Paying the balance amount for your Safari in Tanzania

Congratulations on booking your Safari in Tanzania with Monkey Adventures. We are very excited to be given the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for choosing us.

The most common way to book your Safari is to pay a deposit online and the balance at a later point in time. In this post, we provide information on the various options available for paying your balance amount.

Option 1 - Paying Cash

The best way to pay the balance amount is cash once you arrive in Tanzania. And US Dollars are the preferred currency. Please make sure that the notes are printed on or after the year 2006, since only notes printed on or after 2006 are valid currency in Tanzania.

We will be collecting this amount from you, when we meet you for the briefing.

Incase you are looking to pay cash in a currency other than US Dollars, please review this article as well - Supported Currencies

But here arises a common problem. Some are not comfortable in carrying such large amounts of cash. So, we offer an easy and convenient solution to this problem.

Option 2 - Local Bank Transfer

In case you wish to make the full payment before you arrive, you can do a local bank transfer to us. We hold local currency bank accounts in USA (US Dollars), UK (Pounds), Germany (Euros) and Australia (Australian Dollars). You can easily transfer your payment to these bank accounts with a local bank transfer.

Please ask our team for the appropriate bank details. The bank transfer has to be done at least one month in advance.

Once you make the bank transfer, please send us the transaction details for our reference. Once the amount reaches our bank account, we will notify you and update your balance in the system as well.

Option 3 - International Bank Transfer

In case you wish to make the full payment before you arrive, you can do a bank transfer to us. The bank transfer has to be done at least one month in advance. Our bank in Tanzania processes electronic payments very slowly and it takes them 2-3 weeks to release the payment to us.

Please inform your bank that you wish to do an international wire transfer to this bank account. Your local bank will then advise you on the local currency equivalent which will be deducted from your bank account.

Please remember to instruct your bank that all transfer charges need to be borne by you. There will be three different charges - 1) your bank's charges, 2) intermediary bank's charges and 3) our bank's charges. So please make sure you instruct your bank to charge the transfer fees to the sender, and not the recipient.

Once you make the bank transfer, please send us the transaction details for our reference. Once the amount reaches our bank account, we will notify you and update your balance in the system as well.

Option 4 - Pay Online with your card

You can also make the full balance payment online with your credit or debit card. This would incur a card processing fees of 5%. Also, since it takes 2 weeks for our bank to process this payment, we request you to please let us know well in advance.

You can pay the full balance amount online. Please let our team know and we will send you a link for making the payment.

Summary

To summarize, the options for balance payment for your Safari in Tanzania are

1. Pay cash during the briefing once you meet us in Tanzania
2. Local Bank Transfer in USA, UK, EU and Australia
3. International Bank Transfer for other countries
4. Pay Online with Card (5% card processing fees)

We are actively looking at solutions to reduce costs and make this process easier. Please let us know if you have any suggestions.