- Conde Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards 2024: best resorts in the world – No.20 The Best Resorts in the Rest of Africa (excludes South Africa) 2024
- Conde Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards 2021: best hotels and resorts in Africa – No.5 The Best Resorts in the Rest of Africa (excludes South Africa) 2021
- Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2021: The Best Resorts in the World – No.31 2021
- The Safari Awards Africa 2019 – Most Romantic Safari Property 2019
- The Safari Awards Africa 2019 – Best Safari Guiding Team 2019
- The Safari Awards Kenya 2019 – The Best Guiding Team – Winner 2019
- The Safari Awards Kenya 2019 – The Most Romantic Safari Property – Winner 2019
- The Safari Awards Kenya 2019 – The Best Walking Safari – 3rd Place 2019
- The Safari Awards Kenya 2019 – Best Safari Cuisine – Runner Up 2019
- The Safari Awards Kenya 2019 – Best Design – 3rd Place 2019
- 1 of 11 Global Ecosphere Retreats in the World – The Long Run 2019
- GOLD Eco Rating Certification – Ecotourism Kenya 2019
- Twisht – Global Experience Award 2019
- Chad Clark Travel Ventures Certified™ Experience 2019
- The Safari Awards Best Safari Guiding Team 3rd place 2018
- The Safari Awards Best Safari House – runners up 2018
- The Safari Awards Best Walking Safari – runners up 2018
- The Safari Awards Best Mobile Safari – runners up 2018
- Conde Nast Reader’s Choice awards – No.24 in 2017
- Africa’s Best Sustainable Boutique Hotel winner 2017
- African’s Leading Luxury Private Villa 2016 – World Travel Awards winner 2016
- Trip of a Lifetime – Fodors 100 Travel Awards 2014
- Best Guide – Harper’s Bazaar 2008
- 101 Best Hotels – Tatler Travel Guide 2007
- The 50 Best Camp Sites – The Independent 2006
- Best Safari Camp – Harper’s & Queen 2003
- Best Tented Camp in the World – Tatler 2003
- Top Guides of Africa – Conde Nast Traveller 2002
Cottar’s – In The Press
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2023
“25 Travel Deals to Book Before Summer Is Over” was also the leading story for CNT’s Daily Newsletter | August 2023 | Read the Article |
CNT has included Cottar’s Safaris in their 25 Travel Deals to Book Before Summer is Over. | August 2023 | Read the Article |
Coverage on the new tents at Cottar’s 1920s Camp on L’Officiel Arabia online | August 2023 | Read the Article |
Calvin’s interview on The Best Address online magazine | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Telegraph Herald (US) | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s new tents have been exclusively featured in Travel Weekly (US) | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Condé Nast Traveler’s | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Hotels Above Par | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Travel Agent Central | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Forbes.com | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Travel Pulse | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast online | July 2023 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast online | June 2023 | Read the Article |
Travel Curator’s roundup of World’s Top Luxury Eco Retreats | June 2023 | Read the Article |
Luxury Travel Magazine | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Seasonal Cravings | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Wealth of Geeks | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Tullahoma News | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Chronicle Tribune | May 2023 | Read the Article |
The Facts | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Hastings Tribune | May 2023 | Read the Article |
FTimes | May 2023 | Read the Article |
Ultimate Encounters | May 2023 | Read the Article |
CNT online | April 2023 | Read the Article |
Vogue Turkey | April 2023 | Read the Article |
Signature Media | April 2023 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s Safaris entomology safari in TTG Luxury Green Notes (page 16) spring issue. | April 2023 | Read the Article |
The Times online | March 2023 | Read the Article |
In the Home section of The Sunday Times today Meet the British entrepreneurs who built African eco-lodges |
March 2023 | Read the Article |
