About
Who we are, and how we are paid
Both worth knowing before you take planning advice from anyone, including Luxury Safari Planner.
What this site is
Luxury Safari Planner exists to answer one question that the top of the safari market is not keen to answer plainly: what does the extra money actually buy? Our answer is land, vehicles, guides and aircraft — not the room — and everything we publish follows from it.
We are not a safari operator. We do not own camps and we do not drive the vehicles.
Who arranges the safaris
When you send an enquiry it goes to Nomad Africa, our partner travel agency in Kenya. They build your itinerary, price it, hold the bookings, take the payments and look after you on the ground from the airport pickup to the flight home.
They plan and operate directly in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana and Zanzibar, which is the whole of what we publish guides to. Where we do not have that depth, we say so rather than taking the enquiry.
It is one partnership, not a marketplace. We do not put your enquiry out to a panel of operators and we do not pass your details to anyone else.
How we are paid
If you book a trip through an enquiry that started here, Nomad Africa pays us a commission. You pay no more than you would going to them directly — camps hold rate parity, so the commission comes out of the agency’s margin, not your price.
That is the whole commercial model. We think you should know it before you read anything else on the site.
The rules we write to
- No invented reviews. If you see a testimonial here, a real person wrote it and gave us permission to publish it with their name.
- No invented statistics or credentials. We do not claim licences, memberships, awards or numbers we cannot document.
- No promises about animals. Nobody can guarantee a river crossing or a leopard, and any site that implies otherwise is selling.
- Ranges, not fake precision. Where we publish costs they are clearly marked as indicative planning ranges. Your quote is the exact number.
- We say when something will not work. If your budget does not reach what you are picturing, or your dates are wrong for what you want to see, that goes in the first reply.
Part of a network
We publish a family of specialist Africa guides, each going deeper on one subject than a single site could. This one is Luxury Safari Planner: Above the line, you stop buying comfort and start buying access. These are the ones that sit closest to it:
- Safari Collection Africa — The luxury camps and houses across Africa, arranged by country and by region.
- The Bespoke Safari — What bespoke actually means in safari planning — and, more usefully, what it does not.
- Honeymoon Safari Planner — Planning a safari honeymoon end to end: where, when, how long, and what it costs.
- Private Safari Collection — Exclusive-use houses, whole-camp buyouts and private mobile camps — and when they are worth it.
They share this partnership and this editorial standard, and they link to each other wherever a question genuinely belongs on one of the others rather than here.
More from our Africa guides
Our other Africa guides
Each of these is a focused guide we publish. Same Africa specialist behind every enquiry.
Ready to turn this into a real itinerary?
Send us your dates, who is travelling and roughly what you want to spend per person per night. Our Africa specialist comes back within 24 hours with a plan built around them and a costed quote.