FI
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent service!
Everything from the initial contact with Estleon went really smoothly. Esther was great on accommodating all the requests I had in regards of the trip. The driver Bernard did an outstanding job during the trip. He knew all the best places where to see the animals and also was really knowledgeable of all the species of animals in the parks. I can highly recommend Bernard as a driver!
All in all a 5 star experience from the initial contact to execution. Thank you Estleon team!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Mr Martin is an excellent tour operator,he was always in time and he made sure we were comfortable.
We had a wonderful time and experience. I highly recommend extra miles unique adventures. They have efficient transportation and booking of the resort.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best experience
Best experience ever, Tuma a guide who went out of his way to find us the Big Five.
We had come for our honeymoon and Hans organized and offered us extraordinary lodges.
I recommend this agency with eyes closed again thanks to them!
If I had to do it again, I would do it again without hesitation.
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US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Planned an 8 day safari that far exceeded our expectations!
Unforgettable trip! Far exceeded my expectations! So glad I chose Africa Safari Classics to plan our trip. My mom has had a safari on her bucklist forever and we finally decided to go despite the current uncertainties with the pandemic. Glad we did. Went the last part of December 2021. My 72 year old mom, my college age son and 2 daughters in high school. Great trip for everyone in our eclectic group.
Went into the trip thinking we would see a lot of animals but not everything. I was hoping for a cheetah or a leopard. We saw EVERYTHING! Saw all the big 5, cheetahs, hippos, etc! Not only that we saw it all very close. Saw lionesses with their cubs eating a zebra, a leopard with its kill in a tree, and so much more! I was worried that my camera would not be powerful enought to get the photos I wanted. So it was so awesome to see everything so close! The pictures my kids got on their phones were amazing because our drivers got us right up to the animals.
Highlights included:
Seeing all the animals so close!
Night game drive.
Hot air balloon ride during sunrise over the Mara.
Also recommend going to different parks/conservancies. Loved Amboseli, Mara, and Eagle View (Naboisho Conservancy). Glad we didn't spend the whole time at only one national park.
Our guides were wonderful! Tony was our guide for the majority of the trip. He has been a guide for 15+ years and was great! My mom said she appreciated his patience answering all her questions and we never felt rushed.
Maurice did a great job planning it all out for us. I just emailed him with my list of what we wanted to see and do and I let him plan it since he knew what would be best for that time of year.
Can't say enough about how much I would recommend going with Africa Safari Classics.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Through our Covid driven reschedules-Compass Odyssey became like family en route to a perfect safari
We started planning this trip with Compass Odyssey in December 2019. After four Covid-driven reschedules and some itinerary tweaks, we finally were able to visit South Africa, Zambia and Botswana with (most) of our original itinerary in tact!
We usually plan our entire travel adventures 100% on our own, so we were hesitant to rely on someone else to help us craft this experience. However, Compass Odyssey closely listened to our input and helped tailor the experience to our interests and budget.
Not only did Compass Odyssey help us schedule and reschedule the trip multiple times, they put together an unforgettable itinerary with an outstanding mix of safari experiences (South Africa / Botswana) and adventure travel (Zambia). They were also with us every step of the way, from the unexpected cancelled flights to the border closings, ensuring that we were taken care of from start to finish. Traveling during a pandemic is always challenging, but Compass Odyssey made it as seamless as possible, while ensuring we got to truly experience Southern Africa along the way. By the end of the trip, with the great communication and planning, we felt like they were essentially family!
BE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing! An exhausting but fabulous experience!
I had not imagined that Kenya was so wonderful. So much life and splendor!
We were lucky to be guided by Peter, an amazing guide. Thanks to him, we felt safe with our children throughout the trip.
During the safaris in the parks, he led us to meet the big five and made us discover extraordinary scenes. He has the eye of a lynx and is sure to spot big cats and birds of prey and he knows all about flora and fauna. He had the patience to answer all our questions, both on the behavior of wild animals and on local customs.
