Friends,
This is our first Safari trip, so no advices would be unnecessary.
There are four adults, time is second half of December 2011, 10 days - 2 weeks long, budget accomodations, and the main interest is NgoroNgoro and Serengeti.

Would you please recommend us a reliable tour company?
What airport to fly to?
Thank you, el_bel.

Last year on September we are 9 peoples and spend 8 days safaris with Lillac adventures and safaris our safaris was camping and lodge we spend our night at Ngorongoro wild life lodge and Seronera wild life lodge seems are fair price lodge not expensive.and other days was Camping.I real reccommend this Company we are all enjowing very much and one day we will be back to Tanzania.thier web site is www.lillacadventures.com
Tell them Koromo say hello to them.

You mean to say "Tell Koromo, Koromo says Hi" ? You seem like a scout working for that company, K !

I may be wrong but I get the feeling I am looking at a mathematical equation of

Lillac (with 2 Ls, as Koromo emphasized in an earlier post) = Koromo = el_bel

Hi
We were a pax of 12 university students On a five day trip climbing mount Kilimanjaro.(we were on a tight budget)I would recommend www.africanparamountsafaris.com. AIRPORT used -Kilimanjaro international airport with KLM airline.
- pocket friendly
we paid $1000 per person to climb the mountain, for the safari serengeti national park, lake manyara national park and Ngorongoro conservation area.we paid $180 per person .... anything above that is daylight robbery
good luck
nb.Although Tanzanians are not English speakers you will get translators readily available

mwende -

<i>" Although Tanzanians are not English speakers you will get translators readily available "</i>

... since when? English is taught in school and most every guide/driver/tracker speaks English quite well.

As far as the safari @ $180/person (was that for entire safari or per day? how many days?)... well, maybe when there are 12/paxs traveling together; you won't get that if only 2/paxs traveling.

Hello,
we've done a 7 days private safari last year with Duma Explorer. Stacy, the owner, is very professional and created a great tour for us. We did Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Tarangire was a real surprise but Serengeti is absolutely amacing! You're going to love it!