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Cabins Number
77 Cabins
Number of Decks
5 luxurious decks
Itineraries
Day 1 - Luxor
Welcome to Luxor! Our tour begins when you are greeted by our representative who will assist you at either Luxor airport or Luxor railway station. After you have collected your luggage, he will then take you, in our deluxe vehicle, to your cruise boat: your floating hotel for your next 8 days.
After an onboard lunch, you can enjoy a relaxing afternoon with plenty of quality time.
As the Nile flows gently underneath you, dinner is served. The cruise overnight in Luxor.
The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Karnak Sound and light show
Optional Trip: You may choose to enjoy a city tour riding a horse carriage
Day 2 - Luxor-Esna-Edfu
It is a new day! Your first breakfast on board, it is time to visit the West Bank of Luxor starting with the Valley of the Kings. It was the final resting place for the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. Covered in intricately detailed, vibrant wall-paintings, the tombs are normally every visitor's number-one stop on a West Bank visit.
Followed by the visit of Hatshepsut. The Temple is magnificently situated at the foot of the sheer cliffs fringing the desert hills. The temple itself was also partly hewn from the rock. Here Queen Hatshepsut had herself represented with the attributes of a male pharaoh (beard and short apron) to demonstrate that she possessed all the authority of a king.
Finishing with the immense Colossi of Memnon. The statue emitted a musical note at sunrise and this gave rise to the myth that Memnon was greeting his mother, Eos, with this soft, plaintive note.
After this visit to the Theban "City of the Dead”, you will be taken back to your boat for your lunch while you can watch as the boat sail to Edfu via Esna. After lunch, it is an afternoon Teatime on the Sundeck then you are invited to the Manager’s Cocktail Party in the Bar.
Dinner is served as the boat sails majestically towards Edfu.
The cruise overnight in Edfu.
Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.
Day 3 - Edfu-Kom Ombo-Aswan
After breakfast on board, transfer to visit Edfu. The temple's looming sandstone walls are covered in giant hieroglyphics and dazzling friezes that ape the patriotic decorations of earlier pharaohs.
After your visit to this superb temple, you will be taken back to the boat to sail onward to Kom Ombo.
After lunch, you can enjoy a tasty afternoon Tea on the Sundeck with plenty of time while the boat passes by Kom ombo continuing to sail to Aswan. After dinner, you are invited to Galabeya Party in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Aswan.
Day 4 - Aswan
After breakfast it is time to visit Aswan's High Dam which is modern Egypt's most lauded and yet controversial building project. It begun in 1960 and taking 11 years to complete.
After a short felucca sail, you visit Egypt's ancient center for the cult of Isis, the Temples of Philae. It was saved from a watery grave by UNESCO's rescue project during the building of the Aswan High Dam; the temples were transferred block by block from their original place on Philae Island to Agilika Island.
Finally yet importantly the unfinished obelisk, it is a 41-meter-long and four-meter-wide chunk of stone. It is estimated that if completed, the obelisk would have weighed 1,168 tons and would have been the largest ever hewn.
After lunch, a felucca ride in the Nile and a visit to the Botanical garden would be the perfect match for nature experience.
After dinner is served, you are invited to the Nubian Show in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Aswan
Optional Trip: You may choose to sail, by felucca, to see the Nubian village.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Philae Sound and light show
Day 5 - Aswan
After breakfast, you can enjoy a sunny morning. After lunch, you can enjoy a tasty afternoon Tea on the Sundeck with plenty of quality time. It is a lovely evening that you can enjoy a soft dinner onboard.
The cruise overnight in Aswan.
Optional Trip: You may choose to visit Abu Simbel. The most magnificent of the monuments Ramses II built, Abu Simbel is both the perfect example of the ambition of this pharaoh's reign and also a model illustration of the achievements of modern engineering and global cooperation. The entire temple complex was transplanted from its original location and lifted piece by piece to its current site by an international UNESCO team working against the clock to preserve it from being flooded by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The colossal stone statues that grace the facade are Pharaoh Ramses II's attempt to achieve immortality. It has worked. Today, visitors here still crane their necks in disbelief at the behemoth temples just as the pharaoh's subjects would have done when the temples were first raised. You can go either by flight or by coach.
