Travel reviews by Dr R & Dr M - North Yorkshire

excellent

On this trip, I visited Namibia between 12-Aug-2009 and 31-Aug-2009 and I travelled with 1 other person.

thoroughly enjoyed ourselves....would do very little different if starting again. it should be said that we had very fixed ideas long before contacting Expert Africa, and it was a bit of a debate whether to book through you or do it ourselves. Because of this my comments below are frugal and at times we might have been a handful for Sabina. I have to say I am very glad we booked with you and that we were assigned one person...Sabina.

Sabina's advice to stay a couple of nights in some places was probably correct and at Sossus Dunes Lodge and Erongo we could have certainly done with the extra night. We booked flights independently and then Air Namibia stopped flying from the UK. We weren't allowed onto the replacement BA flight at Heathrow and if Expert Africa hadn't sorted it at a moments notice we wouldn't have got there!

Sabina had to rebook everything because of the revised flights which would have been difficult for us alone. We had an accident and we were really grateful for the support from you that was always available on the end of the phone. I should also say that if you hadn't made extra insurance readily available, we would now be very out of pocket...naively we would have thought that the car hire would cover it.

Suggestions for improvement:

no since approaching perfection!
I would certainly recommend you...and my photos are already drumming up new business!

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
UOA 12-Aug-2009 review: Sylvanette Guest House Okahandja	Excellent
Namibgrens Guest Farm 13-Aug-2009 review: mixed review for Namibgrens Guest Farm	Average
Sossus Dune Lodge, Namibia 14-Aug-2009 review: Sossus Dune Lodge - first posh grass roof	Excellent
Lagoon Lodge, Namibia 15-Aug-2009 review: Lagoon Lodge - a nice surprise	Excellent
Brandberg White Lady Lodge, Namibia 17-Aug-2009 review: Brandberg White Lady - small rock paintings	Good
Rustig Toko Lodge 18-Aug-2009 review: Rustig Toko - I enjoyed this	Good
Okaukuejo Camp, Namibia 19-Aug-2009 review: two chalets - take the pricey one!	Excellent
Halali Camp, Namibia 21-Aug-2009 review: a different view of Etosha	Good
Onguma Etosha Aoba, Namibia 22-Aug-2009 review: a nice lodge even though outside park!	Excellent
Shamvura Camp 23-Aug-2009 review: Shamvura for birders	Good
Ndhovu Safari Lodge, Namibia 25-Aug-2009 review: lovely but for the hippos	Excellent
Shakawe Lodge 26-Aug-2009 review: beautiful location	Good
Hakusembe Lodge, Namibia 28-Aug-2009 review: smart lodge	Good
Frans Indongo Lodge, Namibia 29-Aug-2009 review: very smart just not quite right for us	Good
Erongo Wilderness Lodge, Namibia 30-Aug-2009 review: spectacular location	Excellent