16 Apr 2023
My husband and I wanted to take a private tour of Luxor from Hurghada. This tour fit our needs.
Sadly the ballot ride was cache due to winds. We were notified tge evening before and promised a $40 refund,which we appreciated.
Our driver picked is up at 2:30 in the morning to have us in Luxor at sunrise.
Once in Lucknow we picked up our Egyptologist, Summa who was very nice and knowledgeable. We did have a bit of a language issue. She spoke English but her accent had a different cadence and that was difficult.
When you go to Valley of the Kings make sure buy tye extra tombs. Sethy I is worth all 3 of the extra tickets. You will not be disappointed.
Our driver to Luxor has gotten good Rev, I had reading those. This next part if in our opinion and our experience. Boomba picked us up and had to grab fule, no problem. Once on the road he was constantly on the phone, in the dark and with foggy.
After on the road about 45 minutes Boomba stopped on the side of the road at an exit ramp and got out of the car. This woke me up. He appeared a bit agitated and was pacing while on the phone. This was disconcerting to us. After he got back in car and we started driving, Dr asked if all OK and he sad something about needing to get a call from his company in 10 min to move on. Odd...
After we were on the road from this stop the driver slowed down to almost a stop several times. Again we were uncomfortable with this behavior. Suddenly Bomba just increased speed and no more sudden stops. After about an hour we pulled off at a place that had many people sitting around with tea oe coffee. Boomba has us go inside with him and he chatted with several people , got coffee and a Shika /Hookah and brought to our table. Inhave asthma and migraines and could not be around this so my hi asked him to please move to another table. We sat there another 15-20 minutes and finally my husband asksd if we could go and we did.
We had to go over mountains and climb altitude with increasing fog and for some reason Bomba thought going 160kph was a good idea on these windy, windy roads.
This scared me a bit.
Bomba ended up with car trouble and we got another driver. We hope his car is ok.
As for the tour, yes, book without these people amd who knows maybe it was an odd day for Boomba.