Welcome Pat and Ray. We are friends of Ray and Penny and did ROAR1 with them. We stayed at the Royal Livingstone Hotel. You are doing it the right way. It is certainly not of the calibre of the safari, which is anything BUT tents..the lodge was nicer than our house!!! We are doing ROAR2 since we enjoyed ROAR1 so much we said, "ROAR is so expensive, but we'll never do anything like this again, so we might as well do it." It was so wonderful, it is the only trip we have ever, ever repeated.