Travel reviews by Mr F & Mrs M from Peru
Review Distribution
Total number of trips
2
Countries visited
7
Lodges stayed in
18
Excursions taken
0
Beautiful experience
Kenya and 1 other country between 20 Jul 2013 and 3 Aug 2013
"We greatly enjoyed our holidays...Mara Camp was superb and our stay at Royal Livingstone was also excellent. Maybe Rovos Rail was not the best choice for a trip with our sons."
Hogmead (Not currently featured by Expert Africa)
"Beautiful house"
1 night
Arrived
21 Jul 2013
"Beautiful place, excellent service."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Good
Service
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
Mara Plains Camp
"Excellent in all aspects"
3 nights
Arrived
22 Jul 2013
"Great location, tents have just been refurbished and are beautifully done. Excellent guide and game safaris. I would really recommend it!"
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Good
Facilities
Excellent
Hogmead (Not currently featured by Expert Africa)
"Hogmead review"
1 night
Arrived
25 Jul 2013
"We were given a small room, very different than our experience when we first arrived in Nairobi."
Average
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average
Location
Good
Service
Average
Rooms
Poor
Food
Good
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
Royal Livingstone Hotel
"Grat location"
2 nights
Arrived
26 Jul 2013
"Beautiful hotel in a superb location"
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Good
Rovos Rail (Not currently featured by Expert Africa)
"Nice but not for young people"
2 nights
Arrived
28 Jul 2013
"A luxury train, with excellent service and food. However, the train route is very monotonous...the same scenery during the 3 days. The only stop to a cattle ranch is not worth it. There are limited activities in the train...no internet, for example and for young people it is not very exciting!"
Average
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Poor
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
The Majalis Lamu (Not currently featured by Expert Africa)
"The Majalis Lamu review"
3 nights
Arrived
30 Jul 2013
"Was not able to complete this part of the trip."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
An excellent african experience
South Africa and 4 other countries between 16 Jul 2012 and 10 Aug 2012
"Overall, I am quite satisfied with my trip. I found that all details were perfectly organized. We had no problems at all with reservations of airlines and hotels. All previous information before the trip was very helpful, as well as the books that we received."
City Lodge OR Tambo
"a convenient hotel"
1 night
Arrived
16 Jul 2012
"A convenient hotel for sleeping between the different destinations. Hotel rooms a little small, but comfortable."
Average
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average
Location
Good
Service
Average
Rooms
Average
Food
Average
Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp
"A good start for our trip"
3 nights
Arrived
17 Jul 2012
"We enjoyed our stay at Nxabeja specially for the excellent staff and attention.
They catered to my special dietary needs from the first day. The tents were nice but very cold at night! The game tours were excellent, with very good and specialized rangers."
They catered to my special dietary needs from the first day. The tents were nice but very cold at night! The game tours were excellent, with very good and specialized rangers."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Good
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Good
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Zambezi Queen
"A different look at Africa"
3 nights
Arrived
20 Jul 2012
"A nice ship, very nicely decorated. The food was good, but not spectacular and I did not get special attention to my dietary needs. Lunches were a buffet type, but without a great variety. The activities were OK. The best were the sundown cruise and the dinner served on land.
Passing through Namibia and Bostwana inmigration posts serveral times was very annoying."
Passing through Namibia and Bostwana inmigration posts serveral times was very annoying."
Good
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good
Location
Good
Service
Good
Activities
Good
Rooms
Good
Food
Good
Facilities
Good
City Lodge OR Tambo
"City Lodge OR Tambo review"
1 night
Arrived
23 Jul 2012
"The same as previous comment"
Average
Marlin Lodge, Mozambique (this camp has since closed)
"A nice rest after a safari"
5 nights
Arrived
24 Jul 2012
"A nice lodge in a nice location with comfortable rooms. Maybe sometimes too quiet. Colette was extremely friendly, as well as all the staff. I would suggest, as I have already done in the hotel feedback, that service during dinner is too slow. Sometimes dinner could last 2 hours!!!
The picnic to Shell island was spectacular as well as the tour to Paradise Island that we booked. We really enjoyed them.
If I could go back in time, maybe I would have booked just 3 nights here and 2 in Indigo Bay to have a look at Bazaruto Island."
