Tanzania scam reports and what things actually cost

I got quotes for the same 3-day Serengeti trip ranging from $600 to $2,400 and not one operator would explain what the difference actually was.

A quote only means something next to what other people actually paid. Every post here carries a real figure, a date, and the person who paid it — so a $2,400 quote either justifies itself or it does not.

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Landed at Zanzibar airport and the driver told me the fixed price to Stone Town was $60. I found out the next day it should have been about a third of that.

Airports, ferry terminals and border posts are where most overcharging happens, so they are their own places here. See what people actually paid for that exact transfer, and when.

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Every operator has five stars and a glossy website. How is anyone supposed to tell which ones are real companies and which are two guys with a rented Land Cruiser?

We do not rank operators. We show you who wrote each account: how long they have been a member, how many posts they have written, and whether their identity is verified.

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Paid a 50% deposit by bank transfer six weeks before the trip. The week before we flew, the phone number stopped working and the website went down.

Scam reports require a named subject, a date and a first-hand account — and the named business gets a right of reply, shown alongside. Patterns become visible once the reports are in one place.

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Nobody tells you the park fees, the concession fee and the vehicle fee are all separate, so the "all-inclusive" price you agreed to isn’t the price you pay.

Prices are stored with their unit and what they covered, so "per person, per day, excluding park fees" stays attached to the number instead of getting lost in the retelling.

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Asked four different people what a shared transfer from Kilimanjaro airport to Moshi costs and got four different answers, all confident.

Four confident answers is what happens with no data. A median, a range, and the number of reports behind it is what replaces it.

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Everything looks five stars online.

The same complaints, over and over

Everything looks five stars online.

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