The Wayfairer team training in our UK office
Wayfairer Travel
- Offices In:
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United KingdomUnited States
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2012)
- Member Of:
- ATTA, ATOL & ABTOT
- Tour Types:
- Custom luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $12,986 to $45,000 per person per day (MXN, excl. int'l flights)
for a custom tour
Your request will be sent directly to the operator
If preferred, you can contact the operator directly
Reviews
Email Ryota | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent and very personal service!
It was an amazing experience traveling to Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Everything was very well organized by Wayfairer travel from when we started planning our trip in Aug. 2023 till the end of our adventure.
The service was very professional and personal.
Special thanks to Amelia and Ruth, who did an outstanding job in meeting our requests including destinations and type of experiences.
I will highly recommend Wayfairer travel to anybody who is planning a safari vacation in Botswana.
CA
Email Darilyn | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Absolutely wonderful Kenyan Safari
Just returned from our first ever safari and I can’t say enough about how Wayfairer made our dreams a reality!
Planning was smooth, thanks to Maggie’s quick response to any inquiries that I had. She came up with a great itinerary and listened to what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go.
Communication was excellent even with there being a 6 hour time difference. Emails were answered promptly.
We received a very thorough outline of our holiday a month prior to our departure date. This was an excellent resource to prepare for our trip as well as to give us the day to day itinerary while on holiday.
Our two safari locations were excellent and diverse enough to keep us engaged for the length of our stay at each (3 nights)
We ended our holiday with a stay on the beach and were captivated by the beauty the Indian Ocean provides!
As we had never been to Africa before we didn’t know what to expect to pay, but we feel that it was good value for what we paid. We were well taken care of and had private transfers to and from the airport, as well as a private transfer to our first safari location. We had access to Wayfairer throughout our holiday and they were quick to respond and help out when we had a small issue.
All in all, an excellent holiday and we would gladly recommend Wayfairer to anyone looking to book a safari.
FR
Email Evelyne | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The team organised a memorable experience for us and supported us with every step of the process.
The team has been fabulous at suggesting a great itinerary for our family, booking exceptional accomodation solutions and friendly and efficient internal transport. They were also very responsive when we experienced visa issues and offered solutions and support. The trip was an amazing experience!
Pretty flawless organisation of our trip. Fantastic knowledge and learning experience of wildlife
Wayfairer did a thorough job in meeting our objectives for the trip. Good planning and comms throughout with knowledgeable team members. No hiccups in the execution with all the transfers lined up properly. They use a good operator on the ground in Botswana. One improvement would be a strong recommendation to guests to bring enough cash for tips for the game lodge staff which is expected. This may have been embedded somewhere but it was not obvious enough.
Email Yvonne | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
They did it all - and then some!!
I started looking at luxury safari options when I came across Wayfairer's vacation trip. It sounded wonderful. I just had to see Victoria Falls, so Rhian modified the itinerary to include that at the beginning. Then our companion traveler wanted to go to Cape Town and dive with the Great Whites, so Rhian added that at the end, along with a visit to Cape Point and to see the South African penguins (so cute!!). I also found a safari at a Game Reserve next to Kruger National Park. I loved the information about the company, the conservation efforts, the community support, and the great reviews from former travelers. So Rhian had to figure out how to add that to our trip as well. I wish we could have just extended out visit for at least another week, but our companion traveler was restricted to two weeks of vacation, so we just spent less time at each camp/lodge. It was perfect!!
As time got closer, Dahlia picked up our trip and helped us navigate all the last minute details, visas, and transportation information.
The day comes for us to leave, and Newark airport just totally messed with our plans. Our plane into Newark was delayed because of, well Newark always has an excuse, but we would have missed our plane going to Johannesburg by four hours. We started calling the company that booked our international flights to see if we could get to Africa the following day. Unfortunately, our airline didn't have another option until two full days later! There goes Victoria Falls!! They finally found an option that took us to Frankfurt, Germany, with a 12 hour layover, then on to Johannesburg, arriving in time to quickly get on a flight to Victoria Falls and salvage most of the things we would have missed there - just one day late.
Dahlia was able to get the team from Singapore working on changing hotel arrangements, flights to Victoria Falls, transportation to our hotel, rebooked our helicopter tour, and the transportation associated with that, and voila! We're back on schedule! That was an absolute miracle!! The remainder of the trip went as planned, I recovered from two consecutive overnight flights, and my stress level went back to normal.