The new entomology experience in the Spring issue (also The Adventure Issue) of Elite Traveler. | March 2023 | Read the Article |
The Daily Mail Online – Cottar’s 1920s Camp has been included in their roundup of seven hotels around the world that transport guests back in time. | February 2023 | Read the Article |
Veranda.com | February 2023 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s Safaris new entomology safari in the inspiration news pages of Travel Africa magazine. | February 2023 | Read the Article |
Editorialist.com is a US-based fashion website | February 2023 | Read the Article |
HerWorld.com featuring Cottars. Her World is a female fashion magazine based in Singapore and Malaysia. | February 2023 | Read the Article |
Sustainable Travel Destinations for 2023 for MSN.com | January 2023 | Read the Article |
USA Today | January 2023 | Read the Article |
The Sunday Times | January 2023 | Read the Article |
on MSN.com featuring Cottar’s Safaris as one of best eco-focused hotels in the world (Cottar’s Safaris is #20)! | January 2023 | Read the Article |
Bleu Magazine | January 2023 | Read the Article |
Red Savannah – The Telegraph | January 2023 | Read the Article |
2022
Town & Country Magazine (US). Where to Travel in 2023 roundup piece, your next trip should be Africa in a private villa… | December 2022 | Read the Article |
Preferred by Nature Article – Ecosystem Restoration | November 2022 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s in Bleu Magazine | November 2022 | Read the Article |
Selling Travel Magazine. Cottar’s Safaris Budding Conservationist experience has been included in their African travel trend feature about safari experience that support local communities and conservation. | October 2022 | Read the Article |
In The Telegraph from 1st October. Cottar’s Bush Villa has been included in their roundup feature of the best holiday destinations to gather for big celebrations. | October 2022 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s 1920s Camp features at no.22 in the rest of Africa list, in The best resorts in the world: 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards |
October 2022 | Read the Article |
October issue of Wedding & Honeymoon Magazine | October 2022 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s Safaris Budding Conservationist included in TTG’s roundup of Eco Trips in the September issue. TTG is one of the UK’s leading trade publications | September 2022 | Read the Article |
Coverage in Travel Weekly – Cottar’s Safaris has been included in their roundup feature of new experiences and properties connecting guests to the local community. | August 2022 | Read the Article |
Cottar’s Safaris mention in Holly Tuppen’s piece on Wanderlust online on how to protect nature when travelling | August 2022 | Read the Article |
Honeymoon guide of the July / August issue of Rock n Roll Bride | July/August 2022 | Read the Article |
August issue of The Field Magazine | August 2022 | Read the Article |
Budding Conservationist programme in The Week Online’s fortnightly travel newsletter | July 2022 | Read the Article |
washingtonpost.com | July 2022 | Read the Article |
A Luxury Travel Blog | June 2022 | Read the Article |
Tatler Magazine | June 2022 | Read the Article |
CNN article | May 2022 | Read the Article |
coverage in the May issue of Luxe Magazine | May 2022 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveler | April 2022 | Read the Article |
New World Wealth Africa Wealth Report for 2022 with Henley & Partners | April 2022 | Read the Article |
Aardvark Safaris Blog | April 2022 | Read the Article |
Forbes Mexico | April 2022 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveller | March 2022 | Read the Article |
Robb Report Mexico | March 2022 | Read the Article |
Luxury Travel Magazine | February 2022 | Read the Article |
Asiana Wedding Magazine | February 2022 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveler By Juliet Kinsman | January 2022 | Read the Article |
World of Wonderlust | January 2022 | Read the Article |
2021
About Safari Life in East Sub Saharan Africa – featured in an important newspaper in Denmark | November 2021 | |
