Luxury Tanzania Family Trip Review: Serengeti, Tarangire National Park, Safari, Culture, Mara River Crossing, Lion Cubs Feeding

We are back and now have survived two days back at work! A sharp (and unfortunate!) contrast to our last two weeks.
And, those two weeks are truly memorable. Long and short of it is that the ENTIRE trip went without one hiccup and the experience will be held as a family favourite with many, many special moments sprinkled throughout.
Our travel company had thought about and organized everything, thereby creating a very stress free trip for the whole family. Thank you!
The properties were all outstanding, truly exceeded all of our expectations. The staff, the rooms, the food were all beyond wonderful. The hospitality overall was super friendly, warm and always demonstrating going above and beyond.
And, above all else, our guide was a gem on all counts. He is a man of many skills - car fixing, navigating, birding, wildlife spotting (in an almost inhuman way - how does it do it?!?), kahawa making, knowledge of the culture/region/animals. You name it, he can do it. He answered ALL of our questions, put up with our bad jokes, catered to our kids to ensure they felt included, had tremendous energy at all times of the day regardless of what time he was up in the morning, was fun and warm, but always professional. You have an incredible person on your team who truly made our trip (with a few lions and hippos thrown in there, too).
He taught me about the benefits of patience (e.g., waiting for a crossing, I would have long given up, but he waited quietly, sometimes for literally hours - and, yes, then it happened - and well worth the wait). If I could only have a fraction of his patience, I would be a better person!
We all miss our guide and I hope we can stay in touch.
I shared with our guide that I believe the travel company understated your offering. You and your tailored itinerary really did make a difference and I believe makes this travel team stand out from its competitors. For example:

• your choice of traveling from North to Central/Eastern Serengeti, then over to Tarangire - makes so much sense!
• your general avoidance of Central Serengeti (where the vehicles are lined up, sometimes 30 at a time). I loved the fact that our guide took us to rock outcroppings early in the morning and we would be the only people for miles and miles around.