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A special experience for our National Park safari tour lodging: wildlife roams the grounds, including zebras, wildebeest, elephants, antelopes and warthogs.

• Adventure: Authentic with high standards. Most National Park safari tours include tented lodging. Most have swimming pools. May have spa treatments available. May include complimentary soft drinks, local beer and house wines.
• Premium: High standards. Most National Park safari tours include tented lodging. Most have swimming pools. May have spa treatments available. May include complimentary soft drinks, local beer and house wines.
• Premium Plus: Highest standards. All National Park safari tours include tented lodging accommodations. All lodging features swimming or infinity pools and spa treatments. May have exercise facilities. Most include complimentary soft drinks, local beer and house wines. Special amenities may include complimentary mountain bikes and easy biking paths.

Pricing reflects a minimum of 3-4 people with double occupancy. Single supplement, 2 people in a group, and triple, quad or family pricing are available on request.

Premium Touches

• Presence of Co-Founder and Co-Owner Roger each day, available for most tours at no additional cost.
• Up to 4-5 people per Land Cruiser, not six as with other tour operators.
• Premium and Premium Plus hotels and tented lodges, all with beautiful, clean private bathrooms.
• Laundry services provided for a fee at all hotels and lodges. Some Premium Plus lodging may feature complimentary laundry.
• Premium pools and spa facilities available at most hotels and lodges.
• Internet access 24/7 at all hotels and lodges we select, also available at airports, cafés and restaurants.
• Electrical outlets in all hotels and tented lodges and within our Land Cruisers.
• Refrigerated water, wine, beer and sodas within our Land Cruisers.
• Picnic breakfasts and lunches in the bush, and spontaneous singing entertainment from lodge staff.
• Cultural immersion experiences in each tour: indigenous tribes, ranger-guided National Park and waterfall partial day-hikes, tribal herbal remedy tours and town tours.
• In-country flights to the Northern, Central and Southern Serengeti, to Zanzibar and Mafia Islands, and to Gombe National Park in search of the Jane Goodall chimpanzees.
• Optional hot air balloon rides scheduled throughout the Serengeti and at Tarangire National Park.
• Sundowner game drives and sunset view relaxation moments complete with refreshments.
• Kilimanjaro: 4-season North Face mountaineering tents, personal chefs, fresh food delivered mid-mountain, five crew (instead of 3) per trekker, private mobile toilets, private camp showers, and summiting from Kosovo, the permit-required highest base camp at 16,000 feet.
• Celebrating a birthday, anniversary or other occasion? We will boost your celebration with a cake, singing and dancing, wine and champagne.
• Pricing inclusive of meals, lodging, Land Cruisers, fuel, National Park fees, in-country airfares, airport transfers, staff salaries and taxes, and all tips for drivers, guides, park rangers, Kilimanjaro crew, hotel porters and maid service. No reaching into your pocket for tips of any kind.
• Other requests or suggestions? We would love to add something special to your tour, just let us know.