Tanzania Safari Cost: Real 2026 Prices & Line-Item Breakdown

By Emmanuel Mtui — Lead guide (12 years Serengeti) · with Matthew Charles, Founder, Savunda · Last updated 2026-05-27

KAPN member · TATO licensed operator · TTLB #__ · Arusha, Tanzania · Delaware LLC (Savunda LLC)

We've sent guests on more than 200 safaris since 2024 and our last 12 quotes for the 7-day classic northern circuit averaged USD 4,580 per person at mid-tier. Below we publish every line item we use internally — park fees from the live TANAPA fee schedule, vehicle and guide day-rates, accommodation by named property, internal flights by route, VAT, and the concession fees that most quotes hide. We link each figure to its source, we show what a redacted real quote looks like, and we put the same numbers into our cost calculator so you can run your own scenario.

This is the pillar page for our entire Tanzania safari cost cluster. Every spoke — park-fees breakdown, prices per day, hidden fees, internal flights, tipping — links back here, and every safari quote we send our guests is built from the math below.

How much does a Tanzania safari cost? (the short answer)

The honest Tanzania safari cost in 2026 sits in four bands. Budget runs $350-$500 per person per day on a shared vehicle with mobile camping; mid-range runs $500-$800 with a private 4×4 and permanent tented camps; luxury runs $800-$1,200 in named premium camps with full board; ultra-luxury starts at $1,200 per person per day and tops out near $3,500 at the Singita and Crater Lodge tier.

A 7-day private mid-tier safari for two adults lands at USD 7,000-9,800 total including all park fees, vehicle, guide, lodging, and meals on safari — but excluding international flights, visas, tips, drinks, and travel insurance. Across our last 12 such trips the average was $9,160 for the couple, or $4,580 per person.

If a quote sits below the budget range, the operator is skimming on park fees, sharing your vehicle with more guests than is comfortable, or downgrading the camps below the named tier. If a quote sits dramatically above the luxury range, the operator is either using genuine ultra-luxury camps (Singita, Asilia's premium tier, Nomad's flagship properties) or charging a brand-name premium. The honest middle is where most good trips live — and where every operator with KAPN and TATO licensing has to compete, because the underlying cost structure (park fees, vehicle, guide, camp) is the same for all of us.

If you want to skip ahead: jump to the line-item breakdown, the tier-by-tier per-day pricing, the 7/10/14-day sample budgets, or the hidden-fee gotchas. Or run the numbers in our cost calculator for your exact dates and party size.

Tanzania safari cost breakdown — every line item

This is the part that no aggregator publishes. We do, because the math is the math: park fees are set by the government, vehicles cost what they cost, and a competent guide is paid a market wage. When a quote drops one of these line items, it isn't a deal — it's a redistribution of cost into something you'll discover at the gate.

Park fees by park (2026 TANAPA schedule)

Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) sets entry fees nationally; the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) sets its own schedule for the crater and conservation area. These fees are identical for every operator — they are not negotiable, they are not "operator margin," and they fund the rangers, the anti-poaching units, and the road maintenance that makes a safari possible.

| Park / area | Adult entry (24 hrs) | Notes | |---|---:|---| | Serengeti National Park | $70 | + $60/pp/night concession fee inside the park | | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | $70 | NCAA-administered, not TANAPA | | Ngorongoro Crater entry | $295/vehicle/descent | One descent per vehicle per day; charged once whether you're 2 or 6 | | Tarangire National Park | $59 | | | Lake Manyara National Park | $59 | | | Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous) | $70 | The park was carved out of the Selous Game Reserve in 2019 | | Ruaha National Park | $30 | Cheaper park; cost wedge is the flight to get there | | Mahale Mountains National Park | $80 | + $120/pp/day chimpanzee tracking permit | | Gombe Stream National Park | $100 | + $150/pp chimp permit |

Add 18% VAT to every figure above. VAT is not optional and not a discount lever — operators who quote "ex-VAT" prices are pre-loading a surprise.

