Planning your cruise

Egypt tours with a Nile cruise in the middle are the way most people see the country for the first time, and for good reason. Cairo has the pyramids and the museum, the south has the temples and the tombs, and the river is the only comfortable way to move between the southern sites. The...Read More

How much does a Nile cruise cost? It is the first thing almost everyone asks, and most websites answer it with the word “from” and nothing else. Here is the real answer, taken from the thirty-seven ships priced on this site: three nights costs between $499 and $1,490 per person, four nights between $599 and...Read More

One has cabins and three suites, the other is all suites. Same route, same temples, similar number of guests. The difference is the room, and here is how to pick.Read More

Most Nile cruises are three or four nights. A week is the full Luxor to Aswan and back. What each one gives you, and who each one suits.Read More

A dahabiya carries twenty people and sails; a cruise ship carries a hundred or more and has a pool and a lift. Same temples, very different week. Here is how to pick.Read More

Both directions visit the same temples. The difference is three nights against four, one long day in Luxor against two easier mornings, and how much time you spend on the water.Read More