We are featured in the November Issue of Travel + Leisure (hard copy), Jacqui is the Editor in Cheif and stayed with us in July. | November 2021 | |
TATLER: The destinations we are most excited to travel to now | October 2021 | Read the Article |
LUX Responsible Culture | October 2021 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveller | October 2021 | Read the Article |
Brilliant Africa | October 2021 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveler – Readers Choice Awards 2021 | October 2021 | Read the Article |
Carrier UK | September 2021 | Read the Article |
Based on a true story | September 2021 | Read the Article |
Diplomat magazine – Cottar’s features as their ‘Window on the World’ | August Issue | |
Paradise Collective | July 2021 | Read the Article |
Forbes | July 2021 | Read the Article |
Town & Country | July 2021 | Read the Article |
Sarah Marshall for The Telegraph | July 2021 | Read the Article |
Independent | May 2021 | Read the Article |
CNTraveller | May 2021 | Read the Article |
Wanderlust | March 2021 | Read the Article |
Kartagener Associates Inc. | March 2021 | Read the Article |
Reforma | March 2021 | Read the Article |
2020
Aardvark: November issue of Wanderlust Travel Magazine. | November 2020 | |
The Cottar’s September blog is now live on A Luxury Travel Blog | September 2020 | Read the Article |
The national magazine of the Sierra Club | August 2020 | Read the Article |
Aardvark Safaris blog | February 2020 | Read the Article |
2019
Featured on BBC World Service Calvin interviewed around the ‘business of conservation’ and featured on BBC uk |
December 2019 | |
Washing Post Sunday Paper the tree-planting piece was published in print in the Sunday paper. It has also been picked up by several additional outlets including The San Francisco Chronicle and NZ Herald. |
December 2019 | |
Washington Post Online | December 2019 | Read the Article |
Also from News Ghana (received from the Xin Hua News Agency) | October 2019 | Read the Article |
Nomad Magazine (this is a soft copy of this month’s issue, page 50 – 51) | October 2019 | Read the Article |
Love Exploring | April 2019 | Read the Article |
Adventure Travel News | March 2019 | Read the Article |
2018
Conde Nast Traveler – Facebook Post | August 2018 | Read the Article |
Air Magazine, Dubai | July 2018 | Read the Article |
Timbuktu Travel | June 2018 | Read the Article |
Destination Weddings Magazine | July / August 2018 | Read the Article |
Tatler.com | May 2018 | Read the Article |
Tailormade Africa | April 2018 | Read the Article |
Luxury Travel Diary | April 2018 | Read the Article |
Mood of Living | Read the Article | |
Luxury Travel Diary | April 2018 | Read the Article |
Luxury Travel Diary | March 2018 | Read the Article |
www.tripstodiscover.com | March 2018 | Read the Article |
Luxury Travel Diary | January 2018 | Read the Article |
2017
Luxury Travel Diary | November 2017 | Read the Article |
positiveluxury.com | November 2017 | Read the Article |
Spears page 104 | November 2017 | Read the Article |
International Year for sustainable tourism for Development 2017 | Read the Article | |
CNN – The world’s best boutique hotels of 2017 | November 2017 | Read the Article |
Stuart Butler – Ndege News | October 2017 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveler | October 2017 | Read the Article |
The Standard | August 2017 | Read the Article |
The World Pursuit | August 2017 | Read the Article |
The World Pursuit | August 2017 | Read the Article |
Oracle Time Magazine | July 2017 | Read the Article |
Maptia.com | May 2017 | Read the Article |
The World Pursuit | May 2017 | Read the Article |
Signature Luxury Travel & Style magazine.Australia | January 2017 | Read the Article |
Luxe Getaways | January 2017 | Read the Article |
2016
Conde Nast Traveler | December 2016 | Read the Article |
Africa Geographic | September 2016 | Read the Article |
Center for Responsible Travel | October 2016 | Read the Article |
Charity Buzz | October 2016 | Read the Article |
The Safari Awards Finalist 2017 | October 2016 | |
Geographical Expeditions Magazine | Autumn 2016 | |
CNN story: 8 extravagant safari experiences in Kenya | October 2016 | Read the Article |
The Luxury Travel Expert | September 2016 | Read the Article |
Ker & Downey Safaris | August 2016 | Read the Article |
