Naturetrek Traveller Reviews

Excellent holiday, great hotels, food and company. Really good guides and an impressive area to visit.

Excellent firm with a huge number of wildlife trips

It was a privilege to be lead by an enthusiastic first rate botanist and naturalist who knew the environment intimately. He worked hard to give us a good social and intelectual experience.

Friendly , knowledgeable and very efficient .

Wonderful experience swimming with whalesharks, regular snorkelling, bird watching, seeing dragons.

Everything ran extremely smoothly. We were well looked after from start to finish, with nothing to worry about.

A week-long safari,, staying in a luxury camp. Extremely well organised, brilliant rangers and wonderful staff at Chikunto Safari Lodge. The holiday more than lived up to our expectations.

We have travelled with NATURETREK several times now, and all our trips with them have surpassed our expectations. They are an efficient company with excellent and knowledgeable leaders.

A week in Greece birdwatching from 3 hotels with a nature specialist company - Naturetrek.

Naturetrek provide a huge variety of nature based holidays. Guides are of an excellent standard. Now also feature a small vegan / vegetarian portfolio. Always make you feel looked after.

Organised trip bird watching and walking. Stayed in a farmhouse/hotel close to the airport. Visited lots of bird watching sites and a historic site. Well organised and led.

Good information pre-booking and post-booking. Well organised

Perfectly met my interests as an avid mammalwatcher/lister. Saw 35 iconic African mammals - not just the large animals, but equally the small things - banded and dwarf mongoose, warthogs, jackals and hyaena. Many repeatedly and in great views for photography and just sitting in the moment, as well as numerous colourful birds and fascinating reptiles. Our tour leaders were magnificent guides - the epitome of professionalism, courtesy, friendliness, experience, knowledge and patience throughout the tour, catering for individual's needs and interests while keeping the group cohesive, engaged and enthusiastic. They drove the safari vehicles skillfully (especially when towing the trailer between rest camps) tracking by roadside signs and studying the landscape for animals but ever wary for traffic and time constraints, maneuvering into the best available positions giving us repeatedly close views without compromising the animals' welfare or our safety. Their love of the land and wildlife of South Africa was inspiring. I cannot praise them highly enough and would eagerly sign up for another tour with them.

From the initial general enquiry regarding their brochure through to the final trip joining instructions, the level of customer service impressed me greatly. The availability of online 'virtual roadshows' introduced during the COVID years and continued since were of great use to me as an overseas client in visualising the trip, the animals, the accommodation, the climate and the food choices. The website's inclusion of detailed previous trip reports and species lists made my decision making between trips on offer particularly confident; although nothing can be guaranteed with wildlife watching, repeated sightings of key species and the variety of species seen regularly certainly boded well, nor was I disappointed with our results. Pre-Departure information was excellent, comprehensive and useful. Naturetrek staff also provided prompt replies to all my questions and excellent attention to detail and communication

An amazing experience, saw everything we could possibly have wished to. A never to be forgotten trip.

Have travelled numerous times with Nature trek and have always found them efficient and reliable. We always go first to them for holiday ideas and have never been disappointed.

Naturetrek Brochure: Excellent Naturetrek Website: Good Pre Departure Information: Excellent Service from Naturetrek Office: Excellent {Flights Used:caption}: {Flights Used:value} {Flights Used Description:value} Accommodation: Excellent General Content & Interest: Excellent Itinerary: Excellent The extremely hot weather prevented us from taking walking safaris. Trip Leader(s): Excellent Overall Satisfaction: Excellent In the top 2 best safaris we've been on. Incredible variety of birds & mammals seen. Do you think the holiday was good value for money?: Yes. (Before we went we thought it was expensive but highly satisfied by the end of the holiday). I'd like to mention the staff at the lodge as they were incredibly helpful, polite, engaging & nothing was too much trouble - being assisted by staff to & from the chalet/tents was also reassuring Did you feel that there were any areas which require attention on this holiday, or are in need of improvement?: Not much Naturetrek can do about the travelling but we spent 2 days travelling both at the beginning & the end of the holiday due to lack of direct flights. We returned home thinking we'd had an amazing time. Please tell us what your holiday highlight was, or what you enjoyed about it most:: Nice surprise having the surprise sundowner next to the river the penultimate night when we thought we were going to miss out the sundowners & have an early night. Seeing a leopard up a tree & on another occasion, leopard cubs. Would you travel with Naturetrek again?: Yes

The brochure was excellent & informative. The website was good & the departure information excellent as was the pre departure information. When we were informed that the accommodation was chalet/tents we travelled expecting some basic comforts & possibly some infestation or unwanted guests but the chalet was wonderful & absolutely spotlessly clean. All the basic needs with 2 washbasins a walk in shower & separate WC. All of which were high quality. The room was cleaned & serviced everyday after we'd gone out & we returned after a morning & evening's travelling searching for wildlife to a comfortable, spotlessly clean accommodation. The fact it was described as a "tent" doesn't do it justice. We were amongst nature & other wildlife but were escorted mornings & at night by wonderful, smiling, friendly local staff who couldn't do enough to ensure we were safe & happy. All the staff were very nice, helpful, accommodating & happy. The tour guides helpful , informative & knowledgeable.

A birdwatching holiday on these beautiful islands, with daily excursions and boat trips to explore the hills and valleys and bays with turquoise waters and idyllic beaches.

Naturetrek were very helpful and reliable. We had to make adjustments to our travel arrangements because of the weather and they sorted everything out for us.