We stayed at Angama Mara July 2017. It has beautiful views of the Mara as it is up on the escarpment. It was fun to see the hot air balloons drift across early in the morning. Food was vey good. Rooms and beds comfortable. Butler service. Draw back was that we were above the Mara so it was a bumpy ride down for our game drives. As our daughter has tremendous joint pain (since diagnosed as Lupus) we only had one long game drive a day. We did see many animals, and were lucky enough to see a lioness kill a young wildebeest. We saw many animals at the crossings, and did see a crossing of many zebra and wildebeest. The rooms and main lodge do not have the traditional camp vibe, more modern Africa. The crowds at the crossings were not as bad as those in the film of Indian Safari by MacMyDay. We could hear many animals prowling around outside our tent at night.
Have not been to Saruni Samburu.

We are looking at booking a Singita property from CT and thinking either Boulders or Ebony. We are doing this in February 2020, after a 10 day cruise. Our hope is to do three days Singita SA then up to Victoria Falls or reverse falls first then 3 days Safari. Any advice would help.
Also trying to find a guide for a full day in Cape Town and surrounding area for my husband and I.

We just finished up more than a week in Tanzania. Overall a very fun and impressive experience. Given we only did national parks / conservation areas, we couldn’t drive off the paths but the landscape and backdrop more than made up for it.

This was also also my first experience with &Beyond and I was really impressed, I imagine that this was Aman like 10-15 years ago. &Beyond is also the only time where I’ve seen the “butler” concept actually well executed (this includes my beloved Lanesborough). You’re assigned one person that takes care of pretty much all needs and with whom you have most of your interactions with so it ensures familiarity and consistency. We had a private driver the entire time and I worked with a travel advisor to ensure we always had private game drives and transportation. This allowed me to dodge a lot of the &Beyond issues that people have had around poor booking schedules. That said my thoughts on properties below:

Lemala Kili Villas - 4 bed villa for us (only two people). Bathroom could use some work but overall very comfortable and a good place to spend the day before starting on the safari. Property comes with house staff to take care of you (fixing up food, walks, starting fires, etc.)
Ang’ata Tarangire Camp - not luxury and I knew this but wanted to do a good down to earth tent experience
&Beyond Tree Lodge in Lake Manyara - very cool accommodations and massive rooms. Rooms are built on stilts so you feel like you’re living in the trees. Food was decent and service was some of the best I’ve ever experienced and hearing baboons scream in the middle of the night is a wicked feeling
&Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge - breath taking location and very good food given location. Our butler, Deo was simply fantastic. Only way I can describe it was that he reminded me of Carson from Downton Abbey. The guy has uncompromising service standards but is so friendly. Also the communication across the team was great, things always seemed to be done on time when we were away / outside the room without ever asking us anything. This is the best hotel experience I’ve ever had and my new number one
FS Serengeti - very good service and probably some of the best FS service but was hard for me to really get into it given the sky high expectations that were set by the &Beyond properties. Good food options, you get an a la carte menu vs fixed menus at other places. Property is small by FS standards but a behemoth at 77 rooms when other lodges are well below half of that.

Really looking forward to my next &Beyond experience!