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• Our guide Saber make all...

  PamelaBerenice O,

  Aug 23, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  Our guide Saber make all the experiencies at the temples easy to understand, learn and fun with jokes. The service of the cruise is good, variety of food, clean. I would choose it again

• Perfect

  DIMITRIOS Z,

  Aug 20, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  Very good organization, polite and friendly treatment from professionals. Throughout the whole time they showed great interest in how we were doing, and whether we needed anything to help us was the most frequent question our guide asked us every day. We felt like we were part of a big group of friends.

• Great way to visit the temples!

  Andrea B,

  Aug 10, 2025

  - Viator

  4.00

  We just came back from this trip, and I think we need to split this review in two: one for the boat and the other one for the tours and experiences. I took one star because the boat, King of Thebes, was a bit run down. The rooms were nice, but the carpet on the corridors was old and needs replacing, the artificial grass on the top deck was also old and looked tacky, the water in the pool was cloudy. There was no toilet paper or towels to dry your hands at the toilet by the lobby, and there were a couple of vendors at the bazar level that were a little bit persistent in offering their services and goods. From the point of view of the experience and the tours, this cruise is the right one for you if that’s your main objective for this trip. It’s not a Sun-bathe, relaxing cruise, but a jam packed, early start (4-5am) adventure. The tours to the temples were absolutely fantastic. Our guide was Mahmoud, who happens to be an Egyptologist, and he shared a lot of information, and explained the history behind the temples and sites. I cannot commend him enough. The visit to the Nubian village was also a great experience. Not many people took part, maybe because you have to pay extra, but it’s definitely worth it. Our guide was Samuel, an old local man, and he took us for a swim in the Nile, to a market, a local school, a small restaurant where we tried local dishes and got to pet a baby crocodile. You finish your trip at sunset, which is just magical. We were lucky that our hot air balloon trip was allowed (it depends on the wind forecast) and that was a beautiful experience, in spite of the 4am start. This trip is ideal for those interested in Egyptian culture and history, not so much if you’re looking for your typical cruise. It’s a 5 star tour, in a 3 star boat.