For a 7-day classic northern circuit with two nights inside the Serengeti, one night on the Ngorongoro rim, and two nights between Tarangire and Manyara, the park fees alone come to roughly USD 900-1,100 per person, before any tent, meal, or vehicle. This is why the budget tier cannot honestly run below $1,800-2,500 per person for a 7-day trip — the fees are the fees.

Source: TANAPA fee schedule, NCAA fee schedule, last verified 2026-05-27. We commit to refreshing this section within 30 days of any TANAPA notice.

The vehicle and the driver-guide

The standard safari vehicle is a Toyota Land Cruiser, 4×4, pop-up roof, seats up to seven guests. Running one for a week — fuel, maintenance, driver wages, accommodation for the driver — costs around USD 250-400 per day. On a private safari that cost is borne by your party alone; on a shared safari it is split between four and seven paying seats.

The driver-guide is paid USD 75-150 per day depending on seniority, plus your tips. A senior guide with ten years' Serengeti experience commands the upper end and is worth it — the difference between an okay safari and a great one is almost always the guide. Cheap operators rotate junior drivers and cut that cost; it is the single most common quality dilution in the market.

Shared-vs-private vehicle math (the breakeven). A shared seat on a budget tour runs $130-180 per person per day for vehicle and guide combined. A private 4×4 with senior guide runs $350-500 per day total — for the whole vehicle. The breakeven is around 4 paying adults: at four, a private vehicle is the same per-person cost as a shared seat, and you control your own schedule, sightings, and stops. Below four it costs more to go private; above four it costs less. Most couples upgrade to private at the mid-tier; most families of four or six default to private because the math is on their side.

A rough rule we tell our guests: if the vehicle-and-guide line on your quote is less than USD 300 per day, you are either on a shared vehicle (which may be fine — but you should know) or the guide is paid below market (which never produces a great safari).

Accommodation by tier (with sample properties)

Lodging is the single largest variable in trip price. Tanzania's range is enormous — from a $90/night mobile tent to a $3,200/night suite at the Crater Lodge — and the camp choice is what most distinguishes a $4,500 mid-tier safari from a $14,000 luxury one.

Budget tented camping — $80-150 per person per night. Mobile tents pitched on a private campsite, shared bucket-shower facilities, three cooked meals from a camp kitchen. Honest, functional, no luxury, often the best stars. Operators: Wayo Africa's green camps, Tanganyika Wilderness Camps' classic line. Honest about what's good and what's not — if you're 30 and like camping, this is genuine adventure travel; if you're 65, the bedroll on the floor will hurt.

Mid-range permanent tented camps and lodges — $200-450 per person per night. En-suite tents or lodge rooms, hot water on demand, three-course meals, a bar, electricity for charging, often a pool. This is the most-booked tier — about 70% of our guests stay at this level for at least part of the trip. Sample properties: Lemala Mara River Camp, Mbuzi Mawe Tented Lodge, Tarangire Sopa, Manyara Wildlife Camp.

Luxury camps — $600-1,200 per person per night. Hand-built tented suites, full board including drinks, included game drives, often private guiding. The named operators: Asilia (Sayari, Namiri Plains), Nomad (Serengeti Safari Camp, Lamai Serengeti), Sanctuary, &Beyond, Lemala's premium portfolio. This is where the experience step-changes — the guiding is better, the camps are positioned where the wildlife is, and the food becomes properly good.

Ultra-luxury — $1,500-3,500 per person per night. Singita Grumeti, the Crater Lodge, Greystoke Mahale, Beho Beho, Roving Bushtops. Genuine luxury suites, often with private plunge pools, included guiding, often included internal flights between properties. For most guests this is the splurge night — one or two stays on a longer trip, not the full ten — because the marginal increase from luxury to ultra-luxury is real but rarely a multiple of the price.

The right strategy for most guests is mid-range as the baseline, with one or two premium nights where they matter most: a Ngorongoro rim lodge on the night before the crater descent, or a migration-positioned camp inside the river-crossing window in August or September.

