Micato Safaris Google Reviews

BEST VACATION EVER! To anyone reading this review while pondering whether or not to go on a Micato safari, ponder no more. This is the safari you should go on; Micato will treat you like royalty. They meet you at the airport, get you through the Visa/Immigration line, carry your luggage and quite literally do anything and everything to ensure that you have the most memorable safari vacation of your life. My husband and I went on their Grand Safari through Kenya and Tanzania, late Oct thru early Nov 2025. The weather was perfect. Only one day had an hour or two of rain and that was when we were inside for lunch! Titus (aka Tito) was our guide throughout our safari and he was fantastic. Informative, so knowledgeable, helpful and kind. Just a great person. The drivers for each of game drives differs at each location, but all are Micato staff and equally as knowledgeable. And fun! Eve, our concierge for the entire trip, was always ready to handle whatever might come our way above and beyond expectations (more on that later, and this part of our story is incredible. Read on!). We started in Nairobi at stayed at the Hemingway hotel. Fabulous! My husband and I were celebrating our anniversary and the bed in our beautiful room was covered with rose petals. (On our actual anniversary, the whole kitchen staff serenaded us with song and dance! We were overcome with emotion!). Before beginning the actual safari, we visited the Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) home and the Giraffe Center before being treated to lunch. Even the meals are memorable! But the camps and lodges you will stay at on the game reserves are even more memorable. A “tent” is actually a very large luxurious room with all the amenities (especially the Bateleur Camp!) and often with views of giraffes, zebras, elephants and even visiting warthogs and/or baboons on your deck! We visited Amboseli, Laikipis Plateau, Maasai Mara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. You’ll take a 12-seat plane to these areas, and the planes often fly low enough to see multitudes of wildlife out the windows. So, what are the daily game drives like? Well…unbelievable! Most often you’ll do a morning drive and a later afternoon (“golden hour”) drive, sometimes broken up by a “picnic” lunch on the reserve. These picnics are not sandwiches and cookies, but grand BBQs by a team of local chefs and waitstaff. And actually, following our early morning hot air balloon ride over Maasai Mara, they arranged a beautiful, huge breakfast for us as we delighted in watching a giraffe family about 300 yards from us going about their day. Absolutely EVERYTHING is planned by Micato to ensure you have the trip of a lifetime. And we did! When asked by Tito and our driver prior to a game drive, “What do you want to see today?”, we’d answer with “lions” or “cheetahs” and - seriously - they’d look through their binoculars or get on the radio and within a half hour or less, we were snapping photos of lions/cheetahs. And often these animals were close enough to us that we didn’t need a telephoto/zoom lens. Honestly, we cannot praise Micato and the whole team enough. My husband and I also pondered taking a Micato safari - for 15 years! - and we are so happy we did! As a matter of fact, we plan to take another one. Yes, it’s more costly than others, but (and I don’t say this tritely), it is worth every penny. You will not regret it, we can promise you that! Now to how Micato goes above and beyond no matter what: our safari was over and we were driven to the airport to go home. As my husband lifted our bag onto the check-in scale, I stepped back and tripped over someone’s bag. I fell HARD. Broke both my wrists and displaced both radius bones. Tito and Eve rode in ambulance with us to ER and stayed 5 hours with us. While there, Eve rebooked our flights and got us a hotel for that night. Nice! They both brought us back to the airport the next night and have been kind enough to keep in touch w me throughout my recovery. We’re still in touch with them now. Incredible! Travel with Micato. TRIP OF A LIFETIME!