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User Reviews of Serengeti National Park (561 Reviews)

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4.9073 / 5 4.9 /5
4.9236 / 5 4.8302 / 5 4.6934 / 5 4.5165 / 5

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4 star 36 / 10 36
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Male avatar icon Karl Senn Ireland flag IE       Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Aug 28, 2024

Email Karl Senn  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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2 / 5 2 /5
5 / 5 2 / 5 2 / 5 1 / 5

Too many cars and dust, stress for the animals, large distances covered with high speed

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Male avatar icon Dragos Dumitrescu Romania flag RO       Visited: June 2023 Reviewed: Jul 5, 2023

Email Dragos Dumitrescu  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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2 / 5 2 /5
3 / 5 2 / 5 3 / 5 3 / 5

Too vast, bad roads, impossible to come close to animals

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Female avatar icon Sara Silvestri United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: February 2026 Reviewed: Apr 9, 2026

Email Sara Silvestri  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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3 / 5 3 /5
4 / 5 1 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5
The park is hugely overcrowded, safari vehicles are everywhere speeding at 50 miles an hour across the park, it is impossible to have any close sightings without going off the road and pay a bribe for it due to the noise from all the cars. The whole park is completely natural with no concrete roads which some people might consider positive but that also means that you will eat dirt all day due to the cars shooting across the park. Also you will barely do a drive a day cause you will be put together with people who booked a different tier than you so you will spend 2 hours a day driving around to drop on and off all the others cause everyone stays at different sites, often over an hour away from each other. I had chosen to stay at a resort and they put me in a place an hour away from the entrance so I only slept one night at the park and was mostly on the road to be dropped on and off. I have seen the campsites where the others were staying and the state of them was absolutely shameful.
Read more Charging foreign visitors $100 a day so shower in cold water in dirty shared facilities. Unbelievable.
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Male avatar icon Joost Netherlands flag NL       Visited: June 2024 Reviewed: Jun 21, 2024

Email Joost  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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3 / 5 3 /5
4 / 5 1 / 5 2 / 5 2 / 5
We stayed in Central Serengeti in June while the migration was also taking place in this area. Very impressive. We stayed there for 10 days and therefore also had days when the migration had already passed through the area. Those days it was not easy to spot the wild animals. Overall I expected to see more cheetahs, elephants and leopards. There is no shortage of lions, but here too we were always there with easily 70 other cars, all moving continuously to see the lions just a little better and tourists shouting at the animals. Not the relaxing and romantic safari that I am used to from private parks in, for example, Namibia or even the national parks in Zambia. The roads are dramatic even though you pay a large fee to enter the park and the rest camps are places where you really don't stop for fun.
I have the feeling that they can also make the roads much more 'romantic'. Sometimes you have a beautiful river, but you don't see anything because the road goes in
Read more the completely opposite direction. The Masai Mara does this much better.
Overall I also thought the guides were very poor. They pushed the animals too much and often locked them in.
Overall, I would rather spend my money on a safari in Zambia, Namibia or Kenya, for example.
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Female avatar icon Mirela Erbisti Brazil flag BR       Visited: January 2024 Reviewed: Feb 15, 2024

Email Mirela Erbisti  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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3 / 5 3 /5
3 / 5 0 / 5 3 / 5 0 / 5

I went to central Serengeti and didn’t know that animals were migrating to the south. It should be said when I booked my trip, then I could change destination.

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Female avatar icon Mette Denmark flag DK       Visited: January 2020 Reviewed: Jan 23, 2020

Email Mette  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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3 / 5 3 /5
2 / 5 3 / 5 4 / 5 3 / 5

Not many animals and bad roads. Beautiful nature though.

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Male avatar icon Xavier Switzerland flag CH       Visited: August 2016 Reviewed: Aug 27, 2016

Email Xavier  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Tanzania Northern Circuit - Too crowded

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Hi Folks,

Just a quick one to let you know about my experience in Serengeti and Ngorongoro.

We had an amazing well organized safari with Serene Tours Tanzania, in fact this is the second one I did with them. The first one was back in January in the South of Tanzania. But for the North of Tanzania I am a bit disappointed, it was way too crowded and spent quite some times at gates of the parks.

My advice to you guys, do not do the same mistake as I did. Start with the North of Tanzania first, do not do the safari in August as it is peak season and then only do the South of Tanzania. Doing so you will have a different feel of your safaris and will not remain and a mixed feeling.

This been said, Tanzania is well worth it but, you need to be careful when you choosing the itineraries as well as the time of the year you will visit!

Enjoy Tanzania,

Xavier

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Male avatar icon Pierre Andre Plotkins Canada flag CA       Visited: March 2026 Reviewed: Mar 23, 2026

Email Pierre Andre Plotkins  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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Endless grasslands, stretching to the horizons, provided the stage for the great migration of wilderbeast and zebra ! Due to wet season abundance, there were great exspances of flowers carpeting the ground. Close encounters with wild life were common. Generally, animals were undisturbed by the presence of land cruisers. Some prey animals were more skittish than others. Sightings of the very cute individual tiny Dikdik quite near, were pleasant.

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Male avatar icon Paul Costa Rica flag CR       Visited: November 2025 Reviewed: Dec 7, 2025

Email Paul  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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The rains had not started and everything was the same brown color and there was very little wildlife

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Male avatar icon Laurent Leard France flag FR       Visited: September 2025 Reviewed: Nov 9, 2025

Email Laurent Leard  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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I believe the the end of dry season is not optimum. Nevertheless, this Park is a must IMO.

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