AVOCET TANZANIA SAFARIS

We just came back from a 2 day safari to the Tarangire Nationalpark and Ngorongoro Crater. Despite the short amount of time this was a mindblowing experience also thanks to our amazing guide Bakari who had a lot of knowledge, great driving skills and calmly answered all our questions no matter how idiotic they were. Highly recommend!!!

Highly reccomnded
The most professional safari company in Tanzania! Great organisation and hospitality and very reasonably priced.
Jeff, Mike and Waldon are super helpful they made sure our safari is remarkable

I just finished a three day safari with Avocet and it was amazing. Our driver/guide, Niko was very good and above all an excellent driver always willing to help us. Our chef, Erika, made us very good dishes and was super nice during the trip. I recommend !

We got sold 4 days safari with 4 days FULL day game drive

Day 1 „full day game drive“ entering the Tarangire Park: 12:45 p.m, driving out at 5 p.m
At the entrance gate to the national park were the guides rather chatting with each other then buying the entrance tickets and go finally on a safari
We were told we would sleep the first night in a comfortable king-size bed. We ended up sleeping in a single bed which was 1,80 m long (I´m 1,92m). The mattress was so thin that one could feel the wood under the mattress

Day 2 „full day game drive“
Entering Ngorongoro: 12:30 a.m, driving out at 5:15 p.m
Breakfast started at 9 a.m. After breakfast, we had to wait because the cars weren´t packed correctly and the guides had to change. Before entering the Ngorongoro the guides did again a lot of small talk and wasted time. Then our car with all the guests inside had to push another car from the company because it had broken down
From 5:15 p.m until 8 p.m we drove at high speed through the Serengeti to our camping space. Couldn´t see any animals at this high speed and arrived at the camping ground when it was dark.

Day 3 „full day game drive“ 8 a.m – 4:15 p.m (this was the only day that came close to an actual full day game drive)
We started driving in the Serengeti at 8 a.m, we were by far not the first car who left the camp. After 4:15 p.m we were driving again at high speed to the camp in Ngorongoro Crater for the night.

Day 4 „full day game drive“ 7:15 a.m – 1:40 p.m
Unfortunately, we have been always one of the last cars that start driving in the mornings.
Because the same car we had to push on day 2 broke down again, we had to take all the people from this car in our car. This means that all the seats 2 people had to sit. Safety!?
Apart from that, because this costs us a lot of time, the driver had to drive really really fast to make it to later appointments. Some people feared for their lives

In total very unprofessional company and a disappointing experience. Especially because this tip cost us 650 USD per person.
Please stay away from this company.

Je suis très étonnée de lire des commentaires positifs car personnellement mon expérience avec Avocet a été horrible ! Le chauffeur (Amos) était très antipathique et n'a donné aucune information sur les animaux et le programme. Amos se garait toujours très mal par rapport aux autres véhicules donc nous avons toujours eu les pires angles pour observer les animaux. Amos et l'autre chauffeur d'Avocet (Nico) faisaient en sorte de passer le moins de temps possible dans les parcs et nous ont menti un très grand nombre de fois. Au total pour un safari de 5 jours : jour 1 = 2h de safari à Tarangire, jour 2 = moins de 2h de safari à Serengeti, jour 3 = Amos a accéléré pour quitter le parc Serengeti au plus vite sans donner la moindre explication donc nous n'avons eu qu'une demie-journée dans un bout du parc, jour 4 = matinée à Ngorongoro (après avoir du lourdement négocier pour commencer le safari à 6h et non à 9h comme le voulaient Amos et Nico qui insistaient pour raccourcir notre temps de safari), midi et après-midi entièrement dans des camps à attendre que le temps passe au lieu de rester dans le parc de Ngorongoro, jour 5 = demie-journée à Manyara pour laquelle j'ai pu changer de chauffeur (j'ai eu Alan qui était très bien, mais ça ne rattrape pas l'enfer vécu pendant la globalité de ce séjour - des années d'économies pour vivre un rêve qui se transforme en cauchemar !). Cuisinière Erika atroce : nourriture mauvaise et elle a fait tout un cinéma parce qu'elle trouvait qu'on ne lui avait pas donné assez de pourboires (elle réclamait plus de 100$ par jour !). Les portes des tentes étaient cassées et la pluie rentrait à l'intérieur. Un point positif ? Aucun ! Fuyez, ne perdez pas votre temps avec cette horrible agence !