What does it cost and how fast is the turnaround?

€99 for a written review of your draft, €349 for full planning from scratch. Both are flat fees — no commissions, no upsells, no per-person pricing. Reviews are delivered within 48 hours. Full planning is a 1–2 week back-and-forth depending on how locked in your dates and group are.

What's actually in the deliverable?

A written report you can read, share with your group, and use to book. Day-by-day notes on routing, driving times, road conditions, lodge fit, and the points where the plan is likely to break. Specific recommendations on what to keep, change, or drop — with reasons. Not a sales brochure, not a generic PDF, not an AI-generated outline.

When in my planning should I come to you?

Ideally before the big bookings are locked in — once you have a draft route and a shortlist of lodges, but still have room to shift nights and sequencing. If you've already booked the rental car or 1–2 lodges, that's fine; we work around what's locked in and never recommend a fix that costs more in cancellations than it saves.

What if you don't find anything wrong?

Fix-it-free guarantee: if our written review doesn't surface at least 3 things worth changing in your plan, we refund you in full. In practice it has never happened — every Namibia draft we've seen has had at least one €600+ problem in it — but the guarantee makes the decision low-risk.

Do you work in German?

Yes. Half the team is German-speaking. You can submit your itinerary in either language and choose which language you want the report delivered in.

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Namibia trip planning & itinerary review

The right Namibia trip depends on who you are.We'll help you find it — or fix the draft you have.

Honest advice from people who actually drive Namibia. Flat fee, 48-hour turnaround, fix-it-free guarantee — and zero commissions, so the route is built around you, not the lodges paying us.

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Why trust this advice

Built in Namibia, by people who actually drive these roads

We live and work in Namibia. We focus on one thing: self-drive trips. Every review and every plan is hand-written by us — not pulled from a template, not generated by an AI, not lifted from a brochure.

When we say a road takes 7 hours instead of the 4 Google Maps shows, or that a 'top-rated' lodge isn't worth the detour for your group, it's because we've driven it and stayed there ourselves.

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It starts with you

What kind of traveller are you?

A trip that thrills a photographer bores a family. A pace that suits 30-year-olds wears out grandparents. We start with who's going — and shape every recommendation around that.

Solo or young couple

Flexible, curious, want the freedom to detour. Longer driving days are fine if the payoff is worth it. Mix of mid-range lodges and a night or two camping.

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Family with kids

Shorter drives, kid-friendly camps, predictable bathrooms, and lodges with pools. Etosha and Swakopmund usually in. Long Skeleton Coast days usually out.

Photographers & slow travellers

Two nights minimum at the spots that matter. Sunrise at Deadvlei, golden hour in Damaraland, time to wait for the light. Speed kills the trip.

Honeymoon

Fewer stops, higher-end lodges, scenic transfers over efficient ones. Fly-in segments where the drive doesn't earn its keep. No camping unless you both actively want it.

Friends, first time in Africa

Big-ticket highlights, sociable lodges, a guide-led activity or two so you're not just driving. Realistic expectations on how spread out everything actually is.

Mature travellers, own pace

Self-driving on your own terms. Shorter days, lodges with proper beds and no long walks to the room, predictable food, and a route that keeps you within reach of medical care. Adventure on your terms — not your knees'.

Not sure which you are? Most people are a mix. Pick the closest — we'll calibrate the rest.

Real Examples — both paths

What our work actually looks like

Two real snapshots: one from a plan we reviewed, one from a trip we built from scratch. Same depth either way — so you can judge the level of detail before you pay.

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Catching what would've gone wrong

Their plan

"3 nights at a lodge near Sesriem, 40 minutes from the gate. Day 5: early start for Deadvlei sunrise."

What actually happens: the outer Sesriem gate doesn't open until sunrise. By the time they reach Deadvlei — 60 km of dune road inside the park — the light is flat, the long shadows are gone, and the tour groups are already there. The single photograph they came for is the one they don't get.

Our review

Swap one of the three nights to a property inside the Sesriem perimeter (NWR Sesriem Camp, Dead Valley Lodge, Sossus Dune Lodge or Little Kulala). Inside-gate guests leave an hour before the outer gate opens, so you drive the dune road in the dark and arrive at Deadvlei before first light — empty pan, clean shadows, no crowd.

Same region. Same number of nights. The shot you actually came for.

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Designing a trip around who's going

The brief

"Family of 4, two kids 8 and 11, 14 days late June. Want Etosha, want dunes, mum is nervous on gravel."

What we built

10-day clockwise loop: Windhoek → Sossusvlei (2 nights) → Swakopmund (rest day, no driving) → Damaraland family lodge with pool → Etosha east-then-south (3 nights, two camps). 4×4 with rooftop ruled out, sedan automatic chosen, pre-booked the two lodges that fill 12 months out, left the flexible nights flexible.

Right country. Right route. Right pace for the people in the car.

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This is the level of detail you get either way — for every day of your route.

What We Catch

Six things we catch — before they cost you €600 to €1,200

Every Namibia plan we look at has some version of these. Three we usually find when we review a draft you've already built. Three we head off when we plan the trip with you from scratch. Either way, the cost of missing them is the same.

We catch these in your draft

Wrong driving times — €600+ in lost days

Google Maps says 3 hours. The gravel and the wildlife say 7. Travelers regularly burn 1–2 days of their trip on driving they didn't plan for, and lose pre-paid lodge nights they can no longer reach in time.

Wrong rental car — €1,200+ to swap mid-trip

A 2WD looks fine until you hit the Spreetshoogte Pass or a flooded river crossing. Changing vehicles in Windhoek mid-trip means a full new booking, drop-off fees, and one wasted day driving back.

Wrong booking order — €400+ per overbooked lodge

The best camps fill 12–14 months out. If you book the wrong sequence, you'll either overpay for last-minute alternatives or skip the highlights entirely. We tell you which lodges to lock in first and which can wait.

We head these off when planning from scratch

Trying to see everything — a tired blur, not a trip

First-time planners almost always cram Etosha, Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast and the Caprivi into 12 days. The result is 8 hours of driving on most days and no time at the places you actually came for. We design routes around what fits, not what's on the map.

Wrong region for your season — €1,000+ on the wrong nights

Etosha in February is mostly closed waterholes and rain. Caprivi in October is dust. Lodges and camps you'd love don't even open in your window. Without a plan built around your dates, you'll book the right country in the wrong month.

Wrong trip for who's going — luxury for overlanders, gravel for grandparents

A great honeymoon route ruins a family with three kids. An overlander's dream camp wastes a couple looking for sundowners on a deck. Building from scratch means we shape the trip around the people on it — not the other way round.

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We either build the whole trip with you, or pressure-test the plan you already have. You pick how much help you need.

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We build the route, lodges and timing — around who's actually going.

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