Nile Cruise
Travel between Luxor and Aswan
on a swimming luxury cruiser
trip of 3 days and 2 nights (one way) or more
Welcome on board!
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- Water buffalos
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- Swimming Pool
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- Waving boys
prices range around 100 USD in summer;
100 to 125 USD in winter on a 5star- or 5star-deluxe-boat*
for each person and night in a doubleroom . (Single room 65% supplement) depending on season, ship and room. Meals are included, drinks not.
Aswan – Komombo – Edfu – Esna Lock – Luxor
or from Luxor, pass Esna Lock, stop at Edfu and Komombo to arrive in Aswan. You are free to visit the temples in Komombo and Edfu. In Edfu you need to rent and negotiate a horse carriage to take you to Edfu Temple and back.
Option: plus 35 USD including transporation for a professional guide,
if you want one to come to the boat in Komombo to visit the temple with you, and travel (by car) to Edfu, wait for you there, help you get a horse carriage, meet you again at the temple to explain.
Tickets are never included and have to be paid at the ticket counters. Also for the horse carriage in Edfu you have to pay the driver yourself.
Last Minute Cruises
The offer above is for „Last Minute Cruises“. The Nile Cruise Boats sell rooms which had been reserved by international tour operators – but which have not ben booked by tourists. The boats publish availabilities and prices to travel agents in Aswan or Luxor 5 days prior departure.
Usually there is no problem to find a good Nile Cruise Boat and guests can choose which boat they prefer. Waleed knows all boats very well and he would meet you in Aswan, to give you advice which boat has the best recommendations and take you then to the boat he thinks best to show to you.
Note for travelers during high season
Of course your cruise can only be guaranteed if it is booked and payed. You can book (and pay) well in advance or trust in the Last Minute offers and Waleed finding the best boat and free room for you (see also testimonials below).
Departure days
Departure days from Aswan
Usually – if there are enough tourists booking: Monday, wednesday, thursday, saturday.
Friday or sunday is only a very small chance.
Boats do NOT start from Aswan on sunday.
Departure days from Luxor
Friday, sunday, monday
(= 3 days for sure), tuesday (not guaranteed).
With Aswan-Individual you can travel „last minute“: take the next ship to leave, and enjoy the comforts of a 5-star nile cruiser, visit the temples of KomOmbo and Edfu, have a nap on sun-deck, gorge at the buffets, relax in comfortable sleepingrooms.
Passing Gebel el Silsila
Esna Lock
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- Edfu Temple
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- Sacred Barge of Horus
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- Horus, Sobek in Komombo
Get a taste
For example Aswan to Luxor
The boats leave at different times starting after noon: only one by one and not all at the same time (of course – who wants a convoy of boats?).
First day you check in around noon, have lunch, later the boat starts to sail in the afternoon or evening (of course you will be told at what time your boat will leave).
It will arrive in KomOmbo in the afternoon or night (half of the temple is devoted to the God of Crocodiles – Sobek – the other for Horus, God with the head of a falcon). Depending when the boat left Aswan, you can visit Komombo the first day or on the second day in the morning.
Landscape is floating by, while the ship sails to Edfu. This is one of the best preserved temple in Egypt, temple for Horus with statutes of falcons. There are horse-drawn-coaches waiting outside the boats. After 2 hours all guests have to be back on the boat which will continue to sail to Luxor and arrive there some time in the evening / night.
On the third day you check out after breakfast in Luxor (or stay one more night on the boat = 4 days / 3 nights).
Posted in tripadvisor
... never felt so rest assured ...
When we arrived in Egypt and got ourselves an Egyptian mobile #, Waleed has been calling my Egyptian mobile many times, checking if our trip has been going as planned and providing us updates with the cruise booking. Waleed also offered us courtesy pickup from train station.
I have never felt so rest assured in our Egypt trip – that from the very beginning to the very end we know everything had been taken care for the Aswan segment.
... very honest ...
Hi, (…) The cruise ship we ended up on was called MS Renaissance. We (…) booked through the wonderful Waleed (from aswan individual).
Comment on Waleed: Absolutely fantastic and very honest (which is quite a rare thing in Egypt).
The cruise ship was very nice, the food was ok (we are vegetarian) and the staff were excellent (except one guy in reception who was – lets just say – not a very nice person to put it politely).