Internal flights between parks

Bush flights between safari airstrips are operated by Coastal Aviation, Auric Air, Regional Air, and Safari Air Link in 12-seat Cessna Caravans. They cost USD 200-450 per leg per person depending on route and season. Common routings: Arusha–Serengeti $250-350, Serengeti–Ngorongoro airstrip $200, Arusha–Ruaha $400-450, Ruaha–Selous $350.

The trade-off is straightforward. Driving from Arusha into the Serengeti is 8-10 hours each way over corrugated road; flying is 1.5 hours each way. On a 7-day trip the road transfer back is often worth taking — you'll see more game on the way and save $250-350 per person — but the road in is a poor use of safari time. On a 10+ day trip with multiple parks (northern + southern, or Mahale chimp tracking), flights are nearly mandatory because the alternative is two full driving days you don't have.

For route-by-route fares, soft-bag rules, and the fly-vs-drive decision matrix, see our complete Coastal Aviation Tanzania guide.

Meals, drinks, and the bar question

Almost every safari quote is sold as "full board" — three meals plus bottled water, included from the moment you arrive at camp. The variation is what counts as "drinks." Premium and ultra-premium camps usually include local beer, house wine, and soft drinks; mid-range and budget camps usually do not. If the line "alcohol included" isn't in your quote, assume it isn't, and budget USD 40-80 per couple per day for drinks at the camp bar. Premium spirits are almost never included, even at ultra-luxury — a bottle of Veuve at the Crater Lodge will run you the same as a bottle of Veuve in London.

Bottled water is essentially always included on game drives. Soft drinks at camp usually are. Hot drinks always are.

Tipping, visas, insurance, and the things that aren't in any quote

These are the four lines that turn a "USD 4,500 per person" quote into a USD 5,800 reality. They aren't hidden — they're just outside the operator's billable scope — but every honest cost-guide has to put them on the page.

Tipping (USD cash). Tipping is significant on a Tanzania safari and is expected rather than optional:

• Safari driver-guide: $20-30/pp/day. A 7-day safari for two: $280-420.
• Camp staff (collected at the camp): $10-15/pp/day to a shared tip box.
• Airport transfer driver: $5-10.
• Kilimanjaro crew (porters + guide team combined): $250-350/climber for a 7-day climb, distributed on the final morning.
• Restaurant server in Zanzibar: 10%.

Bring crisp post-2009 USD bills in a mix of $1/$5/$10/$20 denominations. Tanzanian banks reject older notes and notes with any tear, marker, or stamp. This is the most common single-fail at the airport — we've had guests denied $200 of perfectly serviceable money because the bills were 2007-vintage.

Visa. US, UK, EU, Canadian, and Australian passports buy an e-visa or visa-on-arrival for $50 single-entry / $100 multiple-entry. See the US State Department Tanzania page for the current requirements; multi-entry is worth it if your trip includes Zanzibar after the safari, because Zanzibar entry is treated as a re-entry by some immigration officers.

Travel insurance with medical evacuation. $150-450 per person per trip depending on age and coverage. Tanzania is not a country to be in without med-evac cover.

Flying Doctors evacuation membership. AMREF Flying Doctors — the East African air-ambulance service that flies to Wilson Airport in Nairobi — sells a per-trip tourist membership at roughly $40 per person per trip that covers the helicopter or fixed-wing extraction if you need it. We include this in every quote we send. Some operators don't. Ask.

International flights. Out of scope of every safari operator's quote — book separately. From Europe, KLM via Amsterdam, Qatar via Doha, Turkish via Istanbul, Emirates via Dubai, Ethiopian via Addis, and Kenya Airways via Nairobi all reach Kilimanjaro (JRO) at EUR 700-1,400 economy and USD 4,000-7,000 business. From North America: USD 1,200-2,000 economy with one connection, USD 6,000-10,000 business. From Australia: AUD 2,500-4,500 economy.

