Travel reviews by Mr and Mrs G Leicestershire

great adventure

On this trip, I visited South Africa & Zambia between 11-Sep-2011 and 1-Oct-2011 and I travelled with 4 other people.

My husband and I had been to Zambia 3 years ago and were travelling with my brother-in- law and his wife (from Canada) who had not been to Africa before. I think we were all very pleased with the holiday in terms of the huge variety of places we saw and things we did. It was a lot to pack in with 2 countries and 7 different camps/hotels in 3 weeks (so unavoidably a lot of travelling) but it gave us a great flavour of the countries and places we might want to revisit for longer.

We were pleased with the suggestions of places to stay especially the camps in Zambia and in S Africa Bishops Court and Ocean Eleven were really good. In retrospect the only changes I would make would be a day longer at Kaingo with possibly one less at Hog Hollow, and I would prefer to stay at one of the wineries rather than Rusthof.

The trip organisation was again excellent with all the connections, transfers etc working as expected and I would certainly use Expert Africa again for future holidays.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

Perhaps worth considering suggesting people take evaluation forms with them as they are quite detailed and filling them in at the time might be easier and allow a more independent review (rather than comparing the different camps on your return.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Kaingo Camp, Zambia 12-Sep-2011 review: Ver good start to the holiday	Excellent
Shiwa Ng'andu, Zambia 15-Sep-2011 review: Another enjoyable stay with Jo and Charley	Excellent
Sausage Tree Camp, Zambia 18-Sep-2011 review: A good variety of activities	Excellent
Bishops' Court, South Africa 21-Sep-2011 review: Best hotel of the trip	Excellent
Rusthof Country House, South Africa 24-Sep-2011 review: Not our favourite place	Average
Ocean Eleven, South Africa 26-Sep-2011 review: Lots of whales	Excellent
Hog Hollow Country Lodge , South Africa 28-Sep-2011 review: Good hotel, good location	Good