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5 Stars - Everything is great

We had an extraordinary experience at Entumoto Safari camp! The Conservancy in which its located proved a truly peaceful respite from the hustle and bustle of the adjacent Maasai Mara National Park, however, its water hole still brought Elephants, Zebras, Buffalos, Waterbucks, Zebras and several other animals right up to our camp (we watched them over our fantastic breakfast and lunches). Separately, our excellent guide Purity ensured that our two full day game drives in the Mara park itself lived up to their "once in a lifetime" billing, allowing us to see not only the 'Big 5', the 'Ugly 5', and the Wildebeest Migration, but also a number of more intimate encounters with wildlife just feet away from our excellent open top/sides Land Cruisers. We can't recommend this camp highly enough and certainly hope to return with additional family members: our group of 2+1 stayed in a 2 bedroom Family Tent, which could easily have also fit 2-3 additional family members (presumably via prior arrangement with camp mgmt).

Avoid this place like the plague, the daytime manager is a complete scammer, the very first morning of our stay he introduced himself and suggested to me that we have an adult's conversation as he wanted another 1000 Kenyan shillings per night, I said I paid via hotels.com website by credit card, his reply was that the complex was under new management and the tariffs were different, I said I have paid and the new management didn't affect my booking. He still insisted we had this adult chat in the afternoon. I still said I am not paying more than I had already paid, he constantly kept calling throughout saying the payment I had made went to another guy I was totally unaware of, the manage then got this guy to the complex and were talking to me about increasing the payment, I refused, and it carried on to the second day were things got very heated, eventually the manager kicked my 4 year old son my friend and myself out of the room and wanted 14000 Kenyan shillings before he would let us leave the complex. If I didn't pay, he was going to call the police I once again said I had already paid, I showed him my hotels.com proof of payment and my credit card statement proof of payment, he still wanted the 14000 KES and then to leave, we had nowhere to go as I didn't think he could force us out. After paying the 14000 I said to him I would never come back here again, and I will be putting in a serious complaint about him, his response to that was I don't care. He is a total scammer