakfast and lunch in the lodges was great. Our driver guide Moses was great and gave a lot of facts about animals ,culture and landscapes . An Overall awesome safari experience, all in a Day!