Day 6 - Aswan-Kom ombo-Edfu-Esna-Luxor
An early sail to Komombo while having breakfast. As the cruise embark, you will visit the temple. The soaring columns of the Great Temple of Kom Ombo rising dramatically above the Nile's bank are one of Egypt's iconic views. This temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroeris. By getting back to the boat, the boat sails to Edfu.
After lunch, you enjoy a relaxing free time on board while the boat sail onward to Luxor via Esna. Now, it is time for an afternoon Tea on the Sundeck.
After dinner, you are invited to Galabeya Party in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Day 7 - Luxor
After breakfast onboard, you will visit the East bank starting with Karnak Temple. The temple complex of Karnak is not built to a single unified plan. It represents the building activity of many successive rulers, which became the most important of Egypt's temples during the New Kingdom.
Followed by Luxor Temple visit that was built first by Amenophis III and was dedicated to Amun.
Once your visit to these ancient Theban Temples is complete, you will return to the boat.
As the Nile flows gently underneath you, dinner is served. The cruise overnight in Luxor.
After dinner, you are invited to Belly Dance & Dervish show in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Optional Trip: You may choose to enjoy a city tour riding a horse carriage.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Karnak Sound and light show.
Day 8 - Luxor
You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check out. You will be transferred to Luxor airport, or Luxor railway station, by our representative who will help you with your luggage before your final departure.
Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.
Included
Meet and assist service upon arrival & departure
Assistance of our personal during your stay and excursions
All transfers by a modern air-conditioned deluxe vehicle
7 nights Accommodation on board 5 star cruise on full board basis
All Nile Cruise excursions as mentioned in the itinerary
Entrance fees to all sights between Luxor and Aswan
Egyptologist guide during your excursions
All service charges and taxes
Excluded
Any extras and personal expenses
Tipping kitty
Any services are not mentioned in the inclusion
Entry fees inside Tutankhamen Tomb, Nefertari, or Seti I Tomb in Luxor or any site with special entrance fees.
Optional trips
Day 1 - Luxor
Welcome to Luxor! Our tour begins when you are greeted by our representative who will assist you at either Luxor airport or Luxor railway station. After you have collected your luggage, he will then take you, in our deluxe vehicle, to your cruise boat: your floating hotel for your next 5 days.
After an onboard lunch, you will visit the East bank starting with Karnak Temple. The temple complex of Karnak is not built to a single unified plan. It represents the building activity of many successive rulers, which became the most important of Egypt's temples during the New Kingdom.
Followed by Luxor Temple visit that was built first by Amenophis III and was dedicated to Amun.
Once your visit to these ancient Theban Temples is complete, you will return to the boat. As the Nile flows gently underneath you, dinner is served. The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Karnak Sound and light show
Optional Trip: You may choose to enjoy a city tour riding a horse carriage
Day 2 - Luxor-Esna-Edfu
A new day, your first breakfast on board, and then it is time to visit the West Bank of Luxor starting with the Valley of the Kings. It was the final resting place for the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. Covered in intricately detailed, vibrant wall-paintings, the tombs are normally every visitor's number-one stop on a West Bank visit.
Followed by the visit of Hatshepsut. The Temple is magnificently situated at the foot of the sheer cliffs fringing the desert hills. The temple itself was also partly hewn from the rock. Here Queen Hatshepsut had herself represented with the attributes of a male pharaoh (beard and short apron) to demonstrate that she possessed all the authority of a king.
Finishing with the immense Colossi of Memnon. The statue emitted a musical note at sunrise and this gave rise to the myth that Memnon was greeting his mother, Eos, with this soft, plaintive note.
