BOOKING YOUR TRIP
Contact us at:
Enquiries: Mbweni Ruins Hotel, P O Box 2542, Zanzibar, TANZANIA
Tel. +255 24 223 5478/9 Fax +255 24 223 0536
Email: hotel@mbweni.com Web: www.mbweni.com
Tel +255-22-2452005/6 Fax +255-22-2452004
Reservations and Enquiries: reservations@adventurecamps.co.tz
Web: www.adventurecamps.co.tz
Consider using an agent who specialises in Africa
to book your trip.
Although we are happy to make your travel arrangements within Tanzania, making all your flights and arrangements can be a very complex business and we recommend that you consider using a knowledgeable agent in your own country. Note that booking with a good overseas tour operator should be no more expensive than booking directly with us, and may even be cheaper.
Choose a specialist African travel agent or tour operator who can spend the time on the phone (or in person) discussing and debating all the issues and options that will make your safari a great and memorable experience. There are a number of superb Africa specialist travel agencies and tour operators who love Africa and really know about it from personal experience. These operators always come to visit our camps and hotel to see for themselves what they are recommending to their clients before they send a single guest.
What to look for:
Listen out for word of mouth recommendations, they are usually remarkably reliable. The good Africa experts are well known by their satisfied customers.
Look out for operators who offer high-quality tailor-made safaris to suite your needs.
Check for adverts in wildlife newspapers or magazines.
Find out how long they have been in business in Africa
If they don't know what they are talking about, withdraw politely.
There are local agents and safari companies in Tanzania and Internet searches will give you a lot of information from them and from the International Agents.
Denmark I Germany I Italy I Netherlands & Belgium I Spain I Switzerland I S. Africa
UNITED KINGDOM
Expert Africa (formerly Sunvil Africa) aims to help you to make well-informed decisions for your trips and safaris to Africa. Their website will help you to research by giving you first-hand, independent views and easy access to further information, including direct links to most safari camps, game lodges and beach retreats that they offer. The team here also write the guidebooks – including the new Bradt Travel Guide to Zanzibar.
Contact Eleanor Dunkels
Take a look at our different properties on the Expert Africa website:
www.expertafrica.com/lodge/Selous_Impala_Camp.htm
www.expertafrica.com/lodge/Lake_Manze_Tented_Camp.htm
www.expertafrica.com/lodge/Mdonya_Old_River.htm
www.expertafrica.com/lodge/mbweni_ruins_hotel.htm
Audley Travel are a reliable and energetic company and all their specialists have extensive first-hand knowledge of the country borne out of their own travels or even living there. They specialise in tailormade individual itineraries for discerning travellers seeking authentic experiences around the world, including Africa.
Contact: alexandra.matts@audleytravel.com
Africa Travel Resource, UK is a family of websites that have been designed to help people make intelligent and informed decisions about travelling to the safari countries of Africa.
It is also a travel bureau which specialises in helping to create interesting and unusual safari for customers who have an appreciation for authenticity. One of the biggest operators sending clients from UK to Tanzania.
For people serious about safari, who want great experiences, good value and expert advice.
Contact: info@africatravelresource.com
Foxes African Safaris, UK - a family run business who really know about Tanzania.
Contact: fox@tanzaniasafaris.info
Okavango Tours & Safaris live and breathe Africa and have found many special places there for you. Through continued individual travel and research they have gained the knowledge to create a balanced holiday to suit you personally.
Contact theresa@okavango.com
Tribes Travel is a multi award-winning travel company offering quality holidays and safaris run on fair trade and responsible travel principles. Tribes is for travellers who want to see the world in a different light, experiencing it through the eyes of its native people. They offer unique holidays, whether you are looking for culture and heritage, fabulous wildlife holidays and African Safaris, moutain trekking or gentle walking, luxury holidays or simply pure relaxation in some very special places.
Contact: info@tribes.co.uk
Tanzania Odyssey are specialist UK operators to Tanzania and Zanzibar. An enduring passion for East Africa and the Indian Ocian islands led to the creation of Tanzania Odyssey, dedicated solely to devising the finest holidays that this part of the world has to offer.
