Ascot Private

Africa does notgive itselfto everyone.

From the Ascot Private film

Private aircraft. Private guides. Twenty-four parties a year, and no more.

Begin your journey

Journeys from US$26,250 per person, based on four guests. Family journeys priced on application.

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Africa's finest places lie at the end of a dirt road or a grass strip. Your aircraft reaches them in forty minutes, lands on the strip beside camp, and waits until you are ready to leave.

A jet chartered for an Ascot Private journey, on the apron

Every seatis yours.

IThe aircraft

No one on board but the people you chose to travel with. The aircraft keeps your hours, and leaves only when you do.

An Ascot aircraft flying low over a herd of elephants

The safari beginsbefore you land.

IIThe arrival

Your pilot will often make a low pass along the strip before landing, and the game is already in view before the wheels touch the ground.

Stay withthe leopard.

IIIThe lodge

At every lodge, the vehicle and the guide are yours alone. Stay with a sighting for as long as it holds you.

Leopard Creek, on the edge of the Kruger

Golf on theKruger's edge.

IVThe course

At Leopard Creek, the thirteenth sits above the Crocodile River, with the Kruger on the far bank.

Thirty journeys · ten countries

Twenty-four parties
a year. No more.

The Ascot standard

Kept small,
on purpose.

We accept no more than twenty-four parties a year. Each is given its own aircraft, its own guides, and a Journey Architect who attends to every detail, from the first conversation to the final landing.

Parties each year: 24
Journeys: 30
Countries: 10
Aircraft classes: 7

The cabin of a jet chartered for an Ascot Private journey

Guests met at the aircraft door by their hosts — Met at the aircraft door

The Ascot Private difference

What private
actually means.

Your aircraft.
Every flight is yours. The only people on board are the people you chose to travel with, and the aircraft leaves when you do.
Your guide, your vehicle.
At every lodge the game vehicle and guide are yours alone. Stay with the leopard for an hour if you want to. Nobody is waiting to move on.
24 parties a year.
That is the most we take on. Scott reads every itinerary before you see it and speaks with every party before they fly.

Three collections

Thirty journeys,
three ways to fly.

Leopard Creek from the air, the Crocodile River beside the course — Leopard Creek, Mpumalanga

Collection I

Private golf safari journeys

Golf in the morning, the bush by evening. The Links at Fancourt, the 13th at Leopard Creek above the Crocodile River, Karen Country Club in Nairobi, with your aircraft doing the travelling in between. 10 journeys for two to four guests, from US$26,250 per person, based on four guests.

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Two lions wading through the Okavango Delta — The Okavango Delta, Botswana

Collection II

Private safari journeys

The Okavango, the Mara, the Skeleton Coast and the gorillas of Bwindi. Places that take a day or more to reach by road and under an hour by air. 10 journeys for two to four guests, from US$27,500 per person, based on four guests.

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Elephants at the waterhole, seen from the lounge of a private villa — Cheetah Plains, Sabi Sand

Collection III

Multigenerational family journeys

For families of four to six, up to three generations. A villa or lodge where grandparents can watch the waterhole from the deck while the children are out tracking with a ranger, and everyone meets for dinner. 10 journeys for families of four to six, each priced on application for your family's numbers and ages.

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"I have spent 30 years on Africa's airstrips and fairways, first building Ascot Tours and now this. Hundreds of our guests have flown private charter around Southern and East Africa with us over the years. Ascot Private is that way of travelling, and nothing else.
We host no more than 24 parties a year, from a collection of 30 journeys. I read every itinerary before it goes to you, and I speak with every party before they fly. I chose that number so I could keep doing both."

Scott Edkins, Founder

A King Air on finals to a grass strip — On finals

The journey

From the first conversation
to the last landing.

30 days before

A box arrives at your door: your printed itinerary, Ascot Private luggage, leather luggage tags and a gift chosen for where you are going. Your Journey Architect is on call at any hour.

Departure day

You are met at the aircraft by your host. You meet your pilot before you board, and the first leg leaves when you are ready.

The journey

Your aircraft between every lodge and course. Your own vehicle and guide at every stop. The day runs on your timetable.

30 days after

A printed book of your journey arrives at home, made from the photographs taken along the way.

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Featured journeys

Three journeys, one from each collection.

On The Garden Route & Sabi Sand — The Garden Route & Sabi Sand
10 nights · South Africa
From US$ 32,500 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On The Cape Circuit — The Cape Circuit
10 nights · South Africa
From US$ 31,250 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On The KZN Golf Circuit — The KZN Golf Circuit
9 nights · South Africa
From US$ 27,000 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On The Okavango Immersion — The Okavango Immersion
10 nights · Botswana
From US$ 32,500 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On The Wilderness South Africa — The Wilderness South Africa
10 nights · South Africa
From US$ 31,250 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On Tanzania Complete — Tanzania Complete
14 nights · Tanzania
From US$ 46,250 per person, based on four guests sharing, including private aircraft

On The Sabi Sand Estate — The Sabi Sand Estate
10 nights · South Africa
Price on application

On The Thornybush Dynasty — The Thornybush Dynasty
10 nights · South Africa
Price on application

On The Kalahari Family Expedition — The Kalahari Family Expedition
10 nights · South Africa
Price on application

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Three pillars, three films

Safari, golf and the generations, on film.

Watch the film
Victoria Falls, the Mara and the Cape from Ascot's own aircraft. With sound.

Golf in Africa
Film to come
Leopard Creek, Fancourt and Blair Atholl by private aircraft. The golf film is being shot.

The generations
Film to come
Four generations in one aircraft, from the Kalahari to the Mara. The family film follows.

Knysna and its lagoon from above — Knysna, Western Cape

GOLFING FOR CHANGE

Part of every journey
stays in Knysna.

Part of what you pay for every Ascot Private journey goes to Golfing for Change, our community project in Oupad, Knysna. It pays for hot meals twice a week and school uniforms for children in Oupad, and for mentors at an early childhood centre in Sweetwaters. Scott is there often and knows the children by name.

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