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About

Who we are, and how we are paid

Both worth knowing before you take planning advice from anyone, including East Africa Honeymoons.

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What this site is

East Africa Honeymoons compares five countries on the things that actually differ between them — effort, cost, season and the specific way each one disappoints the couples it disappoints. Comparing them by their marketing is impossible, because all five claim the same three virtues.

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 East Africa guides, each going deeper on one subject than a single site could. This one is East Africa Honeymoons: Including the reason you might be disappointed by each. These are the ones that sit closest to it:

  • Honeymoon Safari Planner — Planning a safari honeymoon end to end: where, when, how long, and what it costs.
  • Honeymoon East Africa — The routes themselves: seven, ten and fourteen-night honeymoons, and why they are shaped that way.
  • Rwanda Honeymoon Safari — Gorillas, Lake Kivu and Nyungwe — Rwanda as a short, intense, unusually easy honeymoon.
  • Tanzania Honeymoon Safari — Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Zanzibar as a single honeymoon, and how to time the three.

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.

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