50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Second rate at best, owner has no integrity!
Where do I start, the food in the camps was good but that's about it! A party of 6 doing a 12 night trip all paid for before we arrived. 3rd day we are at Speke Bay Lodge for one night, our safari landrovers turn up at 1300 hours to collect us, they are immediately blocked in by a tractor and trailer, the management of the lodge inform us that East African Safari and Touring company (also known as EastCo) had not paid for our stay and would not let us go until they did, our luggage was locked in reception. The lodge management then phone EastCO and ask me to speak to the owner Mr Simon King, this I agreed to as I was not happy, after a long chat Mr King asked me to pay off his debt with my credit card, I suggested he use his own credit card, as we had paid for everything up front, he hung the phone up!! About an hour later Mr King phoned and asked to speak to a different member of our party and ask them to pay his debt, again told no, again he hung up. After we had been held hostage for 4 hours, I'm afraid to say that with no help from our tour company, I threatened to kick in the reception door and I would move the tractor (I'm a farmers son) At this point the lodge management get us go, this would turn out to be the first of 3 safari drives we would miss out on due to EastCo's lack of integrity. We drove for 5 hours, mostly in the dark, to arrive at our next lodge at 2100 hours. So lets talk about our 2 Landrover defender safari jeeps, both 15 years old, most of the seals round the doors were gone, so we were covered in dust most of the time, One only had 4 gears out of 5, the other sometimes 3 or 4 gears ( this would cost us another game drive later as the gear box would fall out) this jeep also had 6 warning lights on from day it picked us up! On another day one of the pop up roofs would not stay up, so we were only able to look out of the side windows, most of which were stuck shut! On 2 days we drove for 11 hours between camps, only to be told on arriving at EastCo'c tented camp there was only enough water for 4 people to shower, on the second day at the tented camp 5 French guest arrived to be told there was no water for showers! Ok, I think you are getting the idea of how our trip went, missed game drives, charging a lodge without telling us, the 2 drivers did the best they could with the resource they were given, each time we entered a Game park the drivers had to fill in forms and pay cash which took about 30 minutes, while all the other safari companies stopped for 30 seconds, showed there passes and drove on.
Do not use this company.
Well organised trip, accompanied by qualified and very pleasant staff.
We booked a private safari (NP Nakuru/Naivasha/Hell's gate) trip of two daya, fully to our satifaction:
1. Nice programme;
2. Very pleasant staff (driver and cook);
3. Nice meals and basic but good accomodation;
4. Active driver, eager to get the most out of the trip for us;
5. Booking: accurate communication, except for not dsending the final programnmae as agreed upon...
AT
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Sky Safari
I have the following points to share:
- The most luxurious holiday I have ever been on.
- From the pilot to the game drivers and guide everything was very professional.
- Beautiful lodges, delicious food and an excellent wine selection
- Worth every penny............
Recommending Hosking -Safari guide with Africa Remote Safaris
Hello,
We just returned from a safari in Kenya where we visited Amboseli, Tsavo West and Tsavo East . Haron was our guide. An amazing guide indeed who spoke fluent French and English.
The Safari organisation exceeded our expectations. A very big thank you to Amy for responding to all our emails and arranging a memorable safari. We spent magical moments in the reserves, especially in Amboseli and Tsavo West. The nights in the Kibo tented camp in Amboseli was a unique experience. We also had a great time relaxing in Ngulia Safari Tsavo West camp, watching the animals from the terrace of our room!
Regarding reserves, it is at Amboseli that we saw most of the animals.
Tsavo West park is a great place to enjoy nature with vast rolling hills and Leopards.
However, we did not see a lot of animals at Tsavo East Park.
In summary, we highly recommend Africa Remote Safaris and thank you to Amy for the organization, and our expert guide Haron.
Larry
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
8 nights in Kruger
This company was recommended to us by people who had been on over a dozen safaris. They said this was the best they had been on, so our expectations were high. Our expectations were in fact exceeded! Ryan and Thale are wonderful hosts, guides and now friends. It is an overused expression, but I can honestly say this was a holiday of a lifetime. Recommended.
DE
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
very competent and reliable! We enjoyed our competent guide Kenneth Muhindi!
In preparing the safari Gatatu proved to be very flexible in dealing with our wishes. Everything worked very well as promised. The guide was very competent and engaged to assure, that we could really find embarrassing observations of animals in the park. Accomodation was perfect! We had a good time! Thank you!
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing trip
Very nice safari, our guide, Simon, was very knowledgeable and knew where to find the animals.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
We did 8 days safari with my father and it was really great. Dennis our guide and sweetbert our cherf, were really nice with us and they were reqlly attentive with my father. We saw many animals and Dennis knows a lot and gave us many information.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
FABULOUS EXPERIENCE
I chose CKC Tours because they promptly answered my email requesting information about doing a group Safari. I had a group from the United States whose goal was to experience the famous African Wild life and Beach Safari as well as the Cultural experience and other excursions. As soon as we landed in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the director of CKC Mr. John Muhoho was there waiting for us. He gave us a warm reception and took us to the Hotel . The following morning he came and gave us a brief on the various excursions for Nairobi and the surrounding areas which were to be done for the week. Mr. Muhoho came on the day of the Safari to provide us with another briefing. The choice of hotels was out of this world, the drivers especially king George are very knowledgeable and drive well. The wildlife experience was awesome. The price was reasonable. I have used CKC for so many years and would recommend it to anyone looking into doing a Safari and other excursions in East Africa
BE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing!!!
The camp side experience was wonderful! Thank you Northern Adventure for the amazing safari!