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Offer · Stay longer, move less

The moving is what costs.

Two nights here and two nights there is the most expensive way to spend four nights in Tanzania. Every move adds a transfer, a fresh set of park fees and a day of your vehicle, and it takes a morning out of the middle of your trip. Stay put and the per-night cost falls on its own.

Sweet spotThree to four nights per camp
RemovesTransfers & gate fees
Often addsA free fourth night
Costs youFewer places
How it worksThe arithmeticIs it for youHow to take itQuestionsAsk about it
01

Why this one costs less.

Every offer on this site has to survive being drawn as a chain. If it cannot, it is not an offer — it is a discount off a price somebody inflated first.

You cut a move

Four nights in one camp, not two plus two

The single decision. Everything below follows from it and nothing else has to change.

The fixed costs disappear

Transfer, gate fees, a vehicle day

A transfer is a flight or half a day of driving. Park entry is charged per person per twenty-four hours and re-entering a second park starts a second meter. None of that is per night, so removing a move removes all of it at once.

Some camps add a night

Stay four, pay three

Long-stay offers are common and almost never advertised. Where a camp runs one, four nights can cost close to what three would have.

02

The same four nights, two ways.

Not currency — the point is which lines exist at all, not what they cost this season. Struck-through lines are the ones that simply stop being on the invoice.

Two camps, two nights each

the usual way
  • Four nights of accommodationx4
  • Park entry, first park24 hr meter
  • Park entry, second parka second meter
  • Transfer between the twoflight or half a day
  • Vehicle and guide, moving daya full day, mostly driving
  • A morning lost to packing and the roadevery time

Six lines, four nights, and one whole day spent in transit.

One camp, four nights

the long route
  • Four nights of accommodationx4, often 3-for-4
  • Park entry, one parkone meter
  • Park entry, second parkgone
  • Transfer between the twogone
  • Vehicle and guide, moving daygone
  • A morning lost to packing and the roadgone

Two lines, four nights, and four full mornings in the park.

What you are actually giving up

You will see fewer places, and that is a real cost. A first trip that only visits one park is a thinner trip, whatever it saves. The honest version of this offer is not “stay in one camp” but “stop at three parks instead of five, and give each of them three nights”.

Two nights somewhere is often one and a half. You arrive at lunchtime and leave after breakfast, so a two-night stay buys you one full day. This is the sum most people have not done, and it is why cutting a stop rarely costs you as much game viewing as it appears to.

03

Is it for you?

We would rather lose the booking than sell you the wrong offer, because the wrong offer usually means the wrong trip.

Yes, if
  • You have ten days or fewer. Short trips are where extra moves do the most damage.
  • You have been on safari before and do not need to tick parks.
  • You are travelling with children, for whom packing every second morning is genuinely miserable.
  • You photograph. Knowing one area for four days beats meeting four areas for one.
Probably not, if
  • It is your only trip to Tanzania and you want to see the range of it. Then take the moves and pay for them knowingly.
  • You are chasing the migration, which sometimes genuinely requires being in two places.
  • You get restless in one place. There is no point saving money on a trip you are bored of.
04

How to take it.

Send us the itinerary you were planning

Ours or somebody else’s. It does not matter.

We will show you the same trip with one move taken out

Side by side, with what changes and what it costs you in what you see. Sometimes the answer is that the move is worth it, and we will say so.

Choose whichever you would rather have

This is a way of spending less, not a rule. Plenty of good trips have five stops in them.

05

Questions we get asked.

Is there really a free fourth night?

At some camps, in some seasons, yes — stay four, pay three is a common structure. It is not universal and it is not usually advertised, so it has to be asked property by property. We do that as a matter of course.

How many nights per camp is right?

Three is the number we would defend hardest. Two is short, four is comfortable, and beyond that most people want a change of scene unless the camp is exceptional.

Does this work in the Serengeti?

Particularly well, because the Serengeti is not one place. Four nights in one camp still gives you completely different country each day, which is not true of smaller parks.

What about the Ngorongoro Crater?

The opposite case. One night on the rim and one descent is usually enough — the crater floor is small, you will have seen it, and a second day down there costs another full set of crater fees for diminishing returns.

Send us the itinerary and we will do the sum.

We will show you the same trip with one move removed, what it saves, and what you no longer see. If the move is worth keeping we will tell you that instead.

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