Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"Overall this was an incredible experience and we have some amazing memories. Safari was great and Zanzibar very relaxing. We are extremely happy with our trip. Expert Africa organized everything for us very smoothly, all the preparation prior to the trip and the journey itself has been planned excellent. We will definitely refer to Expert Africa on our next trip to Africa.

One additional comment, when checking out from Mchanga Beach Lodge, we've realized that some of our money (rather big amount) was missing. We're not sure when and where this exactly could have happened, so we don't want to make any accusations. We kept it the money all the time in the safe provided by Impala Camp or Mchanga Beach Lodge. Thus, we worry that it has been taken from there at one of the places.

The transfers on Zanzibar was done by ECO Tours. We had the same driver for all our trips and he also organized us a Spice Tour. We were very happy with the local service. The driver was friendly and reliable." Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 5 on a Tanzania safari

"Fantastic! The opportunity to stay in 2 different parks (Ruaha and Selous) was very good, as they have a quite different feel to them and also different weather. Going at low season was beneficial to us as we received more personal attention than if we were just part of a crowd. It also meant that there were not loads of other safari vehicles at a sighting.

We did experience some rainfall in both parks, though more in Ruaha, but this did not unduly affect our activities and did not present a problem. We had some excellent sightings even though the bush was green and leafy, and it was actually quite good to have them scattered throughout the parks rather than being all in one place next to a water hole.

Both camps were excellent, in their different ways.

Can't wait to go again!

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

No, none." Read full review: 13 nights in Africa; 12 on a Tanzania safari

"Expert Africa's assistance when our flight was delayed overnight was very good and helped rescue the first part of our holiday.

All of the arrangements worked according to plan." Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 2 on a Tanzania safari

"Excellent despite BA disappointment.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

Look at your Hotel choices in Stone Town." Read full review: 10 nights in Africa; 8 on a Tanzania safari

"As before, excellent. We got great advice about where to stay. Efficient service, good communications. Thank you." Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 3 on a Zanzibar holiday

"Emmanauel our guide for the first ten days. Excellent. Very experienced. Wide knowledge of the bush and hte country. Pleasant travelling companion. Very anxious to pelase.
Vehicle - very good. Claire had managed to arrange winding windows for us . Essential for my husband's photography.

Emmanuel is to be highly recommended.

Claire is thanked for an excellent programme yet again. We identified 48 different mammals. 266 different birds!

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Keep up the contacts with places that we visited. They all spoke very highly of Expert Africa. They liked the fact that the staff actually stay at the camps rather than just calling in for a couple of hours." Read full review: 18 nights in Africa; 18 on a Tanzania safari

"Zanzibar is great extremely cheep when you look around as I spend a lot ad time in Uganda I am looking forwand to getting to know Zanzibar better in the future our driver was great didn't try to sell us anything" Read full review: 8 nights in Africa;

"A perfect trip ,which exceeded all our expectations. No hitches whatsoever, a totally amazing experience from start to finish.

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You were absolutely outstanding in your recommendations and suggestions. I cannot think of one negative aspect." Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 10 on a Namibia trip

"This was our first trip to Africa and, thanks to Saskia Adye's excellent help and advice, it was a thoroughly memorable and enjoyable month-long holiday with fantastic game sightings as well as lots of cultural interactions.

We were extremely happy with all of our accommodation and transfers. The only disappointment was Rwandair Express which is the most unreliable airline that we've ever flown with, but Saskia did warn me of that in advance so I should have taken her advice to fly SAA instead!

Would highly recommend Expert Africa - and Saskia Adye in particular - to anyone planning a trip to this fascinating continent.

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You thought of everything so .....no!" Read full review: 24 nights in Africa; 5 on a Rwanda safari

"Just brilliant" Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 9 on a Tanzania safari