Tanzania safari prices per day — by tier

This is the section where we set out the Tanzania safari prices per day for each of the four tiers. The figures below are inclusive: park fees, vehicle, guide, lodging, meals on safari, ground transfers within the safari. They exclude the international flight, tips, visas, drinks, and insurance. They are the prices we'd quote you on a 7-day private trip in 2026.

Budget tier — $350-$500 per person per day

This is the budget safari Tanzania cost floor. You get a shared 4×4 with up to six other guests, a senior driver but not a senior guide, mobile camping at private campsites just outside the parks (or in budget public campsites), three cooked meals from a camp kitchen, all park fees, and a basic bedroll. The vehicle is comfortable; the tents are not luxurious; the food is honest. About 15% of our guests choose this tier — younger couples, repeat visitors who know what they're buying, families with teenagers comfortable with camping.

What's good: it is honest adventure travel and the wildlife you see is the same wildlife the $1,200/day guest sees. What's not: you don't pick your campsite, you don't pick your travel partners in the shared vehicle, and the seat you draw on game-drive day matters.

Mid-range tier — $500-$800 per person per day (the sweet spot)

This is where about 70% of our guests land — what we call the sweet spot because the Tanzania safari price at this tier covers a private 4×4 with one of our senior driver-guides, permanent tented camps with en-suite bathrooms and hot water, three good meals, and all park fees. The lodging is grown-up — proper bed, hot shower, a bar in camp — without crossing into the $1,000-night premium pricing.

Sample 7-day Classic northern circuit at this tier: USD 4,200-4,800 per person all-in for the safari (excluding international flights). For a couple, that's roughly USD 8,400-9,600 total. For four sharing two vehicles, the per-person cost drops to roughly USD 3,400-3,800 because the vehicle is amortised over four paying seats.

Luxury tier — $800-$1,200 per person per day

Luxury safari Tanzania packages at this tier use the named premium operators — Asilia, Nomad, Sanctuary, Lemala's premium line, &Beyond — in camps positioned where the wildlife is. The vehicles are private, the guiding is included and senior, full board includes drinks, and the camp staff:guest ratio is roughly 2:1.

A 7-day private luxury safari for two lands at USD 11,200-16,800 per person all-in (excluding international flights). The justification is the guiding, the camp positioning, and the inclusions — the migration camp you actually wanted, with the guide who actually finds the leopard.

Ultra-luxury tier — $1,200+ per person per day

Singita Grumeti, the Crater Lodge, Greystoke Mahale, Beho Beho, Roving Bushtops, Asilia's flagship Sayari. The differentiator is the property itself — these are camps with private plunge pools, fly-in airstrips, in-house wine cellars, and properties designed by the same architects as the world's top hotels. The wildlife you see is the same wildlife. What you're paying for is the suite and the privacy of the concession.

A 7-day all-Singita itinerary for a couple lands at roughly USD 35,000-50,000 total before international flights. We send maybe 8-10 of our guests a year to this tier. It's not for everyone and we won't try to sell it to you unless it's actually what you want.

7, 10, and 14-day sample Tanzania safari costs

These are real budget templates we use for quoting. Numbers updated 2026-05 and based on the last 12 trips we ran at each pattern.

7-day classic northern circuit — couple, mid-tier (link → our 7-day classic Tanzania itinerary)

A typical 7-day northern circuit: Tarangire → Lake Manyara → Ngorongoro Crater → Serengeti (two nights) → fly back. Private vehicle, mid-tier permanent tented camps, senior driver-guide.

• International flights (two economy from US East Coast): $2,800
• Safari (7 days, private mid-tier): $9,160 ($4,580 × 2)
• Tips (guide + camp staff): $420
• Visas (two single-entry): $100
• Travel insurance with med-evac: $500
• Flying Doctors (two): $80
• Drinks and extras: $400
• Total trip: USD 13,460 for two adults.

