Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs R - Hereford

---

Namibian adventure 2012

On this trip, I visited Namibia between 3-Sep-2012 and 26-Sep-2012 and I travelled with 1 other person.

The longest and best trip, apart from only seeing 2 lions. We always pass on our experiences to interested friends and recommend Expert Africa. For those who are interested in the wild life we emphasise the need to stay at least 2 days at each destination, only using 1night stops to break long journeys. We also recommend full board and activities packages. This avoids carrying a lot of cash and use of credit cards.

Many thanks to Sabina for her organisation. Diana nearly always benefitted from accommodation close to the main area.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

An annual update of the prices in Chris McIntyre's manual ( the bible ) would be helpful.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Elegant Farmstead, Namibia 4-Sep-2012 review: A good first night stop over	Good
Okonjima Main Camp, Namibia 5-Sep-2012 review: Our forth visit , even better than expected.	Excellent
C'est Si Bon Hotel 8-Sep-2012 review: Very pleasant if you have a garden room	Good
Okaukuejo Camp, Namibia 11-Sep-2012 review: Best place to do your own Safari	Good
Dolomite Camp, Namibia 14-Sep-2012 review: Interesting new camp	Good
Etendeka Mountain Camp, Namibia 16-Sep-2012 review: A Real Bush Camp	Excellent
Doro Nawas, Namibia 19-Sep-2012 review: A Gothic experience.	Average
Huab Lodge, Namibia 21-Sep-2012 review: Nice to be back with friends.	Excellent
Erongo Wilderness Lodge, Namibia 23-Sep-2012 review: End of a great holiday.	Good

---

Interesting to see Namibia "Green"

On this trip, I visited Namibia between 7-Apr-2011 and 23-Apr-2011 and I travelled with 1 other person.

Your organisation was excellent. The academic part exceeded expectation, allowing us to make some very useful contacts .

The lack of variety of wildlife in Etosha was disappointing but expected ,The exposure to the cats at other camps was compensation

The stay at Huab was a welcome rest.

in these weather conditions a low wheel based 2 wheeled drive car was not adequate and we were very lucky not to have caused major uninsured damage to the car.

We cant thank your people in Windhoek enough for helping us to find accommodation when we had to leave Erindi early before our flight home.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

It would be useful to have advance info: about the weather and suitability of the car booked for the camps to be visited

Advise clients to have local sim cards for their phones if necessary, available at the Airport.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Amani Lodge, Namibia 8-Apr-2011 review: good first night stop	Good
Under own arrangements 9-Apr-2011 review: Very satisfactory and stimulating visit.	Good
Huab Lodge, Namibia 13-Apr-2011 review: Very relaxing and peaceful.	Good
Okaukuejo Camp, Namibia 15-Apr-2011 review: The wet season is a different experience.	Average
Okonjima Bush Camp, Namibia 17-Apr-2011 review: Lovely to be back.	Good
Erindi Game Lodge 20-Apr-2011 review: Holiday Inn meets Longleat !	Terrible

---

Can't wait till next time

On this trip, I visited Namibia between 8-Sep-2009 and 25-Sep-2009 and I travelled with 1 other person.

A very satisfactory trip including both holiday and some preliminary evaluation of a comparative anatomy project. Apart from the problems with the air travel,which could hardly have been foreseen, the planning of this trip was very straight foreward and the negotiations with CCF went extremely well. We were always kept informed and the final cost of the trip was very close to our original budget.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

This is the most difficult question you have asked and we cannot think of anything so far. Very sad to hear that Maruska has left, who will organise our next trip?

Expert Africa responds

Maruska has sadly left the UK office to set up an Expert Africa satelite office in her home country - New Zealand. She is still reachable by email and will remain very much part of Expert Africa. However, for ease of contact, she recommends that all our UK travellers contact one of her very able colleagues at Expert Africa by phone or email - whilst she will be concentrating more on our travellers who live in Australasia and North America.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Terra Africa, Namibia 9-Sep-2009 review: Relaxing day in Windhoek	Good
Amani Lodge, Namibia 10-Sep-2009 review: A very pleasant start to our trip.	Good
Otjibamba Country Lodge, Namibia 11-Sep-2009 review: Accomadation for trip to CCF	Average
Onguma Bush Camp, Namibia 13-Sep-2009 review: Good choice for East Etosha	Good
Halali Camp, Namibia 15-Sep-2009 review: Great Etosha waterhole tour	Average
Okaukuejo Camp, Namibia 18-Sep-2009 review: Luxury waterhole viewing.	Good
Hobatere Lodge, Namibia 19-Sep-2009 review: Hobatere the ultimate game lodge.	Excellent
Okonjima Main Camp, Namibia 22-Sep-2009 review: Okonjima Main Camp review	Good