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Travel reviews by Mr K & Mrs T from Germany

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Total number of trips

1

Countries visited

1

Lodges stayed in

3

Excursions taken

0

Botswana, May 2009

Botswana between 19 May 2009 and 30 May 2009

Trip rating: Excellent
"In whole Botswana and the trip exceeded oru expectations."

Selinda Camp

Selinda Camp

"Selinda Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 20 May 2009
"Overall luxurious, very well organised, management and staff very competent and genuinely friendly. Food and service receive the highest notes from us. One really feels the complete personnel is proud to work at Selinda.

Our guide, Mots, he was very knowledgeable and enthusiastistic. All other guides appeared to be as well.

We were most satisfied for our stay there!"
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Good
Facilities
Excellent
Shinde Footsteps

Shinde Footsteps

"Footsteps review"

3 nights Arrived 23 May 2009
"Amazingly luxurious when considering the basic basic set-up as remote camp outside of basic infrastructure. Food was excellent, service very good. The most important for us: the manager and leading guide TT and his assistant guide Aubrey were super-good, skilled and very knowledgeable – and most intelligent and entertaining dinner company, too. We had so good time there, that we really do miss the place already.

On our walks we encountered situations that really test the skills of the guides: black mamba crossing our path just in two meters, 5 male lions sighting us behind the grass in just 20 meters and some more. Even in such extreme situations everything our guides told us and how they reacted and managed the situations confirmed: perfect professionals!

We were sorry to leave the Footsteps! We loved every minute there and could have spent few more days. This is Africa as we like it."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Shinde Camp

Shinde Camp

"Shinde Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 26 May 2009
"Unfortunately we have very little positive to say about Shinde.

Our gamedrive guide, Mr Bee, was so unskilled, that we just can´t believe he has passed any necessary training to become guide. Against our clear wish he for example drove again to show us a wounded lion that was unable to move. He repetitevely steered the wehicle directly into the herds causing the animals to escape. Most of the animals he spotted we had spotted much before him. There were hardly any breaks unless we forced him to stop in order to listen to nature sounds. On other camps this was how the guides spotted animals that were not visible yet.

The „managing“ youngsters (Magda and Falie) appear to lack the necessary experience and natural born competence and have not gained the undestanding on how to run a camp. They master small talk and entertainment but from our perspective such suits better a cabaret. This is however not what we do expect on a camp in Botswana.

One guide being a low light could be acceptable as one just can't always get the best cards but we are confident the problem was not just our guide. Merely the root here is the camp management. They appear to be totally lost and as young, dynamic and career minded persons try to hide it behind all that „hahaha hohoho, you guys, see any big stuff -management“.

Just one of the countless occasions: On one meal one of the guests shot a picture of a dove sitting inside our salad bowl and holding a piece of olive in bill. Magda asked the guest not to upload such a picture into internet as they are not allowed to feed wild animals. The animals, various birds and squirrel were there always and nobody from the staff seemed to care. On other camps all the food was always covered when unattended or not being taken to the plates. This was not the case at Shinde.

Our stay at Shinde camp was waste of time and money!"
Poor
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Poor

Location
Good
Service
Poor
Activities
Poor
Rooms
Average
Food
Average
Facilities
Good

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