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For a 7-day, mid-range, small-group guided safari in the Kruger area, the tour itself typically runs €2,250–4,150 per person — and that figure is usually all-inclusive (lodging, meals, park and conservation fees, guides, and game drives bundled into one price). The two costs people consistently forget to add on top are flights and travel insurance, which together can add another €400–800. A realistic all-in total for this tier lands somewhere around €2,700–5,000 per person for the week.
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This page covers South Africa's real numbers. If you're also weighing it against Uganda, Namibia, Botswana, or Kilimanjaro, the full guide has the same honest cost breakdown for all six — plus the Kruger-vs-Addo decision laid out side by side. Get the guide →
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Quoted safari prices almost always bundle accommodation, meals, park fees, and guided game drives into a single nightly or package rate — operators don't sell those separately, so breaking them into artificially separate line items would either double-count or require guessing at a split that isn't real. That's why this page (and the pin it came from) groups the trip into three honest categories instead: the tour package itself, flights, and insurance — the three things you're actually paying for as genuinely separate transactions.
This is the mid-range tier: 3–4 star lodges, quality meals, shared game drives with smaller group sizes. Budget self-drive options (particularly around Addo, which is cheaper and easier to self-drive than Kruger) can come in meaningfully lower; private guiding runs roughly 2–3x this range. The best way to see real current pricing for your dates is to compare a few operators directly rather than assume one fixed number
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Availability and season move this figure a lot (see the Best Time to Book guide for how much season alone changes this).
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Based on current round-trip pricing from Madrid to Johannesburg; London and Berlin routes land in a similar range, sometimes cheaper depending on the airline and booking window. This is the most volatile number on the page — book early and compare all three hubs rather than defaulting to whichever city you live nearest to.
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Had a flight delayed, cancelled, or denied boarding on this trip — even in the past? Under EU261, an EU-departing flight delayed 3+ hours, cancelled, or overbooked can be worth €250–600 in compensation, and most member states let you claim for years afterward. Compensair checks your flight for free and files the claim for you — they take 30% of whatever you're awarded, plus a further 10% if the airline forces it to court, so you only pay out of the compensation itself.
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This range depends heavily on trip length, age, and coverage tier, so it's worth getting an actual quote rather than budgeting off an estimate — the gap between a basic and a higher-coverage plan is usually smaller than people expect relative to the rest of the trip cost.
Tours and multi-day itineraries: browse and compare South Africa safari operators directly.
Rather have it fully planned? Go2Africa plans private South Africa safaris, including fly-in Kruger trips. Their own guide puts a mid-range fly-in safari at about €800–950 per person per night (US$920–1,090, sharing, flights excluded) — well above the small-group tour prices on this page, which is the point: you pay for a private trip and for someone else doing the planning and logistics. Enquiry-based, in English.
Travel Insurance? It depends on where you live. Germany: HanseMerkur. Spain: IATI. United Kingdom: EKTA, Gold or Max+ tier (EKTA’s underwriter is a smaller, offshore-licensed name than HanseMerkur or IATI, so read the policy wording yourself). Full comparison: Do You Need Travel Insurance for a Safari?