River Cruises in Valley Of The Kings

Valley Of The Kings River Cruise Reviews

• RoxaneTraveled in May

  4

  I understood from the outset that "5 Stars" in Egypt would not be up to the standard of 5 Stars I would expect in Australia. However, I took issue with a few things. 1. I booked with 'Fez Travel' but my tour operator was Encounters Travel. I realised when booking all tours with different companies looked exactly the same, but this was not explained to me and I could very well have missed my Guide at the airport as he was holding an Encounters Travel sign. 2. On the first day, one of the sights (Memphis) was missed off our itinerary (even though it was right where we were at Saqqara). We went back to see it on our last day but this meant a 90 minute round trip for a 30 minute visit in 42 degree heat, and obviously ate into our time spent at the Museum because it was Ramadan and everything was closing early in the afternoon. 3. The hotel in Cairo was lovely, the breakfast buffet was very impressive, but compared with the 'breakfast box' provided for the early morning starts, the packed meal was very disappointing. Really just bread and cheese (no butter), with a piece of dry fruit bread/cake and a piece of fruit. Juice and water, but these had to be consumed prior to the flight because there are liquid restrictions even on domestic flights in Egypt. 4. Our cruise ship was the H/S Moondance. The staff were lovely and very gracious regarding my feedback, but made sure to point out they are just staff and have no control over the way the ship is managed. There was zero complimentary drinking water on this ship. (The hotel in Cairo provided one 600ml bottle per day). Coffee with breakfast was only Nescafe, not even filter coffee. You could purchase espresso (but not particularly nice espresso). Everything seemed geared towards "English" guests, although no one on our cruise was English. It seems very Egyptian for men to be liberal with compliments towards women on their beauty but honestly the staff need to know this is not always welcome or appropriate. The meals were of good quality, I would have preferred more traditional Egyptian cuisine. The night we had this was the best food on the whole trip. The breakfasts were good when they had the buffet, but on the morning of Abu Simbel, I did not go and so myself and the 5 others left behind were given a pre-prepared plate, without any query as to what we would like to have on this plate (which surely would not have been difficult if there's only 6 of us!!). And again, on the morning we departed at 5am to fly back to Cairo, a breakfast box that would have been just bread and cheese, if it hadn’t been for our guide who went out of his way to ensure we had a boiled egg, extra fruit, some butter (!!) etc. 5. My main feedback about the structure of the tour would be that after the Philae Temple/Aswan Dam (Day 6), it would be IMMENSELY preferable to fly back to Cairo that night, in order to wake at 7am the next day, have a proper breakfast in the Cairo hotel, then go to the Museum. There was nothing to do that night in Aswan and absolutely no need to stay on the cruise ship another night, and have to get up at 4am (AGAIN). 6. All the guides and our tour manager were EXCELLENT. The guides were so knowledgeable and obviously passionate. Factor in that you need to tip your guides around $10USD/day (or more). They deserve it! I feel like I was a very demanding guest and my guides did everything they could to try and make me happy - so thank you! 7. Lastly, do not buy anything - ANYTHING - without your guide present. You will be getting ripped off. Flat out.

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• seasunTraveled in September

  5

  Just returned from a 8 day Nile cruiseI have to say that I was very impressed with how truly Egypt tours handle all the aspects of our trip,start from meeting at luxor airport to very smooth check in on the nile cruise, tours and excursions,great guide mac was very knowledgeable and took a lot of care to make sure that we were able to see the sights we were interested in, We couldn't have asked for a better service, I truly love this company, When planning a trip to Egypt, you have to go on a cruise on the Nile! The rotation of the images and the feeling of the largest river of the earth is unique! An amazing experience to see and visit all these temples near the river! We traveled the Nile with the truly Egypt tours, from luxor to aswan and back to luxor again, If I had friends planning on a trip to egypt , I would strongly encourage them to book the nile cruise with truly Egypt tours

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• TalaTraveled in December

  5

  ancient Egypt and his team are awesome- he arranged transit for our small group around Egypt. Arranged the Nile Cruise for us from Aswan to Luxor with a guide and all activities before and after. Arranged for a surprise birthday party for my sister. Tailored our trip to the time we had as well as our interests. A complete wonderful time.

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  5 Days 4 Nights Cruise from Luxor to Aswan