Hi Nick,
I was going to email you this week to say Thank You for organising such a perfect trip!
Everywhere we stayed was fantastic and the guides were amazing. We really had the best honeymoon we could have ever imagined!
The Safari was great, we saw everything we wanted and more, including about 1million wildebeest! We were so lucky!
Kilindi was a dream, and they treated us like royalty! The food was amazing and we have definitely got some work to do after 3 weeks of eating and drinking so well!
The only comments I would have to help future travellers, and it’s not a complaint, more an observation, is that we never got any boarding passes for the Coastal flights (on your itinerary it said we would be given them on the 1st flight). It was so laid back on safari that it didn’t matter but when we left Zanzibar on the last day for the final flight to Dar Es Salam they weren’t very happy with us that we didn’t have any boarding passes. They let is through anyway, and we got the flight but it looked unlikely for a few minutes, even though our names were on their charter!
Also, the guide from Serene tours that picked us up at Zanzibar Airport wasn’t the most inspiring, we couldn’t understand him very well, and he was trying to sell us tours and boat trips, but he couldn’t give us a leaflet or a hard copy price guide, so I had to write down the information in the car, which wasn’t very helpful. He said he would come back the next day to Kilindi for us to book up what we wanted, but we asked Kilindi to ring him and tell him that we had booked trips locally. We booked all our trips via Kilindi and they were great (and cheaper than Serena). So, I just wondered whether it’s not better to just have a taxi transfer to/from resorts as opposed to a tour guide. The driver who picked us up to take us back to the Airport from Serena didn’t utter a word to us the whole way back so I’m not sure it was worth using Serena.
Anyway, none of it mattered, we had the best time, and can only hope we get to do more trips to Africa in the future!
Is there anywhere public that I could write a review for you?
Cheers,
Kate & Tom