Contact: info@tanzaniaodyssey.com
Safari Consultants really know what they are talking about when it comes to Africa. They look after their guests like nannies, and give us camps a hard time. Contact: info@safariconsultantuk.com
Zanzibar Travel can help you plan your adventure to Zanzibar and on safari on mainland Tanzania. It is a family owned and managed organisation with 35 years of experience.
Contact: info@zanzibartravel.co.uk
Imagine Africa - contact info@imagineafrica.co.uk
Safari and Beach specialists with one of the most comprehensive Tanzania programmes in the UK.
On and off the beaten track – they know all the luxury lodges, bush camps and beach hotels
Aardvark Safaris make sure you see the real Africa, family safaris, tailor made holidays, honeymoon safari and small private groups.
DENMARK
Blixen Tours are a family owned Tourist Agency based in Denmark, who arrange trips to Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Contact: post@blixentours.dk
Website: www.blixentours.dk
USA
Safari Experts offers custom, "off-the-beaten track", personalized Safari Tours and Adventures in Africa. You are met and guided at every destination by local experts. These are trips of a lifetime that you will never forget!
Contact: safari@safariexperts.com
ITALY
Kalahari Safaris. Contact: elena@kalahari.it
SPAIN
Jumbo Palma De Mallorca
Since it's inception in 1977 Jumbo Tours has focussed on becoming one of the market leaders in the International Incoming Network. Their multi-skilled team of professionals offers the highest quality of service and the know-how to meet all client's needs and requirements in today's competitive marketplace.
Contact: zanzibar@jumbotours.com
GERMANY
Concept Reisen. Contact: concept_reisen@startpartner.net
Abendsonne Afrika
Wir sind Spezialveranstalter für das südliche/östliche Afrika und führen aufregende und spannende Safaris für Individualisten und Kleingruppen durch.
African Sunset is a German-based special tour operator for southern and eastern Africa and offers exciting safaris for individualists and small groups. They offer only preselected and carefully well-chosen lodgings which they have visited themselves.
NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM
SWITZERLAND
SOUTH AFRICA
Exotic Vacations
Exotic Vacations is a tour operator that specialises in, as the name implies, "Exotic" vacations. Tropical Island vacations and Winter Ski Vacations are as exotic as you can get, especially at the carefully selected Exotic Vacations resorts.
Tours Da Africa. Contact: craigvr@mweb.co.za
Dream Destinations specialises in trips to romantic getaways.
Contact:
info@dreamdestinations.co.za
TANZANIA
Coastal Travels, Tanzania
Contact: safari@coastal.cc
Runs the largest network of scheduled flights of light aircraft and charter all over Tanzania; they are also Tour Operators taking bookings north and south.
Rangers Safaris, Tanzania - contact sharon@alphauk.co.uk
Kearsleys Travel and Tours, Tanzania
Ebony Tours and Safaris, Tanzania
Simba Safaris Ltd , Tanzania
Leopard Tours, Tanzania
Afric 'Aventure, Tanzania
Tabasam Tours, Zanzibar
Albatros Travels, Denmark, South Africa, Tanzania
Bushbuck Safaris, Tanzania
Msafari Travel, Tanzania
Safi Safaris, Tanzania
Waljis Travel, Tanzania
ZANZIBAR
Jumbo Tours, Zanzibar. Contact: zanzibar@jumbotours.com
Kibo Slopes Safaris, Tanzania and Kenya
CC Africa, South Africa
Thompson's Tours, South Africa
Zan tours, Zanzibar
Fisherman Tours, Zanzibar. Contact: reservations@fishermantours.com
Madeira Tours, Zanzibar. Contact: madeira@zanlink.com
Zanzibar Travel Services, Zanzibar
Veratour, Zanzibar
Jambo Tours, Zanzibar
Ocean Tours, Zanzibar. Contact: info@oceantourszanzibar.com
Equator Tours, Zanzibar. Contact: eqt@zanlink.com