About
Who we are, and how we are paid
Both worth knowing before you take planning advice from anyone, including Newlywed Safaris.
What this site is
Newlywed Safaris covers the half of honeymoon planning nobody writes about, because it is not romantic: passport names, visas, insurance and health. Every one of them is trivially easy eight months out and expensive three weeks out, and that asymmetry is the whole reason the site exists.
We are not a safari operator. We do not own camps and we do not drive the vehicles.
Who arranges the safaris
When you send an enquiry it goes to Nomad Africa, our partner travel agency in Kenya. They build your itinerary, price it, hold the bookings, take the payments and look after you on the ground from the airport pickup to the flight home.
They plan and operate directly in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana and Zanzibar, which is the whole of what we publish guides to. Where we do not have that depth, we say so rather than taking the enquiry.
It is one partnership, not a marketplace. We do not put your enquiry out to a panel of operators and we do not pass your details to anyone else.
How we are paid
If you book a trip through an enquiry that started here, Nomad Africa pays us a commission. You pay no more than you would going to them directly — camps hold rate parity, so the commission comes out of the agency’s margin, not your price.
That is the whole commercial model. We think you should know it before you read anything else on the site.
The rules we write to
- No invented reviews. If you see a testimonial here, a real person wrote it and gave us permission to publish it with their name.
- No invented statistics or credentials. We do not claim licences, memberships, awards or numbers we cannot document.
- No promises about animals. Nobody can guarantee a river crossing or a leopard, and any site that implies otherwise is selling.
- Ranges, not fake precision. Where we publish costs they are clearly marked as indicative planning ranges. Your quote is the exact number.
- We say when something will not work. If your budget does not reach what you are picturing, or your dates are wrong for what you want to see, that goes in the first reply.
Part of a network
We publish a family of specialist Africa guides, each going deeper on one subject than a single site could. This one is Newlywed Safaris: The name on the ticket has to match the passport. These are the ones that sit closest to it:
- Honeymoon Safari Planner — Planning a safari honeymoon end to end: where, when, how long, and what it costs.
- Safari Honeymoon Planner — The twelve-month timeline: what to decide and when, from the engagement to the departure gate.
- Luxury African Honeymoons — What the top of the market buys on a honeymoon: exclusive use, private guiding and genuine seclusion.
- East Africa Honeymoons — Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zanzibar compared honestly as honeymoon destinations.
They share this partnership and this editorial standard, and they link to each other wherever a question genuinely belongs on one of the others rather than here.
More from our Africa guides
Our other Africa guides
Each of these is a focused guide we publish. Same Africa specialist behind every enquiry.
Ready to turn this into a real itinerary?
Send us your dates, who is travelling and roughly what you want to spend per person per night. Our Africa specialist comes back within 24 hours with a plan built around them and a costed quote.