Africa: Reviews from our travellers
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"My Jul 2012 trip"
PS - our driver Stanford at Ngorongora could not have been more helpful and knowledgeable - he gave us a real insight into the local culture and traditions and coped admirably with three very long days.
The transfers in Zanzibar were the opposite. The driver meeting us in Stonetown barely said hello and never said a word during the 80 minute drive to Baraza. The return trip back to Stonetown was not much better (although we were picked up at 4am!). We were dropped off at Stonetown airport with no offer of assistance to discover we had to wait over an hour before the Coastal desk opened. It would have helped if the driver had shown us where to wait and warned us that we were early - Stonetown airport is not exactly Heathrow T5!" Read full review: 15 nights in Africa; 9 on a Tanzania safari
"trip of a lifetime"
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keep doing what you are doing, great trip. next time we are Africa bound we will definitely be in touch. Thanks a million" Read full review: 20 nights in Africa; 15 on a Namibia trip
"Unforgettable!"
Botswana was even more astonishing than I had anticipated and I would love to go back.
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Thank you Nick for all your advice and help and for your unfailing good humour. Next time I will have a clearer idea of exactly what suits us - just have to put the pennies on one side!" Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari
"My Jul 2012 trip"
The realillty for us was to meet the most friendly local people of any past holiday, experience mostly excellent service and food, see some amazing animals and scenery and feel very comfortable with everything around us. We wanted to go over land as we enjoy the travelling and self driving. This was fun in its self as the roads were mostly totally empty. We will certainly go back again and explore more new places in Africa.
I think for people making their 1st African self drive trip, Namibia is a good destination. The itinery put together by Expert Africa was well thought out, took in all the highlights and made the whole thing work well with realistic driving targets. The documentation that we were sent before hand was well considered and allowed us to make good preparations.
We would certainly have no problems recommending them to friends or using them again." Read full review: 16 nights in Africa; 12 on a Namibia trip
"We'll return to celebrate some anniversary!"
Everything was worth it and Expert Africa really helped us out. Their suggestions were spot on and their assistance was invaluable in planning such a trip to a destination completely unknown to us.
Our only regret was not having taken more time to see more of Namibia (we wish to go see the Caprivi region and Damaraland). We'll have to leave that for the next time we visit the country!" Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 11 on a Namibia trip
"gorillas and wildebeest in the wild"
generally everything was excellent, except the Milles Collines Hotel was very poor in copmparison and worse than expected" Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 7 on a Tanzania safari
"AWESOME TRIP"
For the most part, everything ran smoothly. Transfers were on time, reservations were all correct. Only hiccup was at Kati Kati, where we were directed to three different camps before finding the correct one. Other than that the trip was truly amazing. Each place knew we were on our honeymoon and did special little things for us.
Nomad Tanzania, and especially our guide, Cornelius, were amazing. Made our trip so much better than we could have expected. Will be recommending an African trip, Maruska, Nomad, and Expert Africa to all our our friends and families.
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None." Read full review: 18 nights in Africa; 10 on a Zanzibar holiday
"Zambian Anniversary Trip"
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I wanted to let you know that we didn't have to pay the airport tax twice if our second flight was a domestic flight. We ended up having someone from Robin Pope let us know that and he went to customer service and got us a waiver from the fee. It was nice of them to let us know." Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 7 on a Zambia safari
"Our trip was everything we wanted and more!"
I think we both came away feeling we wouldn't have wanted anything else in our honeymoon and wouldn't have changed a thing." Read full review: 12 nights in Africa; 7 on a Tanzania safari