South Africa Tours and Trips for Seniors

Accommodations were excellent as was our tour guide and our drivers for the game drives. I love that Collette includes a meal with a local family as it gives you a real feeling for the country. During your free time the tour director gives you excellent ideas as to what you might want to do. I highly recommend Collette!

I just loved the different experiences. First I must say our tour guide Mr Dube was outstanding. He was very personable and made everyone feel inclusive, and he was very knowledgeable about all the places we went to… what tour guide would start clearing tables at one of the hotels that was not ready for us for our scheduled dinner..Dube jumped right in to help set up for us… I know he provided feedback to hotel manager.. all ended up great!!! The Safari game drives were my favorite all 7 of them in Chobe and Pilanisburg. Dube had a great relationship with the game drivers and was so knowledgeable himself. Again he made sure we were all comfortable. Also loved Victoria Falls, a spectacular place and so beautiful. Somerset West wine country was also awesome… too bad TSA confiscated my Simple Sugars I purchased but my fault for putting in my carry on, lesson learned. Again Dube knew all the staff and made our day special and made sure we enjoyed… Lunch at a second winery was also wonderful… CapeTown was so beautiful, just as friends who have gone said. Table Mountain Inclinator was spectacular, what a view… Boulder Cliff was also beautiful and entertaining, again Dube knew all about the penguins!!!! On our free day we went to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and glad we did as it was a beautiful place and we had a wonderful delicious lunch at Moyo and Fynkos Tea Room. The Farewell Dinner at Gold Restaurant was so much fun, playing the drums in unison with folks from all over the world and the authentic dinner we had was wonderful. I so enjoyed this trip and the memories will never leave. Re hotels each one was different in its own way and beautiful. Dube was also outstanding about getting us from country to country, though Customs, on buses , on planes, boats etc. my only complaint if I may was with British Air. They do not make it easy to get seats unless you want to pay extra and we already had upgraded to economy plus. The night before leaving I stayed up till midnight trying to select seats, only to have to place a call to find out site was down and we had no choice but to get seats at the airport and me and my husband could not sit together on any of the 4 flights…. Bummer. All in All we had a wonderful adventure, made new friends. Loved our group, we had a lot of laughs and fun. Looking forward to to our next adventure looking at Alaska cruise with Ford. We are attending a presentation by Fords at The Grand this coming week..

I loved the trip! My most memorable was when the male lion came out so close to us and just stared at us and really didn't care if we were there. I do want to say that it was a little tougher than I thought it would be as far as traveling and having to wake up so early 4 days in a row. I wish we had a little more time to relax. It was a lot of moving around and getting up so early. I understand that we needed to get out on safari early but maybe one day in between to rest. Also, the tipping drove me crazy! Maybe you could work that into the price because it was obnoxious to keep track of. The lodges and hotels were beautiful and very comfortable beds. Our tour manager was fabulous. He was very knowledgeable and always so calm. Very funny, too. The bus drivers were all very good and I always felt safe.

Leon our tour guide was exceptional in every way. He was knowledgeable, well spoken and very organized. He set a positive tone and our group really gelled. The scheduled tours were awesome and we saw so many animals. The 2 meals we shared with local families were very enjoyable.

If was our trip of a lifetime! Every day it got better. So glad we did Safaris and early mornings first leaving Capetown,wineries and a little downtime at the end. Perfect trip!!

Loved all the safaris! Didn’t like the food at The Cresta Mowana and the fact that we had to pay for all drinks, even water. Loved staying at The Wallow and the food was good. Loved staying at the Ivory Tree Game Lodge and the food was good. Our tour manager, Dube, was hard to understand and oftentimes he would speak on the bus with his back to us which us old people had a hard time understanding. He would confuse us by listing too many future events instead of just focusing on the things in the near future that day. Once we started getting written itinerary on WhatsApp, it was better. Still liked Dube.