10-day northern + Zanzibar — family of four (link → the 10-day northern + southern combination)

7 days private mid-tier northern circuit + 3 nights northern Zanzibar at mid-tier beach lodge. Two private 4×4s — the family-of-four math means one vehicle is genuinely private, two driver-guides cost slightly less than one private senior + a shared budget seat.

• International flights (four economy): $5,600
• Safari (7 days, private vehicle, family rate): $15,200 ($3,800 × 4)
• Zanzibar (3 nights mid-tier, family): $3,600 ($900 × 4)
• Internal flight Serengeti-Zanzibar: $1,400 ($350 × 4)
• Tips, visas, insurance, extras: $2,400
• Total trip: USD 28,200 for four people.

14-day premium northern + southern — couple, luxury (link → our 14-day premium tour)

10 days luxury northern + southern (Ruaha or Nyerere), 4 nights premium Zanzibar beach lodge. Premium camps (Asilia, Nomad, Lemala flagship), private vehicles, two internal bush flights.

• International flights (two premium economy): $5,200
• Safari (10 days, luxury): $28,000 ($14,000 × 2)
• Zanzibar (4 nights premium): $4,400 ($1,100 × 2)
• Internal flights: $1,400
• Tips, visas, insurance, extras: $2,200
• Total trip: USD 41,200 for two adults.

Run the numbers for your dates in our cost calculator →

What's in an all-inclusive Tanzania safari package?

"All-inclusive" means different things from different operators. Here is what an honest Tanzania safari package cost should include and what it almost never does.

What's IN (the 7 things every honest quote includes):

1. All park entry fees and concession fees, with 18% VAT.
2. Vehicle — private 4×4 Land Cruiser with pop-up roof, fuel, maintenance, driver accommodation.
3. Driver-guide — wages for the full duration of the safari.
4. Accommodation — every night named (not "comparable"; the actual camp).
5. Full board on safari — three meals plus bottled water on game drives.
6. Ground transfers between safari segments (Arusha airport ↔ first camp, between parks).
7. Government taxes and concession fees inside the parks.

What's OUT (and what to budget separately):

• International flights (handle yourself or have us quote separately).
• Tips for guide, camp staff, and transfer drivers — $400-700 per couple for a 7-day trip.
• Visa fees — $50-100 per person.
• Travel insurance and med-evac cover — $150-450 per person.
• Flying Doctors evacuation membership — $40 per person.
• Drinks at camp (alcohol, premium soft drinks) — $40-80 per couple per day at mid-tier.
• Single-supplement surcharge — 40-60% for solo travellers; ask before booking solo.
• Optional add-ons — hot-air balloon over Serengeti ($650/pp), walking safari permits, cultural visits.

How to read a quote. A good quote lists each of the seven includes as a separate line with a price, plus the park fees broken out by park and night, plus the camp named by night. A bad quote says "all-inclusive 7-day Tanzania safari $3,499 per person" with no breakdown. The bad quote is hiding something — either the park fees, the vehicle (it's shared), or the camp (it's "comparable to" the marketing photo, which is not the same as the marketing photo).

Seasonal pricing — when Tanzania safaris are cheapest

Tanzania has three pricing seasons that move roughly 30-40% top to bottom. For a deeper read on the trade-offs, see our companion guide on when to go on a Tanzania safari.

Peak — June through October, plus 20 December through 5 January. Full rack rates at every camp. The migration river crossings (July-October), best weather (dry season), best wildlife visibility (animals at the waterholes). About 60% of our annual bookings.

Shoulder — November and 6 January through February. 10-20% off rack rates at most camps. November is the short rains (afternoon storms, mornings usually clear); January-February is the wildebeest calving in the southern Serengeti, which is genuinely spectacular and one of our favourite weeks of the year.

Green season — March, April, May. 25-40% off rack rates. The long rains, some unsealed roads close, a small number of mobile camps shut for the month. But the parks empty out, the calving is in full swing in March, the skies are dramatic, and the photography is the best of the year. We run a small number of green-season trips and our repeat guests love them.