• Great driving. The rest to review as organization and food

  Daniele T,

  Aug 9, 2025

  - Viator

  3.00

  Preamble: I have to dwell a little to explain how much nearness hovers throughout the experience. It's a review I wrote day by day... We chose this 5-star luxury cruise to celebrate my Nobel Prize in Physics and my election as US President. Let’s say that the 5 stars were on paper, as attested by the 2009 HACCP certificate displayed with ill-concealed pride in the lobby, while luxury was copied from the Moby Lines cabins on the Genoa-Olbia route. We had the misfortune to cross other ships during the landings to see how ours was clearly the ugliest... MD style without even Licia Colò to gild the pill... Let's say our cruise was in effect the 5-star Deluxe Penny Market version. Leaving that aside, there is one thing I keep asking myself. Why are 4 days and 3 nights of cruising defined if you only travel 2 days? On the first day you have the meeting at 9am and the cruise leaves the next day at 2pm. isn't it better to be honest and say 2 days Nile cruise? Yes ok you are in the boat but I don't see what is better than staying in a hotel, except that you eat worse, you are more uncomfortable and you are lulled by the noise (even a little by the smell) of diesels in the background that reconcile sleep... In addition you arrive in Luxor on the evening of the Third Party Day, then the cruise is reduced to: Day 2 from 14 to 17 and a little after dinner + Day 3 all day. It's not just a problem with this activity in particular, since all cruises (from 250 euros to 1000 euros that is) are structured in the same, identical way: disembark, explain 2 things to the good (at school level anyway) and then 50-70 minutes to see the temples independently. Unfortunately you all disembark at the same time and so the locations are always full of people... The program is unfaithful, but on the point I want to try to be precise. Day 1. On the first day we were supposed to have the pick up at the hotel but only the previous evening we learned that we would have to be at a meeting point near the dock. We should have seen Philae in the morning and Aswan Dam in the afternoon. Actually, the dam was jumped to give space to the female tourist: optional visit to the Nubian village for an additional $25! The dam, to be honest, was recovered the next day in about 6 minutes on the return from Abu Simbel. Always to be honest, however, it must be said that the right day was honorably supplanted (as well as by the Nubian village which, however, was optional and so we took the opportunity to go to the museum a few minutes walk from the pier), by 40 minutes of visit to the spice shop that offered an excellent flavor for meat that looked like the ''Ariosto" of the supermarket and the spice mixes that are cheaper at Bangla in Piazzale Dateo. Moreover, if you dare not buy, they forcibly stick the spices in your nose to make you fully appreciate the aroma... The Nubian village opens a new chapter. I state that we did not make the trip for 2 reasons: 1- we had already slept two nights in the Nubian village; 2- they sent us the video presentation of the tour and it looked trasher than a movie mel late Alvaro Vitali. In the order there was: a man in his 60s diving into the Nile with the grace of Pamela Anderson in Baywatch; a group of misfits over 50 sitting at the desks of an elementary school while repeating the numbers in Nubian language under the watchful eye of a teacher who could clearly see how he pitied them; the Crocodile house, that is a small bar where, in a tank without water closed by a grating, with a diameter of 1 meter, there is a poor crocodile of a couple of meters who is teased with a stick to amuse tourists and who thinks how much luckier his cousin was who became a handbag.... Evening at the port docked with 4 or 5 other ships and I wonder why it is considered a cruising day. Day 2. Wake up between 3 and 3.30. Departure for Abu Simbel with inevitable stop at the dearest highway because an average human being can not resist drinking instant coffee for more than 3 hours... Explanation of the temples, 1 hour of autonomy and another 3 hours and something by car to return. Stop for about 35 seconds net at the Aswan Dam and return by ship to sail at 2am (which was then about 3.30am). Afternoon of navigation and arrival at Kom Ombo around 6 with another 50 ships, 300000 people per square cm, explanation of half an hour and 50 minutes independently to turn a temple that is really small .. then ship and Departure for Edfu. Day 3. Wake up around 5am to visit the temple of Edfu. The program advertised on Viator clearly states that you should reach the place by horse-drawn carriage. Not that I mind avoiding mistreating those poor beasts, of course, but it is also right to make it clear that it is a mirror for the larks since it is absolutely not true. We went with a residual school bus from 15-18, on which the microphone guide told us to visit it quickly because in the early morning (6.00) there is a flood of people. One question: but organizing not to arrive all at once? I ask for a friend... We return by ship at around 7.30am, then sail to Luxor, arriving at about 6pm. Visit to Luxor temple (absolute masterpiece) and around 7.30 am return by ship to sleep once again anchored in the port. Day 4. Given that every other day one would take a day trip in the morning and one in the evening, the brilliant solution was to concentrate 314674 activities in the last half-day available. Wake up at 3.30am, check out at 4.14am, departure for the hot air balloons at 4.30am (which is a bit later but it's in). Hot air balloons over the Valley of the Kings are worth the trip. Calling it a wonderful experience is simplistic. As soon as you land, visit Karnak (10+ for Mahmoud who reversed the sense of visits and made sure we were practically alone). After the Karnak immediately valley of the Kings, and also here double 10+ for our guide who chose a time when there was practically no one and because he recommended some really impressive tombs. The basic ticket includes 3 graves. To see the Tutankhamun and Ramsete V tickets, however, two separate additional tickets must be purchased. I strongly recommend not to "do the arms" and take them because it is really worth it (they are about 15 euros each anyway). In the Valley of the Kings anyway we stayed