Africa: Reviews from our travellers

"Another superb safari arranged by Expert Africa and Claire Scott. The experience of arranging the trip to being under African skies was flawless. Expert Africa are my go-to Safari provider for a very good reason, they have an exceptional reputation with the camps and lodges and are attentive to your needs as a traveller.

It was an outstanding Safari focusing upon the Mara Conservancies and I could not praise Expert Africa, Claire, and the properties that I visited highly enough. Serian and Kicheche locations are superb with expert guides, management, staff, food, and hospitality are of an exceptional standard and are highly recommended. They really did feel like my home in Africa, and meeting likeminded travellers added to the experience.

One day after returning home I began to discuss my next trip with Claire.

Thank you, Claire, and all at Serian, Kicheche and in Nairobi who made this such an amazing safari and the memories to last a lifetime.

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Simply outstanding from the moment that I began to plan the trip with Claire to the follow-up on my return and my next booking." Read full review: 19 nights in Africa; 18 on a Kenya safari

"A very enjoyable trip overall.

The variety of areas visited was fantastic and wildlife was really plentiful. Best camp of the trip was without a doubt Kicheche Mara.

Lyndsey at Expert Africa is most obliging. There were a couple of "hiccups" along the way, and I must admit having travelled on many safaris, this was a first for me. Lyndsey kindly followed up on every query I had, and I will certainly book again with Expert Africa.

Expert Africa's level of service is excellent, I honestly cannot think of any suggestions that may improve the trips and services." Read full review: 17 nights in Africa; 16 on a Kenya safari

"This was a special, month-long trip to revisit some of our favourite places in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Western Cape. We were joined for part of it by 6 family members, including one son-in-law and two grandchildren (aged 8 & 10) who were having their first experience of Africa.

Lucy took a lot of trouble putting together an itinerary in which everyone’s requests could be included. She made some excellent suggestions for accommodation and activities, which we all enjoyed. The Zambezi cruise on New Year’s Eve was just one example.

As there were eight of us for almost half of the tour, we were treated as a ‘group’. This meant we had our own vehicle and guide for safaris, which was very relaxing and we all had a lot of fun.

A major flight delay at the start threatened to seriously derail our itinerary. It was a couple of days before Christmas, but the team at Expert Africa sprang into action and got everything back on track incredibly quickly.

The South African part of the holiday was just the two of us. It included a hire car and some very high quality accommodation.

We had very high expectations of this trip and were not disappointed, thanks to Lucy and her colleagues." Read full review: 32 nights in Africa; 11 on a Zimbabwe safari

"It was a fantastic trip and I really enjoyed it.

The parks and lodges are beautiful with excellent and full activities and great guides and overall fairly quiet. People were all really friendly too. My focus for this trip was birdwatching and photography and overall I saw 266 species of birds as well as lots of mammals including hippos and elephants as well as two lion sightings of a mother and three cubs and a cheetah sighting.

The evening drives were also great including my first porcupine sighting, a civet cat as well as nightjars, a bat hawk and couple of owls. I'm very glad I included Zomba Mountain too as this provided greater diversity of a different environment in Malawi and more diverse species of birds which can't be seen in the large parks.

It was a wonderful trip!

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Overall the trip was great and Maruska was really helpful in arranging everything. Her speed of response/feedback was great and detailed which is one of the reasons I ended up going on this trip as it 'got ahead of other options'.

Also when I asked about an option, Zomba, which appeared less well known it was followed up quickly and really good arrangements made. I really enjoyed the trip. Thanks!" Read full review: 11 nights in Africa; 8 on a Malawi trip

"The fact that we were already thinking of when we can return to this amazing continent halfway through our trip speaks volumes.

We hope to be back sooner rather than later, thanks for helping to be a part of our dream trip!" Read full review: 7 nights in Africa; 3 on a Kenya safari

"A trip of a lifetime!

We really enjoyed every minute of it, from the flights to the accommodations to the game drives, all was perfectly organised and it felt like a true holiday, thank you!" Read full review: 5 nights in Africa; 5 on a Tanzania safari

"It was very memorable.

Will be looking to go back to Botswana!" Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 8 on a Botswana safari

"I was thoroughly impressed with ExpertAfrica!

We take a 2-3 week trip every year, and usually do it fully independently. For this trip, I had planned out the full trip, and then we decided for fun to see what ExpertAfrica would quote, thinking it would be higher. It turned out to be about 30% cheaper! And on top of that, Maruska provided a lot of benefits we would have otherwise missed out on.

For example, we booked rather far ahead (over a year), and Maruska was able to make the bookings even though they weren't available yet on some hotels websites.

She was also able to determine that a couple would be closed over the holidays and recommended alternatives.

Her step-by-step directions between lodges was also excellent, better than both Google Maps and our physical map.

I'd definitely recommend ExpertAfrica to my friends (or anyone!) and we will be using ExpertAfrica again if we're headed to a country tha ExpertAfrica offers trips to.

Thanks for helping make our trip so memorable!" Read full review: 16 nights in Africa; 16 on a Namibia trip

"Our trip was great!

Start to finish, everything was well taken care of.

Parita was great in understanding what I wanted and not just giving me what others suggested.

Everything was great! Would travel with you all again." Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 8 on a Zanzibar holiday

"Excellent Kenia safari trip in the December season." Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 8 on a Kenya safari