Travel Weekly | August 2016 | Read the Article |
BY CAPITAL LIFESTYLE | August 2016 | Read the Article |
Conde Nast Traveler | July 2016 | Read the Article |
Shermans Travel | July 2016 | Read the Article |
National Geographic Traveller 2016 | July 2016 | Read the Article |
VOA – Voice of America on How do we value wildlife | June 2016 | Read the Article |
The Wall Street Journal | March 2016 | Read the Article |
Outside Go – Calvin | March 2016 | Read the Article |
Outside Go – the Camp | March 2016 | Read the Article |
Travel & Leisure | March 2016 | Read the Article |
“Cottar’s 1920s Camp, in the Mara, Africa’s great landscape, is quintessentially safari-romantic, with oodles of style. The twenties furniture and gramophone, the Vuitton trunks and the hotties may all sound a bit kitsch but, strangely, it’s not. This is the most authentic combination of the traditional colonial safari and modern comfort. The alchemy of safari and sophistication is masterminded by Calvin Cottar, tall, handsome, a thirty something fifth-generation Kenyan who’s a god: think the fashion clout of Calvin Klein combined with the ability to save your life if charged by a buffalo. Cottar’s attention to every detail – from the food to the tracking, to the hefty sundowners (there’s no such thing as a ‘small’ drink here), to the kilims in the sitting room, to the rhythm of Africa – makes this camp so special.”
Winner of the Tatler Awards for Best Tented Camp
“The Cottar clan is referred to in the book as the First Family of the safari business. If you want to track the safari bloodline, you go to Cottar’s”
Travel + Leisure: World’s best awardsFollow The Leaders
“For those who find themselves hooked on Africa, there comes a time when the want something different, …not every guide can take you there. Some do not have the taste for it and some do not have the know-how, but Calvin Cottar and his 1920s safaris come with the kind of pedigree and promise that is hard to resist.”
Financial TimesRomance full of pedigree and promise
“One very special place, however, aims to give its visitors a unique encounter with Africa. Cottars 1920s Camp harmoniously fuses the elements that make for a stylish, comfortable, one-of-a-kind safari adventure”
Architectural DigestEVOKING THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EAST AFRICAN ADVENTURE
“Over the years, Cottars has guided royalty, sports figures, assorted tycoons, and scores of more down-to-earth types on safaris completely tailored to meet their needs and desires”
BloombergTrekking Into Africa
“If you ask old Africa hands to name the best guides, Cottars appears at the top of every list”
Conde Nast TravelerInto the Bush with the best
“Cottar’s Safari Camp is sublime: pure Out of Africa. The golden age of safari is recreated in a heady cocktail of marquee tents, antique furnishings and liveried staff”
Harpers AbroadTHE 150 BEST PLACES ON EARTH – Winner ‘Best Tented Camp in the World’, 2003
“Take White Hunters from the bookcase in the lounge of Cottar’s 1920s Camp and open it to the chapter “Trailblazers of the Twenties.” There you’ll find a photo of a hunting party, among whom is Calvin Cottar’s grandfather Mike. The hat he is wearing now sits on top of the bookcase. The Cottar clan is referred to in the book as the First Family of the safari business. If you want to track the safari bloodline, you go to Cottar’s.”
Travel + LeisureFollow The Leaders
“Within Kenya, Cottar’s and their 1920’s Camp and Villa keep a very low profile, but globally – this small family-run, purpose-driven company punches way above its weight.”
Conde Nast TravelerTravel + Leisure 2019
“To the south, set right next to the Maasai Mara reserve, Cottar’s 1920s Camp (from $800 per person per night) has “great traditional interiors and great family heritage,” Briggs says. “They’ve been doing safaris here almost a hundred years.” The tents are laden with campaign and colonial antiques, the floors lined with kilims and cotton dhurries. Some of the largely Maasai staff and guides have been with the Cottars for decades. The food is superb, the whole vibe is classic ‘Old Africa’—it’s fantastically stylish," says Briggs.”
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