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4.7970 / 5 4.8 /5
4.8763 / 5 4.8112 / 5 4.6580 / 5 4.4959 / 5

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4 star 244 / 10 244
3 star 46 / 10 46
2 star 8 / 10 8
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Male avatar icon Raymond Norstrom Canada flag CA       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Feb 22, 2020

Email Raymond Norstrom  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Our safari was even more than we expected.

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5
Our 6 day safari in January was with Kiliholidays. We were picked up at the airport with no problems by our guide Thomas. We were transferred to our pre safari hotel in Arusha, the Nego Bugg Hotel. Nego Bugg is a wonderful hotel with very nice rooms. However, the staff there are not very good about making you comfortable and welcome. We had no hot water and after trying to get help several times, someone finally came by to turn on the hot water switch which was located outside our room. Not one staff member mentioned this to us. As the evening moved along, we decided to have dinner at the restaurant but we had no idea where it was located because nobody showed us. After asking for help, we were shown to the restaurant in another building. Dinner was a mess, we ordered several times and our waitress came back to tell us it was not available. This happened three times. Finally we just told her to tell us what was available. She left to find out. When she returned, we were able to order with
Read more success. With no window screens, a plague of small flies forced us back to our room where we said we would take room service. TWO hours later, after many “only 5 more minutes “, food arrived cold and not looking like the restaurant pictures at all and no drinks that were ordered. It was hot in the room and air conditioning was needed and thankfully our room had a unit. After 45 minutes of fiddling with the remote, several calls to the front desk, new batteries in the remote, still no air conditioning. Another round of calls for help and finally a maintenance man came to look at our unit. He quickly turned on the wall switch near the bathroom and, tadaaaa, we had cooler air. Could nobody have shown us this earlier? We had many frustrations that day/night but all could have been resolved if we had been informed of the workings of our room in the beginning. Arrrrgh. The safari starts tomorrow and there is no way it could get worse . As a matter of fact, it was fantastic. Our first day was the Tarangire National Park. Next two days were in The Serengeti and our final drive was in the Ngorongoro Crater. Witnessing all the animals in these places was awe inspiring and an experience we will never forget. Thomas did his best to get us great views and many times closer to the animals than we ever expected. We could count the flies on the lioness ‘s nose we were so close. The safari lodge and tented camp arranged by Kiliholidays were both excellent and very accommodating. The tented camp was an exciting African experience and highly recommended. The food was ample and very tasty. Overall, despite our start, our adventure on this safari was unique and memorable. We would recommend you make this adventure a reality and we do not hesitate to recommend Kiliholidays. Thanks also to Safaribookings for their help.
Female avatar icon Enrica Berti Italy flag IT       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Feb 18, 2020

Email Enrica Berti  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

nice despite our guide

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 0 / 5


The trip was beautiful because nature is wonderful and people are very kind. Our tour was badly organized and our guide was bad. He knew nothing of his country. We got stuck in a river with the car, we got wet and our suitcases ended up in the water and we lost a camera. Nobody apologized. The guide always laughed.
At the end of the tour he did not make us the last excursions, already paid, because he had spent all our money.

I think we found the only incompetent and rude guide in all of Tanzania.

Female avatar icon Wiesendanger Pamina Switzerland flag CH       Visited: December 2019 Reviewed: Feb 13, 2020

Email Wiesendanger Pamina  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

it was a once in a liftime experience absolutely supererb

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 4 / 5

omar, our guide was absolutely high qualificated. we have seen the big five.
Although we booked the 5 days trip, the schedule was too packed. We did Ngoro Ngoro and Serengeti in one day.
That was the only negative point on a nice journey. however this safari and the agency is highly recommended.

Avatar icon Anzhelika Kirillova Russia flag RU       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Feb 10, 2020

Email Anzhelika Kirillova

Beautiful, but overpriced.

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5

I am of two minds regarding our safari trip. Beautiful nature, animals, but people’s attitude to tourists is awful. There wasn’t a day native people didn’t try to cheat on us and try to extort money. Even our tour guide. We bought the tour with Travel partner, can’t recommend it. The accommodation was perfect, but our tour guide was only driver, I don’t remember anything interesting he told us about wild life. Only obvious things like: look, it’s a giraffe, it’s very tall.

Male avatar icon Mark Soler Malta flag MT       Visited: December 2019 Reviewed: Feb 8, 2020

Email Mark Soler  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Awesome scenery in lovely country.

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 4 / 5

We were lucky to see the Big 5 over our short safari. Our guide was excellent in identifying the best routes around the Serengeti.
Thank you for a once in a lifetime experience for my family.

Male avatar icon Enslin Davel South Africa flag ZA       Visited: February 2020 Reviewed: Feb 6, 2020

Email Enslin Davel  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Tanzania in the Rain

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 3 / 5 5 / 5 2 / 5

Make sure about the weather when you book a trip to Tanzania

We were wet every day on Kilimanjaro!
We were wet camping in Serengeti and Ngorongoro!
The wet roads really spoiled some of the game viewing and some roads were to wet to drive on

Female avatar icon Diane France flag FR       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Feb 5, 2020

Email Diane  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Amazing when you don't get ripped off!

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 3 / 5 5 / 5 4 / 5

We booked a Safari tour with Crater Explorer on Safari Booking.
Exchanges where nice but only by WhatsApp, we didn't receive any receipt, anything confirming us the booking, but anyway, we thought it was quite normal in Tanzania.
Arrived in Arusha, the guy from Crater Explorer (Emanuel), ask us to pay the globally by cash a day before the safari without giving us any receipt (what is suspect).
Hopefully we were with a local Tanzanian at this time, who thought it was a scam.
And actually he was right! During the day the safari was very nice, we saw many animals, parks are extremely beautiful BUT for the accommodation it was the opposite of what we paid for. We were supposed to sleep in tents IN the park and actually we slept in a dirty lodge outside of the park, in a city center very noisy! We were very very disappointed, and we didn't get any refund, anything.
Just as advise, please verify safari agencies that you promote on your website, and make sure they do what they sell!

Female avatar icon Farzin Mou Canada flag CA       Visited: December 2019 Reviewed: Feb 3, 2020

Email Farzin Mou  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Breathtaking

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5

The scenery is unbeatable and the experience is something I would recommend to everyone in a heartbeat. The company was good considering it was a budget travel company. The quality of some of the meals could have been a little better. But overall, the company's hospitality was great - they gave us a bottle of red wine to welcome us which was a nice touch! I would recommend these guys for all budget travelers. We actually ended up going to all the places and lodging exactly where all the more expensive groups were. Richard and his team are professionals and will take care of you to the best of their ability.

Female avatar icon Sophie Portugal flag PT       Visited: January 2019 Reviewed: Jan 27, 2020

Email Sophie  |  under20 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

A real adventure!

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 2 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5

It was a good adventure! The wildlife, the parks were amazing! The only thing we did not enjoy was our guide. Not very nice, not available to show us around the park, we were always the last to leave the the camp and the first to return. The last day we waited 2hours for him to get inside the park, he was sitting aroud and talking to some other drivers. Our cook was great, and al the meals were perfect!

Female avatar icon Mette Denmark flag DK       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Jan 23, 2020

Email Mette  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Over all amazing experience

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 3 / 5 5 / 5 3 / 5

We went on a 4D/3N safari trip to Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Both Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro were great experiences with lots of animals and beautiful nature! Serengeti on the other hand was a bit disappointing in our opinion. Not many animals and the roads were not good. Beautiful nature though.
We chose tented camps which was a different but great experience as well. Close to animals.