06 Jan 2023
Sailed on the 5 star Hapi 5.
If you are intensionally booking this boat all I can say is don’t! The boat is very old certainly not been refurbished since the 1980s and is very dirty.
We were in room 226 the air conditioning was very noisy and inefficient, water was dripping down the walls unable to use the wardrobe as was swimming. Stained mattresses torn bedding. The windows rattled and didn’t close properly, when moored at night alongside the other ships the diesel fumes would come in the cabin and choke you.
The food was ok but monotonous a slightly different variant of the same thing every night.
Now the positive!
The tours and excursions were amazing highly recommend the full excursion package so you can see most things. We paid extra to go to the botanical garden and Nubian village on a falukka which was amazing. Our guide was Hani he was brilliant, new his stuff and had a way of engaging his audience.
A trip down to the market in Aswan which you can do on your own is also recommended.
NOw would I go again.. Yes but not on the Hapi 5.