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All our safaris to date have been through specialist agents, but I’m looking at Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha plus Diani Beach and it does seem reasonably DIY. The higher-end lodges don’t appear to go through OTAs but most publish rates. However I don’t know if the safari specialists get better rates.
From my experience it’s the lodges/camps that do all the local organising work in terms of the transfers and safaris, so it’d just be a question of any Safarilink flights and booking with the lodge directly.
Unless I am underestimating the value add of a safari travel agent.
That (plus Treetops) was the safari I took to Kenya in 1988. Feeling distinctly old.
Have you put those higher end lodges into Trivago incase an obscure OTA covers them? Also, I seem to recall the two places we stayed were under some kind of joint ownership/management, so is that another option?
Of course if you use a local agent then even if you are paying a bit over the odds, you have a local contact and you’re hopefully directing money into the local economy.
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