2012 AWARDS – Africa’s Best Safari Hotels, Lodges & Camps
1. What are the AfricanCenter (AC )Awards?
The Awards is an important annual event for Africa’s travel industry. The main aim is to reward the best Safari products in Africa’s tourism sector, in recognition of thier excellent contribution towards making the Africa travel expirience memorable to visitors.
2. Who is the organiser of the AC Awards?
The AC Awards has been developed and is managed by the Africancenter’s travel experts.
3. Who is responsible for the monitoring of the nomination?
The AfricanCenter travel expert facility responsible for the monitoring of the scheme. This committee is chaired by and comprises expert members of various tourism-related entities.
4. What are the categories of the Awards?
The AC Awards are grouped into Four categories:
- The Best Hotels Awards
- The Best Safari Lodges
- The Best Safari Camps
- The Best Car Rental Companies
5. How can I participate in the AC Awards?
By filling out a nomination form telling us the place, name of the hotel, lodge or camp and how your stay was a pleasant experience.
6. What are the rules of the AC Awards?
Validity rules:
• Nominations can be made by anybody;
• Anybody can nominate several individuals but only once each (multiple nominations are counted as one);
• Quantitative information included in your nomination form will be kept confidential and will increase your chances of being selected as a finalist! Feel free to nominate yourself!
Rules to qualify as a finalist:
• A minimum of 100 nominations are necessary to be eligible as a finalist for a AC Award;
• The top 3 nominees qualify as finalists;
• Winners of a AC Award cannot qualify as finalists in the next two years after having won.
Walking in the shoes of the Mara Maasai
The Mara is a landscape replete with ingenuity, honesty and devastating beauty. It is God’s own country. As ALLAN OLINGO recently found out, a trip to the Mara is always a unique experience that transports you literally, into your childhood tales, about the wonders of Africa.
Exploring Mara’s lovers’ paradise
The Fairmont Mara Safari Club in the Masai Mara National Reserve is the perfect place to enjoy a romantic getaway, writes SONIA NJOGU.
As I sunk into comfort at Air Kenya’s lounge at Wilson Airport, I stuck out like a sore thumb. It was Friday afternoon and I was in my heels and office wear. Everybody else was already dressed for the Mara — khaki shorts, linen slacks, light cotton shirts… the works.
But making it through Nairobi’s constipated Mombasa Road and Nyayo Stadium was achievement enough.
The Myblue Hotel – “sophisticated simplicity”
The Myblue Hotel is situated in a splendid and unique scenario in one of the island’s most beautiful spots, Nungwi, famous for its sunsets and for its sea. It is about 50 km from the Stone Town airport and is easily accessible at about 60 km of transfer to the asphalt roads. The Resort reasserts the unmistakeable “sophisticated simplicity” of the famous Mosquito Blue Hotels and was built respecting the environment it is surrouinded by to guarantee an excellent service.
Expirience a walking safari in Mara….
WALKING SAFARIS-Our luxury safaris are designed to ensure that you do not experience the worst of Kenya, morning and afternoon walking safaris from the comfortable base of the camp, explore the parks amazingly high concentration of game. Although July, August and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year round. The famous Maasai tribesmen live within the dispersal area of the game reserve. Meals and overnight at Mara Sarova Lodge or Mara Sopa Lodge or equivalent.
