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Sara Silvestri
GB
Visited:
March 2026
Reviewed: Apr 9, 2026
Email Sara Silvestri | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Absolutely horrible experience for female solo travellers
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chimp trekking in Gombe National Park. The second operator was a complete joke, tents at the park are regularly attacked by baboons and despite the park authorities knowing they do not provide any security to ensure your personal belongings are safe. All they do is sleep all day while you pay $100 a day to be there in a semi-destroyed tent that they call "luxury". My operator refused to pay for any damage despite paying over $2000 for 4 days (FOUR DAYS!!!) of trekking. Once they get their money, you can forget about it, whatever happens they won't have your back.Not only I was heavily disappointed by the tour operators, especially the second one, but even the state of the National Parks was in shambles. Demanding foreigners to pay $100 a day entrance fee to a park in a third world destination where basic facilities are not provided. Imagine how many millions the government is making off tourists and then look at the state of the country and their citizens. If you wanna fuel this corrupted industry go ahead, if not, honestly I had a MUCH better experience in South Africa in 2023, where national parks fees were actually HONEST and PROPORTIONATE to the cost of living, camps were very well maintained and organised, and they even organised game drives through the national park, which means you didn't need to rely on private scammy tour operators who demand thousands of pounds to drive you around barely once a day in the middle of the heat when animals are sleeping, but you could actually do several drives a day for less than $20 per drive and you could book sunrise drives, sunset drives and night drives. All of that through the OFFICIAL national park website and for very little money.
I'm not saying it was the perfect experience, I think when travelling to Africa there is always quite a big margin for error and dangerous situations and south africa was definitely not a stroll across a meadow but at least I paid half the money and got way more out of it!
I also went to Zanzibar at the end of my trip and even there nothing good to say. I felt sick possibly from food poisoning and had to get some antibiotics and the hotel manager told me I'd have to pay $80 dollars for it cause it was coming from Stone Town. My insurance doctor had it delivered to me from a local pharmacy and guess how much it was? Less than $5. I did a snorkelling trip where the boat was sailed by a barely legal young boy, no safety whatsoever, 30+ boats all around the same spot trying to chase dolphins. The island is extremely dangerous to go around so you can only stay in the resort, the seaside is indeed blue but not crystal clear, you can barely see anything as it's always very murky. Beach boys harass you continuously, taxi prices are CRAZY due to the island being dangerous for tourists and tours were quite the disappointment as I explained above. So I'm sorry but heavily not recommended!
Jim
GB
Visited:
November 2025
Reviewed: Dec 29, 2025
Email Jim | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Flight was cancelled due to political unrest
Couldn't fly to Tanzania because of political unrest causing our flight to be cancelled. Agent in Tanzania could not refund our deposit, but said we can transfer is to the following year. Fingers crossed that political situation stabilises.
Stephen Henry
GB
Visited:
November 2025
Reviewed: Dec 21, 2025
Email Stephen Henry | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Cancelled holiday because of unrest and Government advice.
Unable to travel because of FCDO advice, dilute to political riots.
David Evans
AU
Visited:
August 2025
Reviewed: Sep 14, 2025
Email David Evans | 65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Absolute Rip Off
The camps were mostly filthy no hot water dirty matresses ,no toilet paper with staff cooking in kitchens in the camps at night making so much noise one couldn’t sleep.overpriced.
All viewings had so many tourist vans on disgusting roads that it was likely a peak hour expressway
Giovanni
IT
Visited:
July 2025
Reviewed: Aug 16, 2025
Email Giovanni | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Nice place, the worst services in whole Africa safari regions
Terrible experience with the Safari company MAKINI company, Tanzanians asking for a lots of money with very poor services, much better the safaries in South Africa or Kenia. Parks are managed by the Government and if you sleep in the Camps its own your risk, animals in between the tends, most of the time not water in the public toilettes...dirties etc. Food prepared by Cookers in a vey lack of hygene conditions, roads are terrible, but Tanzanian Gov, gets 45,00 Usd for each tourist going in the parks.
I don't know if you see the above mentioned comments cause I tend to think this site its manipulated
Giovanni Manzotto
IT
Visited:
July 2025
Reviewed: Aug 13, 2025
Email Giovanni Manzotto | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Beautiful contry lack of services, expensive, corrupted
Be prepared if you intend to go in Tanzania, in terms of services its very poor, and it has got the higher costs in between South Africa and Kenia safari whom are much more organized affordable, better food, better transportation.
Andrea ar
US
Visited:
October 2024
Reviewed: Nov 27, 2024
Email Andrea ar | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Could have been a better experience
Itinerary not well structured. Too many hours and days lost driving from place to place on roads that can only be described as horrible.
Brunild Çala
AL
Visited:
August 2022
Reviewed: Sep 5, 2022
Email Brunild Çala | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Beautiful place but needs a lot of work .
Is the most bad experience of my life !.
So we start from Zanzibar to Safari by boat and on fort way was good . We arrived there meet our guide and everything was good in Safari . When we be back by boat the beach was really bad and we say to Capitain of boat to be back because we cannot go with this weather in Zanzibar . And he said it’s okay . And after Everyone was feel like
MJ
GB
Visited:
April 2022
Reviewed: May 16, 2022
Email MJ | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
The most corrupt, dirty city littered with beggars
Dar-Es-Salaam is the most corrupt, dirty city. Littered by beggars constantly asking for money. From the time you land in Dar-es-Salaam until you leave they will extract as much money from you as a foreigner and create unnecessary problems for you even if you do not have one just to extract money from you. During my recent experience I was returning back to England and I was asked for USD 100 just so I can take some species I bought. The country has no laws or regulations. Everyone makes their own laws as they go along to create problems to tourists and extract as much money as possible. A destination to avoid at all costs.
Aidan
UG
Visited:
August 2020
Reviewed: Aug 31, 2020
Email Aidan | under20 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
there are a lot of animals but to many cars that disturb migrations and i feel so bad for the animals