Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs VanZylrus from UK

Our 2017 trip

On this trip, I visited South Africa between 31-Aug-2017 and 18-Sep-2017 and I travelled with 1 other person.

EA had organised the majority of our trip and we were very happy with our choice of accommodation and the arrangements made.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Acorn House, South Africa 1-Sep-2017 review: Acorn Guesthouse review	Excellent
Avondrood Guest House 3-Sep-2017 review: Avondrood Guest House review	Excellent
Swiss Villa 6-Sep-2017 review: Swiss Villa - by name only	Average
Augrabies Falls Restcamp, South Africa 8-Sep-2017 review: Augrabies rest camp	Excellent
Vanzyls Rus Hotel 9-Sep-2017 review: VanZyl Rus	Excellent
Kgalagadi Lodge 10-Sep-2017 review: Kgalagadi Lodge review	Excellent
Kalahari Tented Camp, South Africa 12-Sep-2017 review: KTC	Excellent
Mata Mata Rest Camp, South Africa 15-Sep-2017 review: Mata mata	Excellent

In search of Orlov,Sergei & Oleg in red dunes

On this trip, I visited South Africa between 16-Sep-2016 and 3-Oct-2016 and I travelled with 1 other person.

As always with EA you know what you get: Expert Service! This time around it's no different.

Our long awaited and thoroughly planned first trip to Kalagadi Transfontier all looked good until British Airways threw the spanner in by rescheduling our flight to depart 14hrs later than the original time. However Tracy expertly resolved the problem by booking us to SAA and we were on our way to KTP!

We had an excellent trip and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience of the Kalahari.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

Website a bit too complicated - lots to digest

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Vanzyls Rus Hotel 17-Sep-2016 review: A very quirky place in a far far away place	Excellent
Urikaruus Wilderness Camp, South Africa 18-Sep-2016 review: Great camp	Excellent
Kielie Krankie Wilderness Camp, South Africa 22-Sep-2016 review: Proper Dunescape!	Excellent

African Adventure in more ways than one!!!

On this trip, I visited Botswana, Namibia & South Africa between 25-Sep-2009 and 18-Oct-2009 and I travelled with 1 other person.

We planned our trip a year and a half ahead of our travel date, which allowed us to book all the accommodation that we wanted to stay in at the places we wanted to visit. Maruska is fantastically knowledgeable and very friendly and always tried to match our wishes with the places that she knew would suit us. This proved very much the case with KTC. We were sad that Maruska had moved to New Zealand, by the time we returned, however, we had the pleasure of meeting Chris McIntyre and Tracy Lederer who were also very kind and helpful on our return.

Prior to our departure in addition to Chris' books and the brochure, the literature and the organization of the vouchers and pictures of the places we were staying at, were excellent. We often spent time at airports spotting EA travel tags!!!
We also met other travellers who were equally happy with their EA trip.

We had the most wonderful trip, which surpassed all our expectations. We would definitely recommend Expert Africa to anyone wishing to travel to Africa, particularly for making it such a personally tailored experience. We certainly will be using EA on our next trip!

Just to mention as well we had a very comfortable stay at the Brigadoon in Swakopmund run by a lovely called Margaret .

Feedback response

Maruska is still working full-time for Expert Africa - and has started our first overseas office, in New Zealand.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Muchenje Safari Lodge, Botswana 26-Sep-2009 review: Beautiful lodge over looking the flood plains	Excellent
Khwai Tented Camp, Botswana 28-Sep-2009 review: Camping at its best!!!	Excellent
Mapula Lodge, Botswana 1-Oct-2009 review: Beautiful place in the delta	Excellent
The Airport Grand, South Africa 4-Oct-2009 review: The Airport Grand review	Good
Okonjima Plains Camp, Namibia 5-Oct-2009 review: Brilliant place for Cheetahs!	Excellent
Okaukuejo Camp, Namibia 7-Oct-2009 review: Wonderful Waterhole!!	Excellent
Hobatere Lodge, Namibia 9-Oct-2009 review: Stunning Location....But....	Average
Doro Nawas, Namibia 10-Oct-2009 review: Weird but Wonderful!!	Excellent
Sam's Giardino, Namibia 12-Oct-2009 review: Sam's Giardino	Good
Bishops' Court, South Africa (this camp has since closed) 15-Oct-2009 review: Wonderful place!!	Excellent