The locations that Rhian selected for our lodging were exceptional (we did find that one, a true "tent camp" was a bit more rustic than we could easily navigate - no paved walkways meant walking to the main building was precarious for senior travels and we suggested that older travelers should be warned and decide if they are up for the challenge). The Ilala Hotel in Victoria Falls is beautiful, and the closest lodging to the falls so you could see the spray in the air from the decks. Chobe Game Lodge has everything you could want, and their safari guides are an all woman team that has earned Botswana's certification for safari guides. Great safari drives, wonderful information, and the fantastic team of staff! My absolute favorite lodge was Dulini River Lodge at Sabi Sands in South Africa. It is a private reserve, which allows them to follow tracks into the bush to locate the animals. It is located adjacent to Kruger National Park, with no fencing to separate the animals, so animal activity abounds! Every drive meant seeing all the animals every time. They have a five star chef that caters to your dietary restrictions or just your whims, your butler makes sure your favorite beverage is always available - at lunch, dinner, in your mini refridgerator, and the cooler for the sunset cocktails in the bush. The staff is so helpful and attentive to detail. We had a traveler that needed wheelchair assistance back and forth to the room, since it was a bit hilly and farther than was reasonable early in the morning and late at night - one of the staff (Jambo) was always there to help us out. He was so concerned for our safety and comfort. Our tracker, Tyron, was a super sleuth at finding those animals, and our guide, Wayne, was like an encyclopedia about the animals, the environment, and the activities that help protect it all. We never doubted him when a bull elephant walked right up to the side of the vehicle to check us out. Wayne said, "Trust me," and we did. What an experience!!
So Wayfairer (Rhian) planned the perfect trip, with the best accomodations and safari locations, while Dahlia kept us on track and frequently reached out to make sure everything was still going well.
The travel package is not inexpensive, but the trip was so much more than we could have wished for. It was worth it all and more!
SG
Email Tan | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great travel planning and Excellent concierge
An unforgettable 11 day adventure in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The travel itinerary, activities and flight bookings were well planned, with good attention to detail and timing. Peach’s prompt and reassuring follow-up before, during, and after our holiday made us feel well taken care of. Tours and Transfer services by local agents were smooth and of high quality throughout the trip. Everything was well coordinated, which made our trip relaxing and enjoyable.
Email Tom | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Faultless from start to finish.
Wayfairer made our Kenyan honeymoon perfect. The hotels they found for us were incredible and the safari camp in Ol Pejeta was idillic. From booking through to being away the team were always available for any questions we had and for any issues we had while away. They made the trip completely stress free for us! We would thoroughly recommend them.
CA
Email Chris | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Helpful with great partners on the ground
We travelled on safari in August 2025 and had a very positive experience overall. Aggie and Ellie were a great team getting us prepared for our safari adventure in Uganda. The planning was thoughtful and responsive, and the safari delivered truly memorable wildlife encounters, excellent guiding, and experiences we will treasure forever. Wild Frontier, Wayfairer's partner guiding company in Uganda was exceptional. Our guide kept us safe, he was professional and super knowledgeable and went out of his way to accommodate our needs.
While the trip was very well organized, we had concerns from the begining about a 4 hour hike to our lodge the day before the gorilla trek which we knew would be challenging and we did not in any way want to jeopardize the trek. With Wayfairer's guidance, we dedided to go with it and then changed our minds the day before. Our guide worked diligently with his team to organize a driver instead which turned out to be a wonderful solution. The drive was in part on VERY rough roads but the scenery through the mountains was absolutely spectacular!
Overall, this was a truly rewarding and well-planned safari, and we were really satisfied with the accommodations and the support provided.
Email Mark | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very well organised safari, great concierge services, I would highly recommend Wayfairer
Ellie, Lorna, Aggi and fellow colleagues from Wayfairer did an outstanding job advising and organising our 10day safari to Kenya. Having never been to Africa let alone on safari, we were keen to get a company advising us, my wife has dietary requirements hence needed to make sure that GF food was available as well as that the hotels/camps knew how to cater for Coeliacs. And all advise and subsequent steer where to go turned out to be beyond our wildest dreams. We had a beautiful tented camp in Loisaba and a well managed tented stay in the Masia Mara. I didn’t needed to think about anything everything was organised upfront and we as a family had just to go along with the ride. The food was excellent! Our game drives were brilliant and in the first two days we had seen the big 5 already. What an experience, really good. Thank you for Wayfarer for taking care of us, not only with a beautiful itinerary and our own brochure, but also be there on whattap if we had any questions. A great safari al round and I wild go with Wayfairer again.
CH
Email Steve | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Delivers custom solutions which always exceed expectations!
Working with Ettienne to develop my itinerary was amazing. He listened and every step of my journey in Namibia was outstanding. Lodges were exceptional and travel plans worked to perfection. Many thanks also to Dalia, who made sure I had everything I needed, so I could only focus on enjoying the experience of a lifetime. I wanted to focus on Northern Namibia (Serra Cafema, Hoanib Skeleton Coast and Desert Rhino Camp) and Wayfairer's suggestions were perfect. I will definitely go back and visit some places again. The suggestion of a stay in Okonjima African Villa was a highlight of the trip. Great Leopard sightings and an amazing lodge!
Many thanks to the entire team.
