Sonesta St. George Nijlcruise - 3 nachten vanuit Aswan

December 2022 Cruse experience... Summary: anything but upscale, forget any luxury experience First the good... The staff at the kitchen/dining are VERY helpful and kind, service is attentive. Food quality depends on your expectations. We stayed at Mena House for 3 nights and ate there. Food quality at St. George is nothing really compared to Mena house. But over-all it is certainly not bad. The rooms are just ok, nothing special (we stayed in top deck, view from there is better than that from lower floors). Other service is reasonable. The bad... They mention that tap water is for shower only. You need to brush using bottled water. Similarly, you need to drink bottle water. What is included? One 16oz water/person/day. Want extra? That will be 50 EGP for a 16oz bottle, which is a pure rip-off. Captain's cocktail? Watery margarita for free. Bad quality drinks. Coffee at breakfast is cheap, flavorless, and unremarkable. Room cleaning and laundry just okey. eager to charge but return clothes half dry. The evening entertainment programs are below-average at best. The ugly... The worst part of the cruse is the so called Egyptologists or the tour guides provided by Sonesta. Ous was one named Medhat Nasri, short on guiding, made no particular effort to avoid crowds, always with stretched arm for tips, collected commission from every shopping from every customer. Overall, really pathetic. Then there was an unscrupulous photographer from some street corner who came in the dining room of the boat, took pictures of you without permission, got it printed the next day and demanded money. The cruse managers turned a blind eye. The wifi is pathetic. Very very slow and yes, they have a 1GB data cap. But it is so slow that the cap did not matter. Hard to believe it was the year 2022. My two cents... If money is not an issue, consider ONLY Oberoy or Sanctuary cruises. Avoid all others, and most definitely avoid Sonesta, which is a scam. If money is an issue, do a private LXR-ASW (or the vice versa) road trip with a private guide. It will be much cheaper, and most importantly, you will really enjoy Egypt.

Always on the top my list is the place has to be clean and this was spotless! We upgraded to one of the suites and it was worth it! We saw the suite we were to have and you could not move around in it. I would ditch the fruit basket.The fruit was just too old and there was way too much for 2 people. Food, service we all good. THE BAD: 1- kids running around & picking at buffet 2- pool was freezing 3- dinner was serviced way too late. We had to get up by 7 and out the door by 8-8:30 am every morning to site see or you would miss it because the boat was leaving.We could have have dinner till 7:30 - 8:30 which was way too late for our stomachs to settle. Also we like a walk after dinner and you just could not do this. When docked the boats stay running. All you smelt was the fumes from our boat and others and trust me some of them had BLACK SMOKE coming out!! the NILE was filthy. We even saw a dead dog floating by on our last day in port. Cruising was the nicest part. 3 days is too short. This boat was to dock on its own and it did but due to the other boats all around us you could not enjoy the last afternoon on deck. AND our room ended up with non water view twice. Both nights we were kept awake from noice from the streets. We could not enjoy our 2 patio doors and amazing room because we looked at the street and not the Nile River both times. We had 1 day with Nile view. Not sure if you can ask about this when booking your room.

Best cruise i’ve ever been to, amazing stuff very helpful and polite The food is amazing and has a big variety Very recommended