Does the safari run when the ground is wet?
The operator's own description of this course names mud beside dust: forest tracks, dirt roads, dust, mud, uneven ground, small stream crossings and water-splash stops. Wet ground is a condition the route already knows, so overnight rain is not the end of your booking.
The promise in the other direction is one we cannot make. No rain policy is published anywhere on this site, and writing one here would mean inventing it. The call is the operator's on the day.
What actually changes on a wet course
The course does not move and the base does not change. The same ground that raises dust when dry holds water when it is not: more mud, less dust in the air, fuller puddles at the water-splash stops, and a surface that answers the throttle a moment later. No two days are identical, which is why this site describes the ground rather than guaranteeing it.
The drive is published as a distance — the 18 km route — and the weather is one reason it is not published as a time: the operator lists weather among the things that change how long the driving takes, beside group size and the day's operations. The programme around it stays at approximately 4–4.5 hours door to door: the transfer, the registration, the three briefings, the practice drive and the showers take their time in any weather.
What the briefings say about a wet surface
Not one item on the published briefing list is written specially for rain, and that is the useful part: what matters most on a wet track is already in it. The safety briefing covers appropriate speed, safe distance, following the guide, overtaking and stopping rules and emergency procedures. On wet ground, distance is the room you need when grip arrives late, and the speed comes off before the corner, not in it.
Then you feel it instead of hearing it. Every driver takes a supervised practice drive on the ground the course actually has that day, and a wet practice track tells the guide more, not less. The guide has the final say, and a guest who is not cleared to drive rides the same route as a passenger at the adult fare.
If a departure cannot run
Start with the money, because that is the real question behind a forecast. Nothing is charged on this website: every booking is recorded as pay on the day of the tour, and no card is taken here. A departure that does not go out has taken nothing from you.
The fare does not move with the ground either: €30 per adult on the Buggy Safari, €25 per adult and €15 per child aged 6–10 on the Quad Safari, €30 and €18 on the Family Buggy Safari. The calendar only offers departures the operator has open, and 08:00, 11:00 and 13:00 are when the safari sets off from the base; your hotel pickup is earlier and is confirmed with your booking.
What is left is a conversation rather than a policy, settled on WhatsApp where a person answers:
- Another departure time, or another date.
- Or the booking simply falls away — at no cost, because nothing was charged in advance.
- Free cancellation stands whatever the weather: up to 24 hours before your departure, for any reason.
Wet ground, children and who should sit this one out
A wet forecast changes nothing about who may come, and that cuts both ways: no rule is relaxed because the ground is soft, and none is added because it is wet. A child aged 6–10 rides as a passenger beside an adult driver on the Quad Safari and the Family Buggy Safari only; from 11 everyone pays the adult fare; under 6 cannot take part on any of the three.
One of the operator's own cautions is worth a second read when rain is in the forecast: guests with back or neck problems are sent to the passenger seat. That seat shakes too, and wet ground does not make it gentler — if that is why you were choosing it, ask on WhatsApp before you book rather than after. The operator's guidance rules out pregnancy, recent surgery and heart conditions in any weather, and anyone who has been drinking or has taken drugs does not take part at all, neither as a driver nor as a passenger.