Yes, in our honest assessment, for the specific experience it offers — silent, low-altitude flight over the plains at sunrise, watching the landscape and its wildlife wake up from a genuinely unique vantage no vehicle can replicate, typically followed by a champagne bush breakfast set up in the plains once you land. It runs roughly $550-650 per person in the Serengeti and Mara, a meaningful add-on cost, and worth naming clearly: this is a scenic and atmospheric experience first, a wildlife-viewing exercise second — you will see game from the air, but sightings are incidental to the experience rather than the guaranteed close-up encounters a ground game drive delivers. Flights depend entirely on weather and wind conditions and can be cancelled or rescheduled at short notice, so we never recommend building a balloon flight into the final morning of a trip where a cancellation would mean missing it entirely. Popular flight operators sell out during peak migration season further ahead than almost anything else on a standard itinerary, so book this specific add-on early and separately from your general camp reservations. We consider it a genuine highlight for travelers who have already had strong ground-based game viewing earlier in the trip, rather than a substitute for it.