He was also very attentive to our preferences so that we were always well placed to obtain extraordinary points of view and photos, even paying attention to the orientation of the light so that our photos were perfect. Really very considerate. The children and I loved discovering the baby animals and he quickly noticed it and did everything to show them to us... Really, this trip was great! It's physically demanding but we will keep an unforgettable memory.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Cheap, best service and flexibility!
Our experience with Jocky tours was great !
From the start, Minneh was available for our questions, she really adapted the trip to our requests and did as much price simulations as we needed. She was super flexible even when we had to move the trip to other dates due to a family issue. Thank you so much Minneh for your professionalism and flexibility.
Jocky tours is the most competitive organisation we found for safari tours and we appreciated that everything was included in the price we were given (especially park fees).
Our driver James had a lot of knowledge about animals. He made sure he achieved the goals we had fixed together and in a day, we saw lions, crocodiles, hippos, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffalos, antilopes, zebras etc. The landscapes he brought us to were amazing. That way, we had a day of rest so the kids could enjoy the swimming pool at the hotel.
James was friendly and a very careful driver!
HU
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Reliable, caring and truly amazing
We were going on a custom 5 day Safari to kick-off our honeymoon. From the very beginning and even after we were very well taken care off! The service Lilian and her team provided was extraordinary.
We started off with a hike on the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro before hitting the national parks for the Safari. Our guide was Ahmed - who impressed with thorough knowledge on flora and fauna, as well as on a personal level as a great, fun and positive person. We felt like in a real-life David Attenborough movie ... and of course we saw the Big 5
We stayed almost every night at another hotel - the selection of the hotels was excellent. All of them very of high quality and unique in their architecture, location and view.
One thing that should be definitely mentioned besides the great Safari experience, is Lilian's cooking skills - besides all the wild animals and beautiful landscape, her prepared lunch boxes were definitely a highlight - is mentioned as first to our friends along the Big 5 :) And while addressing the lunch, I want to also positively mention that our lunch boxes were - differently to many other providers we saw along the road who used single use packing - reusable aluminium bowls which were refilled every day.
We would definitely decide for Zohar again.
A huge thank you to Lilian and her great team for providing us with a truly incredible experience!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent tour guide
They have an amazing experience in what they do a great tour guide I could recommend to you and your family
DE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Discovering the unexpected, a 5 days private safari
It was the first time, that we decided to do a Safari and after some online reviews we finished contacting among a few additional companies, fortunately, Gosheni Safari.
We wanted to do a 5 days safari with lodge acommodation covering Tarangire, Serengeti, Crater Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara.
From the beginning the communication with Gosheni was incredible good, Pendo did a great job. In difference to other companies we contacted, Pendo was providing us options matching exactly our request and with different proposals, with a real clear explanation of the planning and acommodations included. She was always answering our questions in a few hours, through email or though whatsap and at the end we decided us for a private tour, with middle range lodge acommodation.
Unfortunatelly due COVID we had to delay our partially paid safari 2 days before the start, but again there was not problem at all! At the end, we get the change to fly two weeks later than originally planned and Pendo was there to reorganize everything ASAP.
At the start of the safari we were picked up in our hotel by our fantastic guide and driver Ombeni. He was amazing, fluent english, always happy, making jokes and generate a really comfortable athmosphere, always there to help us and make us enjoy the experience. As he would say, really "The man of the people". He was our driver and guide, but during the safari he converted also in our friend.
We started with a small briefing on the Gosheni Office in Arusha. There we would able to see, that Gosheni was not "Other more" Arusha Safary company , it was a high professional company.
During this briefing, we were so lucky that we got an upgrade for our first night because our booked one was closed due corona. The replacement we got was a 5 star hotel on lake manyara with pool, were you were surrounded by Zebras, Jiraffa and more animals that you could watch from your room(or from the pool!).
The car was great, big, comfortable with drinks always available and was kept always extremely clean by Ombeni. We got everyday a real hot meal for lunch with wine, and not only the typical sandwich Lunchbox. The other guides and clients were jealous as they saw how nice was handled everything by Ombeni.
During the safari we were able to see not only the Big Five, but much more than expected! Gosheni is an amazing company, but with Ombeni it is incredible, he makes a difference.