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Where The Curve Flattens
The band-by-band answer to what more money adds — including the point at which it stops adding wildlife and starts adding hospitality.
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The band-by-band answer to what more money adds — including the point at which it stops adding wildlife and starts adding hospitality.
- The question nobody publishes
- What each band adds
- Where the wildlife advantages stop
- What the money buys after that
- Private aviation: logistics or theatre
- The two things with no cheaper substitute
- How to spend a large budget well
- How to spend a large budget badly
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There is a question nobody in this industry publishes an answer to: what does the next thousand dollars a night actually add, and at what point does it stop adding anything that affects the safari?
The honest answer is that almost all the wildlife advantages are bought by about $1,800 a night, and everything above that is buying time, control and hospitality. All of those are real and worth money. They are not the same purchase, and conflating them is how people spend a great deal on a trip that a cheaper version would have beaten.
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