15 Jan 2023
Good all-round experience, with a number of tours and a nice amount of time on deck watching the world go by. Balloon trip was fun and the various temples were interesting, and the guides friendly and informative.
The only thing I would change is the morning in Luxor - an early rise for the balloon (which is fine, that’s the best/only time to do it), then all the way back to the boat for a short time (20 mins, for what?), just to return to pretty much the same location to see the King’s Valley. They are different tours with different guides/drivers. Both trips were fine but the return to the boat and back again is a total waste of time - you literally pass the same place you landed 2 hours earlier. Obviously it would be much better to spend that time seeing something else interesting in the same area on the West Bank (plenty of choice!). So if you’re doing this, insist that morning is one tour not two, returning to the boat for lunch as it sets off down the Nile.