Terrible experience with them, and they still owe us money
#1 BURIGI CHATO SAFARIS CO LTD- Tanzania Safari | Serengeti Migration Safari | Kilimanjaro Operators的点评
点评:What started out pretty well, turned out to be pretty terrible experience for us. We booked a 7 day Kilimanjaro trek with them for two of us, and after the trek we have also booked an additional 2 day safari in Tarangire and Ngorongoro. However, we cannot really recommend to anyone this agency, based on our experience.
- we booked a "group" joining 7 day Machame route for Kili ascent. What they did not tell us was that the group was only just the two of us, so we had to pay all the tips for the porters ourselves (1000 USD extra, normally if you are part of a group it is more like 250-300 USD per person)
- for the Safari, we booked it last minute with them, and we specifically asked if we would be in the Ngorongoro crater early morning (6am-9am), because that is when the lions typically are hunting. We were assured that we would be, but in the end we only arrived there ~11am, and unsurprisingly, the lions were all pretty much hiding.
- the worst part, on the last day of our trip, the agency was supposed to organize the transfer for us back to the airport (it is included in the Kilimanjaro trek price). However, they completely ghosted us. We tried calling them 10 times that day, and they did not reply. After all the stress, we had to book and pay the transfer ourselves (80 USD). The agency still has not paid us back our money, even after we have requested it from them!!!!
翻译:原本一切都很顺利,结果却变成了一场糟糕的经历。我们通过这家旅行社预订了为期7天的乞力马扎罗山徒步之旅,我们两人同行。徒步结束后,我们又预订了在塔兰吉雷和恩戈罗恩戈罗火山口的2天野生动物园之旅。然而,根据我们的亲身经历,我们实在无法向任何人推荐这家旅行社。
- 我们预订了一个“团队”,走的是7天的马查梅路线攀登乞力马扎罗山。但他们没有告诉我们的是,这个“团队”实际上只有我们两个人,所以我们不得不自己支付所有搬运工的小费(额外支付了1000美元,通常情况下,如果是团队旅行,每人只需支付250-300美元)。
- 至于野生动物园之旅,我们是临时预订的,并且特意询问过是否能在清晨(早上6点到9点)进入恩戈罗恩戈罗火山口,因为狮子通常在那个时间段捕猎。我们之前被告知一定能看到狮子,但最终我们直到上午11点左右才到达,不出所料,狮子们几乎都躲了起来。
——最糟糕的是,在我们行程的最后一天,旅行社本应安排我们返回机场的接送服务(这项服务包含在乞力马扎罗山徒步旅行的费用中)。然而,他们却完全失联了。那天我们打了10次电话,他们都没有接听。经历了这一切之后,我们不得不自己预订并支付了接送服务(80美元)。即使我们已经向旅行社提出退款要求,他们至今仍未退还我们的钱!