About addoelephantsafari.com
addoelephantsafari.com is an independent guide to the guided safaris into Addo Elephant National Park from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa: full-day and half-day game drives, shore excursions for cruise passengers, the neighbouring Schotia private reserve and a two-day safari. This page explains who runs it, how it is financed and where the data comes from.
Who writes the Addo pages
addoelephantsafari.com is run by Patrick Kühne, an independent travel publisher based in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany. He builds and maintains a small portfolio of guides to attraction tickets and day tours, including gardenroutetour.com for the multi-day Garden Route trips from Cape Town, and sister sites for Cape Point, the Cape Winelands and Table Mountain. There is no agency and no rotating editorial team behind this site: the pages are researched, written and kept up to date by one person, the same one who answers the e-mails.
What the site compares
The guided Addo safaris from Gqeberha look alike at first glance: similar durations, similar titles, and the words “all inclusive” used for rather different packages. What actually separates them is the vehicle, whether lunch and the park conservation fee are included, and where you are picked up: your hotel, the cruise terminal or nowhere at all. We describe those differences for each safari and show live prices so the choice can be made in one place. We are not a booking agent: every reservation happens on GetYourGuide.
How the site is paid for
When you book through one of our links, GetYourGuide pays us a commission. Your price stays exactly the same: the commission comes out of the platform's margin, not your pocket. No contract obliges us to favour a particular safari, and our comparisons are ordered by what suits the trip, not by what pays us best.
Sources for prices, inclusions and park fees
Prices, ratings and review counts are pulled from GetYourGuide's live API and refreshed automatically several times a day, so the number on the page is the number at checkout. Durations, inclusions and pickup details come from the product pages and are re-checked regularly; park rules and fees come from South African National Parks (SANParks). Found something out of date? Write to us and we will correct it.
Not SANParks, not a safari operator
This is not the official website of Addo Elephant National Park. The park is managed by South African National Parks (SANParks), and we are not affiliated with SANParks or with the tour operators whose safaris are listed here. We do not run any vehicles; they run the safaris, we describe them. For binding information on park rules, gate times, fees and cancellations, the park authority and the booking page take precedence.
Contact
Questions about one of the safaris, or a correction to an inclusion or the park fee: every message is read and answered by a person, usually within a day or two. The contact address, the postal address and the VAT ID are in the legal notice.