About
Who we are, and how we are paid
Both worth knowing before you take planning advice from anyone, including Private Safari Kenya.
What this site is
Private Safari Kenya exists to separate three things people conflate — a private vehicle, a private guide and exclusive use — and to say plainly which is worth paying for. Its main argument is that private is not a luxury tier: a private vehicle is available well below the top end and changes a day more than a better tent does.
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.
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 Kenya guides, each going deeper on one subject than a single site could. This one is Private Safari Kenya: Your own vehicle, guide and schedule. These are the ones that sit closest to it:
- Kenya Safari Planner — The full planning hub: parks, seasons, itineraries, costs and how to put a Kenya trip together.
- Masai Mara Luxury — The Mara at the top end: private conservancies, guided suites and exclusive-use houses.
- Kenya Family Safari — Safaris that work with children: age limits, family rooms, drive times and pacing.
- Masai Mara Camps — How the Mara’s camps and conservancies differ, and which one suits how you want to travel.
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 Kenya guides
Our other Kenya guides
Each of these is a focused guide we publish. Same Kenya 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 Kenya specialist comes back within 24 hours with a plan built around them and a costed quote.