A friend of mine booked what the website called an “all-inclusive Kenya safari tour packages” last year. Flights, transfers, accommodation, game drives — all listed, all present. What wasn’t listed: the game drives were shared with fourteen other guests in an open-sided truck; park fees were charged separately at the
Search “African safari vacation packages“, and you’ll get thousands of near-identical results — glossy photos of lions at sunset, the same handful of stock phrases, and prices that seem to bear no relation to what’s actually included. The wildlife will be extraordinary wherever you book. What separates a trip you’ll
Most people compare three or four safari brochures, pick the one with the nicest photos, and book. Then they land in the Mara, get into a minibus with nine other people, and spend the first game drive realising nobody asked what they actually wanted from the trip. That’s the problem
You’ve got six browser tabs open, each one showing a different set of African safari vacation packages, and none of them are making the decision any easier. One operator’s quote is comfortably mid-range. Another, for what looks on paper like the same seven days, comes in nearly double. The photos