between 10.30 and 12.00 which is a mystical experience. Bring 800 liters of water and an umbrella... It was a perfect day when punctual as the tax collector came the moment double tourist carved with screwing. First visit to the alabaster factory that puts immense sadness. There are some boys sitting on the floor pretending to inlay the rock by hand and a 1950s clak boss who jousts them like monkeys looking a bit like a bully and makes them repeat the welcome phrases to the tourists all in choir. Heartbroken, you enter the shop where the aforementioned bully holds a green statuette in his hand and, under threat of returning with friends with the Booster (strictly overturned Malossi exhaust), forces some tourists to do the same, then turn off the light showing its fluorescence with a song "Happy birthday to you...". I went out because I could not take it anymore and because I saw that one of the statuettes was Our Lady of Lourdes... Too much for me! Lunch free. So theoretically you could go anywhere you want. Too bad they take you to a cathedral in the desert where there is only one restaurant that, coincidentally, already has the table set, some ready meals and a host of throw in that not even in Via Dante under Christmas... Lunch all together in Valtour style but with more discomfort and then off to the colossus of Memnon and the temple of Hatshepsut, which however is located in an infamous stone and at 2 pm does not allow the presence of life forms of any kind (I also saw some rocks in difficulty). You go back to the ship around 3 to wait to go to the airport. Moving on to food. I didn't start with the idea of having Cracco at my table eh... But it looked like the self-service of Milano Ristorazione (those who did the middle school in the 90s in Milan will understand). Plus it's still a cruise, it could also be a romantic moment... If there were no tables divided into groups model tavern grandfather Peppino... But the prices are classy, like $6 a can of local beer. I found out that the French have a kind of soft all inclusive. I asked if I could upgrade my travel package and they said, "no baguette no party." Basically $100 extra expenses for a beer or a glass of wine each dinner + 3 beers + 1 gin and tonic (pretty silly) + 1 cuba pound on the day we spent 8 hours sailing... The food goes from the "pleasure" level to the "survival" level after the first meal (the desserts are good for this I arrived at the first meal). At the Third Party, Eastern Evening, he moves on to the level of "leftovers shuffled" in a pot full of sadness and mood... In general it is quite worrying if after visiting all day you are hungry and think: "oh no, it's mealtime" and consider skipping it because rather than the leftovers from the day before you would perhaps prefer to fast. To tell the truth, the Third Party beef stew improves, because the first day is a sole, but annealed, overcooked and heated for another 2 days acquires a whole other flavor.... P.S. honorable mention to the cooking of asphyxiated rice: with every spoonful a Vercellise dies. As noted, all entrance fees are excluded, so as soon as you arrive you have to drop $107 each for attraction admissions + $17 for tips. Entrances okay, but tips? It's not about the $17, eh, it's just the concept. I tip if I want and to whom I want, you shouldn't force me to do it, because otherwise it goes from an act of generosity to a hidden cost. At this point you charge 15 euros more for the package (or the package, you can see...) and at least I don't feel fooled. As soon as you disembark, you're assaulted by sellers who are nice and annoying. Okay, I'm in Egypt, I can expect that. But on the boat it's a bit too much. Basically they have a cameraman standing over you like a vest to make a wonderful video memory of the cruise. When you disembark, he sells you the USB stick with this cute middle school trip video. I didn't - of course - buy it so I have no idea how much it was asking for. But I'm sorry to know that Janpierre (one of the French with the all inclusive will have been called that for the calculation of the odds) will watch a video of his honeymoon with me occasionally smearing reading a book in the pool and reply annoyed to the cameraman who to get a greeting for the video calls all the women Shakira (including my girlfriend pitch black and who looks like Shakira as much as I look like Andreotti). Rooms are not. Carpet 80s, not spacious but not even holes, mini bar small but comfortable, windows that have difficulty closing and laundry washed in the appretto as it is rigid... I read rave reviews with pictures of the animals made with towels... They made me a very cute monkey, reusing dirty, damp towels that they wisely stuffed into an air conditioner gap... Did they want to create a more realistic effect and also make fleas on the pet? Drive. We were accompanied by Mahmoud. I don't know if he's an Egyptologist but it doesn't matter. He is good and passionate, speaks good English and is very helpful, as well as qualified... Unfortunately, he is also a victim of the system, so he has super tight deadlines and is obliged, I think contractually, even to female tourists. But if you go out, you go away and mind your own business it's super quiet, also because I don't think even he can stand more spices, perfumes and alabaster... That said, absolutely honorable mention for him who, even if he seems a little gruff, is still really good. Excursions. Beautiful temple of Philae, beautiful Abu Simbel, incredible Luxor, moving balloon and, in general, to really appreciate the places visited, because Egypt is a country chon immeasurable world heritage... Unfortunately, everything was always seasoned with a halo of near-approach that I believe is common to all current Nile cruises. In conclusion: nice cruise on the Nile, but also not! Let's say that probably investing a little more money you can live a very, very, very experience (put a lot more every additional 50 euros at sight choice) less Penny Market.

• Amazing Guide

  AbandonedHades,

  Aug 4, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  Our guide Mahmoud was an amazing guide. His knowledge of the sites was top notch and he was funny in top of it. the sites were amazing and one of a kind. the boat was a fun place to relax after a long day of adventures. I would highly recommend this tour for people traveling to Egypt