Do I Need Travel Insurance?
You have made a significant investment in your travel plans and, while in most cases everything will run smoothly, situations may arise on or before your trip that are outside of our control as your travel agent and for which we cannot be held responsible. Travel insurance may help make your trip more worry-free by protecting you and your investment. Travel insurance should cover such losses as:
- Trip Cancellation and Interruption (due to sickness/death of you, family member, or travel companion)
- Emergency Medical Transportation (minimum of $100,000)
- Trip and Baggage Delay Lost or Stolen Baggage
- Doctor and Hospital Payments
- Travel Accident Insurance Weather delay
How to Get to Tanzania?
The best airport to fly to is Kilimanjaro international airport (code JRO) and we can arrange transfer from the Kilimanjaro airport to your hotel and back – subject to additional cost. If you are unable to find flights to Kilimanjaro airport can you reserve flights to either Nairobi airport, Kenya or Dar es Salaam airport, Tanzania. You will need to join a connecting flight to Kilimanjaro airport or bus transfer to Moshi town or Arusha town to start your climb.
International Flights
We start all our climbs from Moshi or Arusha town, which is approximately 45 km from Kilimanjaro International Airport.
The following airlines fly directly to Kilimanjaro airport:
- KLM – Direct flights from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro airport
- Condor – Direct flights from Frankfurt to Kilimanjaro airport
- Turkish Airlines – Direct flights from Istanbul to Kilimanjaro airport
- Kenya Airways – Direct flights from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro airport
- Precision Air – Direct flights from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro airport
- Qatar Airlines – Direct flights from Doha to Kilimanjaro airport
- Ethiopian Airlines – Direct flights from Addis Adaba to Kilimanjaro airport
- RwandAir – Direct flights from Kigali to Kilimanjaro airport
If you are unable find direct flights to Kilimanjaro airport, you can fly to Kilimanjaro airport via Dar Es Salaam or Nairobi (Kenya). Kilimanjaro is much closer to Nairobi than it is from Dar es Salaam. Nairobi receives a lot more air traffic than Kilimanjaro Airport, making for more competitive prices.
Domestic Flights Within Tanzania
The following airlines offer domestic flights within Tanzania:
- Precision Air
- Fly540
- Regional Air
- Fastjet
- Zan Air
- Coastal Aviation
- Air Excel
Bus Transfers
For a supplementary charge, we can help you arrange private transportation or shuttle bus transfers to Moshi or Arusha from Nairobi, and vice versa.
Although the bus departs from Nairobi’s Parkside Hotel, we arrange to fetch our clients from certain hotels in the Nairobi city centre, at the Nairobi airport, and we do not charge extra for this service. In Arusha or Moshi town, pick up or drop off can be arranged to most hotels in the city centre area.
| Routing | Schedule | Departing | Arriving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi to Arusha | Daily | 08:00 | 14:00 |
| Nairobi to Arusha | Daily | 14:00 | 18:30 |
| Nairobi to Moshi | Daily | 08:00 | 15:30 |
| Moshi to Nairobi | Daily | 06:00 | 14:00 |
| Arusha to Nairobi | Daily | 08:00 | 14:00 |
| Moshi to Nairobi | Daily | 10:30 | 18:30 |
| Arusha to Nairobi | Daily | 14:00 | 18:30 |
Private Transfers
At extra cost, private transfers to Arusha or Moshi from Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, or Mombassa and vice versa are possible.
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