CN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great service ,nice arrangement,excellent sights
Everything is great,enjoy our stay in Kenya,especially our guide David,amazing,definitely recommend hom and inclusive holiday company
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Visit to Gombe Stream National Park
We spent three days and two nights at Gombe Stream National Park. It was a thrilling visit, as we got to see the Central Community of chimpanzees and hiked many trails in the park. The visit was during the dry season, so we had to hunt for the chimpanzees but viewing them was excellent with the reduced vegetation. We stayed in the lodge built for Goodall's son. It was very comfortable and close to everything. The food was wonderful, fish right from the lake. Our guide was very knowledgeable and capable. I would like to visit again. I would plan to stay at least two days to ensure seeing chimpanzees.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Custom tour that fulfilled expectation and beyond!
Professional, personal and extremely well curated according to budget. We came to Hone to Africa looking for a mid-range expense private tour of Uganda and Tanzania for 9-days. Elias put together an itinerary that enabled us to see everything we wanted and more, in an instant, with pricing that was under budget and accomodation options that were really nice and quite unique. It almost seemed too good to be true. But Home to Africa delivered even more once the safari began. Karim was our guide, an ex-history teacher and animal enthusiast, we got to know uganda better than an encyclopaedia with him. He was amazing, informative, very well organised, kept us informed of our movements and simply made the trip a joy. Elias kept in constant contact to ensure we were travelling well too. I was expecting good for the budget we had booked on, but we got AAA excellent. Highly recommended.
CA
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Bucket list trip of a lifetime.
This was our first trip to Africa, to mark our 50th anniversary. We had spent a lot of time researching safaris online, ending up quite confused about where and when to go. We arranged a meeting with Chris after finding the Safari Partners online; he took the time to find out what we wanted to see and a few days later sent us a proposal covering the animals we wanted to see at the time the flowers would be out in South Africa.
Chris booked us into 3 luxury tented camps in Kenya and 1 in Botswana. All were small camps with excellent facilities, friendly and efficient staff and all featured excellent meals and hospitality. Our guides were all excellent and we had a fantastic experience. We flew between camps, the connections Chris had set up all worked seamlessly.
We had a 2 day break in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. We had to fly into Livingston, Zambia due to airline schedules, but again Chris had helped us with the visas needed and we were met and transported through the border and to our lodge on the Zimbabwe side.
We ended our Africa adventure with 10 days in South Africa, at Cape Town and driving the Garden Route. Once again we were met at the airport and transported as promised and enjoyed the friendly, efficient small hotel Chris had booked, as well as the tours that had been arranged. The drive along the Garden Route was set up with short, leisurely drives. We had a good experience at all the places we stayed. We were impressed that the car from Europcar was exactly as described.
Chris provided us with a great deal of background information about packing, especially for the small planes we were taking, about normal tipping expectations, and about what we could expect at our various destinations.
We were totally pleased with the trip Chris set up for us.
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best Trip Ever
We had never been to Africa before, yet alone on safari. After 15 incredible days , we can comfortably say this was our best adventure trip ever!! Sarah was our adventurist from Kerr-Downey- she listened to our requests, suggested some itineraries and after her input we felt very comfortable with an itinerary. And wow, did it ever exceed our expectations!!
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Kruger National Park by Colleen
Saw a lot of wildlife-which is why I wanted to visit!
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Chobe National Park by Barbara Bergfield
My accommodations were fabulous. It was a five-star facility.
CN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A wonderful experience
The safari was amazing and our guide Martin was the best! He made sure that we saw the Big 5 and much more. Plus he was knowledgeable and patiently answered all our questions about the animals and even gave us some insight into the local culture of the native inhabitants. Kenya is a trip of a lifetime and the Masai Mara is a must see!
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wild Planet Safari was an excellent experience!!
We had a beautiful experience with Wild Planet Safaris. Booking the tour was easy-Ryan was very open and easy to communicate with. For our guides we had Anton and Lungi. Anton was very knowledgeable about the animals and knew where to go in the park. Lungi was an excellent cook and animal spotter-he spotted a leopard across the way (I would have never caught it on my own) which made my day-probably the most beautiful animal I have ever seen in the wild! My dad made it a game to try and spot an animal before Lungi did-needless to say, Lungi always won haha. We are also very very lucky to have seen the wild African dogs! We got to see them interact with a huge family of baboons, it was absolutely wild, a once in a life time opportunity! Both of the guides made our trip very enjoyable-would definitely recommend!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing tour and fantastic service from start to finish
My girlfriend and I recently did a 7 day camping safari in the Delta which we organised through Martin at Kingfisher Safaris. When booking some months ago, we found Martin online and were immediately impressed by his responsiveness and helpful and accommodating service in planning our trip. Once we booked our safari, Martin also assisted us in booking our own self drive camping trip in Namibia beforehand, providing some great tips and knowledge for our planning, but also making arrangements for us on the ground which meant we had the piece of mind and backup of his 'on the ground' support network. This was invaluable in making our trip efficient, practical and safe.
Our Delta safari was run by guides Charles (for 3 days) and then Pilot for the remainder. Both of them are fantastic, super knowledgeable and experienced (which you can tell by the way they are respected by other guides in the park) and are perfectionists in making the safari experience as perfect as possible. Right up to the day we started our safari, Martin was available by email to answer any question. The assistants on tour are equally helpful and friendly. We had an amazing and unforgettable experience through Kingfisher and highly recommend it. We look forward to one day hopefully being able to do it again.