Travel reviews by Ms. & Mr. Black-backed Jackal

Perfect Honeymoon!

On this trip, I visited Tanzania & Zanzibar between 20-Jul-2008 and 3-Aug-2008 and I travelled with 1 other person.

Our overall experience was what we dreamed of. Africa is a unique untouched beauty. We would definitely recommend this trip to our friends excluding the Beyt al Chai experience. In the end we did accepted this as an adventure at Zanzibar island, but it wasn't a pleasant thing to happen since it was our honeymoon, if it was in other trip we wouldn't have been so disappointed.

The game drives were great, even with the fact of missing the migration at the Serengeti. The CC Africa lodges are amazing, the staff is very friendly. Everything is great there! It's a worthwhile experience. No one should miss it!

The Matemwe Retreat is all fantastic..and as we said before our butler was tireless!

This trip was everything that we expected. We are very looking forward to go back to Africa very soon.

Feedback response

Good news that overall this trip was great, although this traveller encountered two issues:

Firstly, the specific room that these travellers had booked at Beyt al Chai was occupied; only a smaller room was available for their first night in Stone Town. We resolved this by moving these travellers for that night to the best hotel in town (the Serena: about 100m across the road) – without any extra costs to these travellers.

Secondly, the Serengeti’s great wildebeest migration was running about a month ahead of its normal schedule … so when these travellers reached Grumeti River Camp, in the Western Corridor, the wildebeest had left. This was very unlucky but we couldn’t provide a solution. (The migration wouldn’t have been at Grumeti’s sister-camp, Klein’s Camp, either at the time these travellers visited.)

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Arusha Hotel 21-Jul-2008 review: The perfect honneymoon	Excellent
Grumeti River Camp, Tanzania 22-Jul-2008 review: The perfect lodge to stay at the Serengeti	Good
Lake Manyara Tree Lodge, Tanzania 24-Jul-2008 review: Perfection!	Excellent
Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Tanzania 26-Jul-2008 review: Breathtaking!	Excellent
Matemwe Retreat, Zanzibar 28-Jul-2008 review: Matemwe Retreat review	Excellent
Beyt al Chai, Zanzibar 2-Aug-2008 review: The only thing that went wrong	Terrible