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Cruise and Stay Egypt

Cruise and Stay Egypt.

Cruise and Stay Egypt - Maritim Jolie Ville Luxor

A lot of people search Google for that phrase looking for more information about the various options that can be added to the end of a Nile Cruise.

For a lot of people a Nile Cruise is a “one-off’ travel experience that they probably will not repeat. Of course, like any destination, we do get clients who go back again and love the whole atmosphere and experience of  cruising the Nile and love to repeat the journey many times. But for most people it’s something they will do only once.

However they are usually aware that Egypt offers so much for the holiday maker and traveller and they can take the opportunity to stay a further seven days and relax at one of the many fabulous hotels in a some of the most picturesque resorts on the Red Sea.

What most people dont’ realise at first is that as Nile Cruises begin and end in Luxor that there are certain limitations with regard to which Red Sea resort they can easily reach from Luxor.

These  are the choices of resort that you can choose from for your second week: Continue reading “Cruise and Stay Egypt”

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Nile Cruise Offers – 50% Offer Due To Finish

Royal Viking Nile Cruise RestaurantThe exceptional “Book a Nile Cruise and Get The 2nd Person 50% Off” offer is due to finish this Saturday the 13th of August.

If you havent’ seen the offer then let me briefly tell you about it again:

If you book a Nile Cruise on either the Viking Princess, the Royal Viking, the Royal Ruby or the Alexander The Great then you will pay full price for the first person and get a 50% reduction for the second person.

That offer is for Nile cruises departing between September 2011 and October 2012 on the Royal Ruby and for Nile cruises departing bewteen October 2011 and October 2012 on the Viking Princess, Royal Viking and Alexander The Great Nile cruise ships.

Continue reading “Nile Cruise Offers – 50% Offer Due To Finish”

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Nile Cruise – Our Journey home

I am writing this mid-flight aboard our Monarch flight back to Manchester. I’m at the point in any flight where I have read bits of my magazine, listened to music and various podcasts on my iPhone and tried in vain to sleep.

I’ve had a glass of red wine and had my inflight meal and now I’m bored STIFF! I have never been able to sit still for very long so I’m trying to think of the exercises I need to do on a flight to stop deep-vein thrombosis. Trouble is I can’t remember them and so I keep flexing my calf muscles, flexing my feet in and out and trying to stretch my thighs…all whilst sitting in my seat. The guy next to me must think I’ve either got a bladder problem and need to keep fidgeting or that I fancy him as my right leg keeps touching left leg inadvertently. I’d better starting speaking to Barbara who’s sitting across the aisle, in a very deep and manly way!!

I guess the only way I’ll know if I’ve suffered a deep-vein thrombosis will be when the plane lands and I stand up and my legs don’t! Guess I’d just have shuffle off the plane on my backside.

We met a whole bunch of our clients at Luxor Airport and thankfully every single one of them had had a wonderful trip and loved every second of their Nile cruise holiday. Each of them have told us they will send us a testimonial to add to the Nile-Cruises-4u website and all of them said how welcoming they found the Egyptian people.

Yesterday Barbara and I visited 4 of the leading hotels in Luxor including the Sofitel Karnak, the Maritim Jolie Ville, the Sonesta St. George and the Old Winter Palace. All excellent hotels that you could spend a wonderful week’s holiday enjoying brilliant sunshine at a fraction of the cost you would spend if you chased guaranteed sunshine as far as the Caribbean. I’ll add full descriptions and photographs of the hotels over the next week or so.

Now it’s time to try and fill in time for the rest of the flight in some unique way I haven’t thought of yet. Perhaps the stewardesses would let me help serve the next drinks service?

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Edfu and The Temple of Horus

Yesterday we were taken by horse and carriage to The Temple of Horus at Edfu. This form of transport is a great way to travel as long as your driver doesn’t think he’s employed by the Pony Express to deliver the US mail in record time.

Our driver seemed to feel that he would please us more by taking the journey at a gallop whenever the traffic would allow. But we reached the temple in one piece and on our return journey he gave us the sedate carriage ride we really wanted.

Our Egyptologist explained the history of seemingly the best preserved temple in Egypt and explained the reason was because for hundreds and hundreds of years it was covered in sand which helped preserve the exterior and interior as perfectly as it is.

He also hit the spot with me when he explained that this was the temple that celebrated the 21 day “Festival of Drunkeness” ( and I would suggest “silly dancing”). Sounds just the place for me!

A nice part of the Nile cruises that Barbara and I have enjoyed previously have been our table companions. This cruise has been no different and we have shared our 8 person table with 3 other interesting and lovely couples. From Helensborough in Scotland there is Patti and Roy who are enjoying their honeymoon on board ship. From Bath there is Linda and John and from Harrogate there is Melissa and Chris. All of them have travelled extensively throughout the world but all of them always harboured a desire to visit Egypt and cruise the Nile. They have all said that both the Royal Viking and the excursions have more than lived up to their expectations. Chris and Melissa are off to Cairo tomorrow for 3 nights and then travel on to El Gouna on the Red Sea for a further 4 nights. The rest of us fly home tomorrow.

We have had some really fun evenings together sitting out on the sundeck under the stars in the warm night air just talking, laughing and swapping stories about our travels and the mishaps that life throws at you.

I’m writing this on Sunday, again up on the sundeck, enjoying a cappuccino in the warm air of Luxor. Later we are going to visit some of the hotels in Luxor that we sell in order to get a better knowledge and feel for each property.

Tomorrow we sadly have to leave Egypt and fly home and on Tuesday re-open the Nile-Cruises-4u offices and get back to normal. In the meantime it’s another coffee for me and a last few hours of relaxation aboard the excellent Royal Viking.