The picnic to Shell island was spectacular as well as the tour to Paradise Island that we booked. We really enjoyed them.
If I could go back in time, maybe I would have booked just 3 nights here and 2 in Indigo Bay to have a look at Bazaruto Island."
Good
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good
Location
Good
Service
Good
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Good
Food
Good
Facilities
Excellent
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
City Lodge OR Tambo
"City Lodge OR Tambo review"
1 night
Arrived
29 Jul 2012
"Same as previous comments"
Average
Serena Hotel Dar
"Now called Serena Dar es Salaam"
1 night
Arrived
30 Jul 2012
"We were only passing through. Conveniently located, with a lot of security, comfortable rooms and good food."
Average
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average
Location
Average
Service
Average
Rooms
Average
Food
Good
Grumeti River Camp
"Beautiful setting"
3 nights
Arrived
31 Jul 2012
"The setting of this camp is beautiful, with the river and the hippos. The tents were also quiet nice- My suggestion is regarding the poor lighting, specially in the bathrooms.
The service was very good; the food was nice but I didn't get a special attention to my dietary needs.
The game tours were OK, not as good as compared to Nxabeja maybe because there are not so many animals in the area.
If I could go back to deciding the trip, I would have probably chosen another camp in the Serengeti with a better game area, like Kleins Camp or in central Serengeti. However, at the time I did not have the information I now have."
The service was very good; the food was nice but I didn't get a special attention to my dietary needs.
The game tours were OK, not as good as compared to Nxabeja maybe because there are not so many animals in the area.
If I could go back to deciding the trip, I would have probably chosen another camp in the Serengeti with a better game area, like Kleins Camp or in central Serengeti. However, at the time I did not have the information I now have."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Good
Rooms
Good
Food
Good
Facilities
Excellent
Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
"The best lodge of our trip....superb!!!"
2 nights
Arrived
3 Aug 2012
"We loved staying here.....excellent decoration, room, service, ranger!!! Very recommendable!!!"
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Sultan Palace, Zanzibar (this camp has since closed)
"A small hotel with a personalized service"
4 nights
Arrived
5 Aug 2012
"This hotel would probable not have been my first choice, mainly because of the decoration of the lobby and the rooms. We also felt it was too quiet. However, we were upgraded to an imperial Suite and the attention of Paola made us change our mind. Paola and her staff were extremely nice and went out of their way to make us feel comfortable all the time. The food was excellent!!!
If I had to plan my trip again, i would probably have chosen to stay here a few days and then go to a hotel in the north area, which we visited and felt were more lively."
If I had to plan my trip again, i would probably have chosen to stay here a few days and then go to a hotel in the north area, which we visited and felt were more lively."
Good
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Rooms
Average
Food
Excellent
Not currently featured by Expert Africa
Jafferji House
"A big disappointment"
1 night
Arrived
9 Aug 2012
"A great disappointment!!! We were supposed to have been given the Livingstone Suite, but were given the Spice Room because they said the other room was not ready??? The room had a terrible odor, musty, humid. We could not sleep that night because of the odor, the terrible noise of the street and the hard pillows. I expressed my concerns and did not receive a good explanation other than they knew about the smell!!"
Poor
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Poor
Location
Average
Service
Poor
Rooms
Terrible
Food
Poor
Feedback response
Jafferji House were very sorry to hear this feedback. These travellers were given the Spice Room because it is actually a better room than the one that had been booked for them, and so it was meant to be offered as an upgrade. However it had recently been refurbished and the management believe that the plastering had not yet dried out properly, hence the smell. They are very sorry that it affected this travellers stay, when they had only intended to make the stay better. They also say that this issue has now been resolved. They have also addressed the issue with the pillows, by offering some softer ones to travellers when they first arrive at the hotel.
Unfortunately, noise in the street is not an uncommon complaint with many hotels based in the centre of Stone Town. This is a highly populated area with a large number of mosques that sound out the call to prayer at dawn hence nights here can be disruptive sometimes.
Unfortunately, noise in the street is not an uncommon complaint with many hotels based in the centre of Stone Town. This is a highly populated area with a large number of mosques that sound out the call to prayer at dawn hence nights here can be disruptive sometimes.
City Lodge OR Tambo
"City Lodge OR Tambo review"
1 night
Arrived
10 Aug 2012
"Same as previous comments"
Average