If a date is flexible, the dollar savings of shifting from June to late November or to February are real — roughly $800-1,400 per person on a 7-day mid-tier trip. The wildlife trade-off is small. The weather trade-off is real but manageable.

Why are Tanzania safaris so expensive? (the honest answer)

Three reasons, in declining order of impact.

The park fees fund conservation. Tanzania's parks are run on a high-fee / low-density model — the opposite of South Kruger or the cheaper Kenyan parks. $70/pp/day to enter Serengeti is a lot; it also pays the rangers, the anti-poaching helicopters, and the fact that you'll often see a leopard sighting and the next vehicle is twenty minutes behind you. See TANAPA's annual reports for the conservation budget breakdown.

The logistics are remote. A camp inside the Serengeti is supplied by truck across 250km of corrugated road, run on solar and diesel generators, and staffed by people who fly in on the same Coastal Aviation flight you do. The marginal cost of a tented suite at Sayari is genuinely high — not Hyatt margin on top of a cheap room, but the actual cost of putting beds where there are no roads.

The market is small. Tanzania receives roughly 1.7 million tourists a year — less than a single weekend in Las Vegas. Camp capacity is intentionally capped. The result is high quality and low scale, which means there is no Marriott-scale operator pulling unit costs down through volume.

If you want a cheaper safari with similar wildlife, the comparable destinations are Kenya (the Mara, slightly cheaper, more crowded) and South Africa (Kruger, much cheaper but a different experience). See our full Tanzania vs Kenya safari comparison for the trade-offs.

How to save on a Tanzania safari (without ruining it)

Five real savings, ranked by impact, and three places we beg you not to save.

Where to save:

• Travel in shoulder or green season. $800-1,400 per person on a 7-day mid-tier trip. The migration is still spectacular; you'll just see it without 14 other vehicles.
• Group of 4-6, not 2. Per-person vehicle cost drops 30-40% because the Land Cruiser is paid for once and shared. This is the single biggest unit-cost lever.
• Mix tiers. Splurge on the migration camp for two nights, drop to mid-tier for the Tarangire night. Spend the money where the experience lives.
• Take the road transfer back from Serengeti instead of the bush flight on a 7-day trip. Saves $250-350 per person and you see more game on the way.
• Book direct. Wholesaler markups add 15-25% to the price. The wholesaler's job is genuine for first-timers who want a single transactional layer; the markup is also genuine.

Where to NEVER save — and this is the cluster's tonal thesis, the line we repeat to every guest who asks:

• The park fees. If a quote lacks fee detail, the operator is cheating you. Walk away. (This is also why this guide publishes the actual TANAPA schedule — so you can verify the numbers yourself.)
• The vehicle. A 7-passenger Land Cruiser with three guests is comfortable; with seven, it's cramped, and the wrong seat means a poor safari.
• The guide. A great guide makes the trip; a poor guide loses it. Junior guides are a real cost saving and a real quality cut.
• The travel insurance. Tanzania is not a place to be without medical evacuation cover.
• The post-Kilimanjaro rest day. Climbers who skip the rest night and fly home the same day arrive home injured. Build the recovery day in.

Hidden fees — the six gotchas

These are the six cost lines that disappear from cheap quotes and then reappear on your invoice. Every one of them is real, every one is legitimate, and every one should be on your quote from day one.

