6-Day Budget Lodge Safari in Tanzania

We booked the 6 days safari with simba adventures as the start of our honeymoon in Tansania. The booking process was excellent and could be handled over WhatsApp. All of our questions were answers and we were given several options regarding accommodations and routes to choose from. We picked a mix out of lodge and tented accommodations over the six days to visit tarangire, lake manyara, serengeti and ngorongoro national park. Apart from the safari itself Simba Adventures organised the transfer from and to the airport as well as a hotel to stay one night in Arusha before our flight to Sansibar. We were able to contact the mainoffice the whole time and always got a quick answer. As for the safari itself: The experience was simply mindblowing. No picture or documentary comes close to the landscapes, animals and different vegetations we saw along the way. Our Guide Charles was amazing. He has plenty of experience, knows were the animals are and told us a lot about the Parks, Animals and Tanzanian culture. The Accommodations were great and always very well handled with good food and friendly, helpful staff. All in all we were very happy to book with Simba Adventures and will come back to Tanzania some day.

I am more than satisfied with our 5 day safari tour in Tarangire, Serengeti, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro with Simba Adventures. Everything was perfectly organised, the lodges very confortable and the staff very kind. We could enjoy incredible landscapes and could see so many animals from a very short distance. Everything was even better than expected. The best part of our experience was undoubtfully meeting our master driver guide ISAYA. He was really experienced and decisive, a person you can trust. Always smiling and willing to make us feel comfortable. He spoke good Spanish and English to solve all our doubts about wildlife and his culture. Asante ISAYA for this experience.

Incredible! We just got back to Arusha after a 6 day safari with Simba Adventures and it has been one of the best experiences of my life. I totally recommed this company, Ally is a great person and he has been very helpful since we arrived. Our guide Malisa and our cook Dennis did an amazing job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 really happy for our choice 🙂 Thanks Ally!

My partner and I did a 6 day safari to Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Manyana and loved every minute. We chose Simba to ensure we were using a local Tanzanian company with all money staying with locals - and we didn’t regret our decision. The owner / manager Ally was quick to respond to our emails, professional and accommodating of our requests. Our guide Sadi was wonderful - a patient and considerate man who appeared to appreciate the wildlife as much as us - and a good driver who took us at the pace we wanted, stopping hundreds of times to let us take photos or just sit in the peacefulness and watch the animals. A lot of safari trucks seem to zoom along at great speed - not really stopping properly to appreciate the animals - though that may be at guest requests. We stayed at great clean safe lodges and tented lodges with wonderful staff and saw every animal we hoped to apart from cheetahs. We were so lucky to see a leopard, lots of lions and loads of other animals at close quarters. Plus around 67 different birds. I can’t recommend Simba Adventures highly enough and would definitely use them again. I really recommend anyone looking to do a safari to use a fully-owned Tanzanian company so that your money benefits locals rather than going to large international tour companies.

We recently came back from Tanzania where we were volunteering and we went on a 6 day budget lodge safari during the last week of our vocation. We met Ally Simba sometime back and he agreed to organize a safari that was within our budget. Having being in Tanzania for the last 3 months I had a rough idea about costs and I was quite happy with deal we got from Simba Adventures We had a very beautiful experience touring the different parks starting with Tarangire where we spent a day exploring the park encountering elephants, wildhogs, zebras, waterbuck, giraffes, antelopes and a pack of wilddogs. Our next stop took us to Lake Manyara where we did the board walkway giving us a panoramic view of the park. Of great interest was seeing lions perched on trees. I didn't know that they did that. We then went to Serengeti and spent 2 amazing days in different parks. We even managed to catch-up with the huge herd of wildebeest that was being followed by lions and cheetahs. We finished our safari in Ngorongoro crater and this was absolutely amazing place where we even saw 2 rhinos! We had a great time in Tanzania. A big thank you to Ally Simba and your team for making this happen. I recommend Simba Adventures!

We talked to many operators offering budget safaris in Tanzania but none of them came close to the offering by Simba Adventures. Some had hidden charges in their quotes, while others had some serious complaints indicated in their reviews. After a series of reviews we took the 6 day budget lodge safari where Mr. Simba negotiated for very good rates (we tried contacting the lodges directly and they had a higher price) because we did not want to do camping in the rainy season, The quality of the game drives in Tarangier, Ngorongoro and Serengeti was excellent. We had a qualified and experienced guide Emmanuel who ensured that we saw all the animals we had hoped for. His knowledge of birds is fantastic too which was a huge plus as I am a birding enthusiast. The vehicle was almost new and did not breakdown or get stuck in the muddy pools in some of the dirt roads. We recommend this company to all going on safari.

My family of 5 had a perfect vacation in Tanzania conducted by Simba Adventures. The booking process was easy because Simba the owner allowed us to select the places we wanted to visit. Payment was done securely with Paypal. Our guide Isaac was knowledgeable, patient and easy going. The number of the animals we saw everyday in the parks wowed all of us and we got very nice shots. Our lodges were luxury class yet we paid a bargain fee because Simba organized an offer where my young children paid half price. Simba is a honest man and runs a professional company with experienced guides like Isaac. We recommend him and ask for Isaac to be your guide.

We were looking for a budget package to Northern Tanzania parks and we really found a great company that made us feel like royalty despite being on a budget package. I could hardly believe the level of comfort in our accoms at Planet Lodge Arusha, Lake Burunge in Tarangire, Country Lodge in Karatu and Thorn tree in the Serengeti. They were really sort of luxury serving excellent dishes, sumptuous breakfast and even had provisions for my sister who is a lacto-vegetarian. We had so much fun on safari with our driver cum guide Joseph who made the whole tour so amazing. there was alway something interesting everywhere we turned, including negotiating for us to take pics with some young Masai men with painted faces that were on the roadside. We got the opportunity to experience wild animals in their natural setting including an interesting scene where a cheetah with cubs chased and killed antelope only to loose it to marauding hyenas. The views in Ngorongoro into the crater and the plains of serengeti full of wildebeest were out of this world. We had a blast for a bargain and I am happy to recommend Simba Adventures