Reviews of Stanley's Camp
Wildlife sightings and reviews
16 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Stanley's Camp and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
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"Stanley's Camp review"
The game drives were very good but compared to Meno A Kwena and the Northern Botswana mobile safari there was less game to see. The vehicle was the least comfortable and the terrain extremely bumpy! None the less my guide Ike (who even though suffering with a really bad cold) did his best to seek out the game.
The best part of this stay was the Grey Matter, Elephant Experience. Whatever my expectations of this were they were multipled 1000 fold. Doug Groves is one of the most incredible people I have ever met, he is the fourth elephant. His knowledge and love for these beautiful creatures is breath taking. If like me you feel an affinity with these astounding animals then make sure you include the experience when you book." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
"Stanley's Camp review"
The elephant experience was very worthwhile if you want to get up close and personal and learn more about elephants but they are humanised so do undertake "tricks".
Not a huge amount of game on our visit." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 3n in Zambia
"Stanley's Camp review"
We tried to ask questions of the guide to encourage more dialogue during the game drives, but received short answers and no further discussion unless prompted by us. Based on our limited interactions with other guides at Stanley's, we believe that our experience was limited to our guide, but it nonetheless put a damper on our overall experience.
The saving grace of Stanley's, for the purposes of our trip, was the Elephant Experience, which we really enjoyed. In fact, the Elephant Experience was the reason we requested Stanley's in the first place. However, knowing what we know now, we would have requested to stay a single night at Stanley's, just long enough to do the Elephant Experience.
We would recommend Stanley's for people looking for luxurious accommodations who are not concerned about the quality of guiding, or for those very interested in the Elephant Experience (but just for one night)." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
We passed on these travellers comments to the management of Stanley’s Camp, who were very concerned and responded speedily:
“We take feedback of this nature very seriously, as we pride ourselves in our standard of guiding at all our camps. We believe it is an integral part of a safari experience and because of this we invest a great deal of time training and developing our guides. We have a dedicated training officer and over and above this run a guide training programme annually for all our guides. As you can imagine this is a substantial investment on our part.
This feedback has been dealt with at the highest level within Sanctuary Retreats and our Operations director in Botswana will be addressing this directly with the guide concerned and the necessary steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again.”
We are pleased that this has been dealt with at such a high level – and feel confident that they are acting swiftly to rectify this issue.
In addition, the camp wanted us to convey their apologies for a disappointing stay, and have made a kind gesture to these travellers to try to make up for their disappointment.
"Stanley's Camp review"
Delicious food.
Comfortable room." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
"Wonderful safaris at Stanleys"
Harry the chef was excellent
Carter our guide was superb His knowledge was amazing
Our wildlife viewings were the best here seeing both lion and leopard cubs Carter 's reaction when 2 female elephants charged us was instantanious I lost my fleece in the panic but Alan went out later and found it for me" See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana; 3n in Zambia
"Stanley's Camp review"
I would like to thank Carter, my guide for my stay, in particular, for everything he did, for his instruction, and knowledge.
And as an experience, The walk with the Elephants, is some which will be with me for always. All the drives gave good game viewing.
I had a wonderful time." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
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