Category: Nile Cruise and Cairo

As you know we specialise in Nile Cruises but if you are looking for something else that is “water-based” you might want to consider a Gulet Cruise.

Barbara and I have enjoyed 2 Gulet Cruises to date and are thinking of taking a third one later this year.

Essentially a Gulet is a traditional Turkish sailing boat. Very much like a large yacht. They are pretty luxurious in comparison to a standard yacht however and you have a crew that sail and navigate the Gulet for you as well as prepare all your meals which are eaten in the open air at the rear of the Gulet. They take about 12 to 14 people and you soon get to know everyone because you are eating and sailing together.

Although you have excellent cabins with en-suite facilities, because it’s so warm in Turkey you end up sleeping “under the stars” on the deck.

It’s really quite an experience.

If you’d like to know more please call Barbara or myself on Freephone 0808 1089 100 and we’ll give you more details.

We’ve just reached the 2000 mark in listeners to our series of fourNile Cruise Podcasts since the first podcast was recorded in October, which is really great.

But…I would love to interview some more of you who have already enjoyed a Nile cruise for future episodes.

So if you’ve taken a Nile cruise on any vessel and with any operator and would enjoy letting other listeners hear what you thought please either email me at colin (at) tarsc.net (my email address has been “altered” here to save it being picked up by spammers so please just change the (at) in between colin and tarsc.net to @), or call me on Freephone 0808 1089 100 and we’ll arrange a mutually convenient time for me to interview you by telephone.

Thanks in advance!

I was reading the following post on a travel forum yesterday and thought while I was reading it that quite a few people may want to cover the exact amount of ground as this travellers while enjoying their first Nile cruise…

“So while we are in Egypt we want to see the pyramids, loads of temples and statues, the Sphinx, Temple of Luxor, take a Nile cruise, and Alexandria. But what I’m really excited about is getting to RIDE A CAMEL! …”

No problem regarding riding a camel (!) but not everyone realises that you will have a pretty hectic week if you try and combine seeing the Pyramids, the Sphinx AND enjoy a Nile cruise too.

The problem being that Nile cruises start and finish in Luxor and the Sphinx and Pyramids are near Cairo. And Luxor is 721km’s away from Cairo, which is quite some distance.

You can take a day’s excursion up to Cairo by air in the middle of your Nile cruise but your going to have to get up pretty early and really race around a fair bit in Cairo to get everything done. Plus it’s not a cheap day’s excursion as it involves a plane fair.

It’s far better to consider either returning to Egypt at a later date and staying in Cairo and really doing it justice OR consider getting us to arrange 2 nights in Cairo at the start of your trip. See all you want to see at a much more leisurely pace and then fly down to Luxor to join your Nile cruise. You’ll enjoy things much more and you’ll probably find that it wont’ cost you that much more than that “rushed” one day Cairo excursion would cost you.

If you’d like a quote for a Cairo add on please give Barbara or myself a call on our Freephone number 0808 1089 100.

Busy weekend for us with a lot of enquiries for Nile Cruises in February. As I mentioned in the last post February is pretty well booked but we did manage to find some availability on the Viking Premier and the Viking III on Friday.

I think most of that is gone now but if your still hoping to get away in February please call either myself, Colin, or Barbara on our Freephone number, 0808 1089 100 and we’ll have a good hunt around to see if we can find anything at all.

**In fact as I’m finishing this post Barbara has just managed to fix up two clients on the Viking Premier for the 11th of February so there are still the odd seats around.

We had quite a rush on yesterday for Nile cruises departing in February for the half-term. We had run out of seat availability but managed to find some extra availability for departures 4th, 11, 18th and 25th February which filled pretty fast. I think there are some seats left for the 11th and 25th as I write this post.

The cruise vessels on offer with these seats were the Viking II (4 star full board) and the Viking Premier (5 star full board).

If your still looking to get away in February please call us on 0808 1089 100 and we can see if we can still get the seats for those dates.