Why Choose a Luxury Safari with ETA

For six decades we’ve been refining our craft, driven to overdeliver. The result? An almost impossibly all-inclusive safari, as this list tries to show.  Here are just the beginnings of The ETA Difference:

What Makes ETA Different?

• Travel+Leisure has named ETA the World’s Best Safari Outfitter an unprecedented ten times. No other company comes close. We were also named Travel+Leisure World’s Best Value on every poll ever taken and we’re the only tour operator in Travel+Leisure’s Hall of Fame. You can read more about that here.

• Itineraries perfected by our large in-country staff’s generations of experience and local knowledge.
• Extensive safety protocols perfected by 25 years of on-the-ground expertise.
• Luxurious camps and lodges – obsessively, continually evaluated on the ground by our Safari Directors.
• Since we don’t own or operate the lodges and camps we frequent we’re able to put our guests’ interests first, not our company’s.
• Only ETA includes a highly-credentialed, Silver or Gold-level Safari Director on every safari in East and Southern Africa — in addition to a well-versed Driver Guide. Two dynamic, exuberant experts instead of the solitary driver most companies provide.
• Only ETA offers a wonder-working Concierge Team on safari, available in person or phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from just about anywhere a ETA safari will take you, from deep in the bush to downtown Nairobi. They’re poised to meet last-minute, unexpected, and unusual requests. Forgot a prescription? Lost your reading glasses? Craving your favourite snack? Just pick up the phone.
• No tipping. Ever. No exceptions. Years ago ETA established the groundbreaking industry policy of including all gratuities, even substantial ones to Safari Directors, Driver-Guides, Trackers and Rangers, in addition to our usual inclusions of waiters, porters… and everyone else, from beginning to end of your luxury safari. We’ve completely removed the anxiety about when to reach into your pocket for a gratuity, as well as figuring out how much.
• All meals included, too. Moreover, you may decide on-the-spot to dine at a restaurant of your choice on a ETA Custom Safari and we’ll happily pick up the tab. Africa has astonishing culinary choices and there are virtually no limits to where and how often you can indulge. And no worries about making reservations or finding hot spots before you travel; we’ve got that covered; perhaps one reason SAVEUR magazine named ETA Safaris Best Culinary Tour Operator.
• Drinks are on us during mealtimes. East and South Africa have an evolving selection of regional wines and craft beer, so we’re delighted to include wine and beer as well as bottled water, and soft drinks. And in Southern Africa we often pick up the tab for spirits, too.
• Valet laundry service included everywhere, every day. You can pack less and even return home with a bag of clean clothes… now that’s luxury.
• Our small-group, non-groupy boutique luxury safaris rarely number more than 12 guests and can be as small as two. That means more personalized attention from your ETA Safari Directors and Driver-Guides at every turn.