1. VAT — 18%. Tanzanian VAT is charged on essentially every line. Quotes that say "USD 3,499 per person + taxes" are pre-loading $630 onto your final invoice. Insist on VAT-inclusive pricing from the start.
2. NCAA crater entry — $295/vehicle/descent. Per vehicle, not per person, charged once per descent. For a couple in their own private vehicle, that's $147.50 per person for one descent. For four sharing the same vehicle, $73.75. Easy to miss; never optional.
3. Concession fees inside Serengeti — $60/pp/night. These are paid by camps that operate within the park boundary (Asilia, Nomad, Lemala). They are usually but not always bundled into the camp's quoted nightly rate. Ask.
4. Single-supplement surcharge — 40-60%. Solo travellers pay a single supplement on most camps because the rates are quoted per-person on double occupancy. Some camps run a "solo special" in shoulder season; it's worth asking. We negotiate this on behalf of our solo guests.
5. Conservation levies — $10-25/pp/night. Some camps charge an additional conservation levy to fund a community or wildlife trust. Asilia, &Beyond, and Singita all do this; it's usually $15-25/pp/night and it's a legitimate, well-spent line.
6. Flying Doctors evacuation membership — $40/pp/trip. Not technically hidden — it just gets left out of cheap quotes. We include it in every quote because the alternative — getting helicoptered out of a $80/night campsite without cover — is a $20,000 invoice nobody wants.

How to verify a Tanzania safari quote is fair (8-step checklist)

This is the part of the page Google wants to mark as a HowTo. We use this exact checklist when our guests show us competing quotes from other operators. Run any quote you receive through these 8 steps before you send a deposit.

Step 1 — Confirm the operator's KAPN and TATO membership. Both are public — search KAPN's directory and TATO's member list for the operator's name. If they're not there, they're operating outside the Tanzanian licensing regime. Walk away.

Step 2 — Demand line-item park fees. Every park, every night, with VAT. If the quote says "park fees included" without a breakdown, ask for the breakdown. If the operator can't or won't provide it, the fees aren't paid in full.

Step 3 — Ask which exact camp on which exact night. "Comparable to [premium camp]" is the magic phrase for a downgrade. Reputable operators name the camp by night. If the answer is "we'll confirm closer to date," you are buying an option, not a safari.

Step 4 — Confirm the vehicle is private or specify the shared seat count. "Private 4×4" should mean your party alone. If the operator hedges, the vehicle is shared.

Step 5 — Confirm the guide's name and experience. A senior driver-guide has a name and a CV. A junior driver does too — they're just not who you want.

Step 6 — Confirm VAT is included in every figure. "USD 3,499 + taxes" means you'll be paying $4,129. Lock the all-in price now.

Step 7 — Confirm the inclusions list against the seven items in our all-inclusive section. Park fees, vehicle, guide, named accommodation, full board, ground transfers, taxes. Missing items aren't deals — they're surprises.

Step 8 — Verify the operator's TTLB licence number. The Tanzania Tourism Licensing Board licence number should be on the operator's contact page and on the bottom of every quote. If it isn't, the operator isn't licensed. Ask, and verify.

When in doubt: contact our Arusha office and we'll review the competing quote with you. We do it for free, even when you book elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

Plan your Tanzania safari with Savunda

We're a Tanzania-licensed, KAPN- and TATO-registered operator based in Arusha, with a Delaware-registered US entity (Savunda LLC) for North American bookings. Every quote we send is built from the line-item math above; every park fee is paid in full; every camp is named by night.

Three places to go next, depending on where you are in planning:

• Plan my safari — six questions, draft itinerary back within 24 working hours, itemised by line.
• When to go on a Tanzania safari — the month-by-month read on weather, wildlife, and pricing seasons.
• Tanzania vs Kenya safari — the honest comparison if you're still choosing.
• Complete Tanzania safari guide — the cluster's planning pillar (this is the cost pillar; that one's the planning pillar).
• Run the numbers in our cost calculator — the live tool that uses the same math as this page.

Or contact our Arusha office directly. We do free quote reviews — even when you're not booking with us — because the cluster of operators who quote honestly is small and we'd rather you booked with any one of us than booked a bad trip.

Authors: Emmanuel Mtui, Lead guide (12 years in the Serengeti), and Matthew Charles, Founder, Savunda LLC. Published 2026-04-22, last reviewed 2026-05-27. Next scheduled review 2026-09-10 — or within 30 days of any TANAPA fee revision. KAPN member · TATO licensed · TTLB #__ · Arusha, Tanzania.