After this visit to the Theban “City of the Dead”, you will be taken back to your boat for your lunch, and then you can watch as it departs Luxor and sails to Edfu via Esna. After lunch, you are invited to the Manager’s Cocktail Party in the Bar.
Dinner is served as the boat sails majestically towards Edfu.
The cruise overnight in Edfu.
Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.
Day 3 - Edfu-Kom ombo-Aswan
After breakfast on board, transfer to visit Edfu Temple. The temple's looming sandstone walls are covered in giant hieroglyphics and dazzling friezes that ape the patriotic decorations of earlier pharaohs. After your visit to this superb temple, you will be taken back to the boat to sail onward to Kom Ombo. After lunch, you can enjoy a tasty afternoon Tea on the Sundeck with plenty of time while the boat continue to sail to Kom ombo.
As the boat embark, you visit the temple. The soaring columns of the Great Temple of Kom Ombo rising dramatically above the Nile's bank are one of Egypt's iconic views. This temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroeris.
By getting back to the boat, it sails again heading to Aswan. After dinner, you are invited to Galabeya Party in the Bar. The cruise overnight in Aswan.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Philae Sound and light show.
Day 4 - Aswan
After breakfast it is time to visit Aswan's High Dam which is modern Egypt's most lauded and yet controversial building project. It begun in 1960 and taking 11 years to complete.
After a short felucca sail, you visit Egypt's ancient center for the cult of Isis, the Temples of Philae. It was saved from a watery grave by UNESCO's rescue project during the building of the Aswan High Dam; the temples were transferred block by block from their original place on Philae Island to Agilika Island.
Finally yet importantly the unfinished obelisk, it is a 41-meter-long and four-meter-wide chunk of stone. It is estimated that if completed, the obelisk would have weighed 1,168 tons and would have been the largest ever hewn.
After lunch, a felucca ride in the Nile and a visit to the Botanical garden would be the perfect match for nature experience.
After dinner is served, you are invited to the Nubian Show in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Aswan
Optional Trip: You may choose to sail, by felucca, to see the Nubian village.
Optional Trip: You may choose to visit Abu Simbel. The most magnificent of the monuments Ramses II built, Abu Simbel is both the perfect example of the ambition of this pharaoh's reign and also a model illustration of the achievements of modern engineering and global cooperation. The entire temple complex was transplanted from its original location and lifted piece by piece to its current site by an international UNESCO team working against the clock to preserve it from being flooded by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The colossal stone statues that grace the facade are Pharaoh Ramses II's attempt to achieve immortality. It has worked. Today, visitors here still crane their necks in disbelief at the behemoth temples just as the pharaoh's subjects would have done when the temples were first raised. You can go either by flight or by coach.
Day 5 - Aswan
You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check out and then you will be transferred to Aswan airport, or Aswan railway station, by our representative who will help you with your luggage before your final departure.
Optional Trip: You may choose to sail, by felucca, to see the Nubian village.
Optional Trip: You may choose to visit Abu Simbel. The most magnificent of the monuments Ramses II built, Abu Simbel is both the perfect example of the ambition of this pharaoh's reign and also a model illustration of the achievements of modern engineering and global cooperation. The entire temple complex was transplanted from its original location and lifted piece by piece to its current site by an international UNESCO team working against the clock to preserve it from being flooded by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The colossal stone statues that grace the facade are Pharaoh Ramses II's attempt to achieve immortality. It has worked. Today, visitors here still crane their necks in disbelief at the behemoth temples just as the pharaoh's subjects would have done when the temples were first raised. You can go either by flight or by coach.
Included
Meet and assist service upon arrival & departure
Assistance of our personal during your stay and excursions
All transfers by a modern air-conditioned deluxe vehicle
4 nights Accommodation on board 5 star cruise on full board basis
All Nile Cruise excursions as mentioned in the itinerary
Entrance fees to all sights between Luxor and Aswan
Egyptologist guide during your excursions
All service charges and taxes
Excluded
Any extras and personal expenses
Tipping kitty
Any services are not mentioned in the inclusion
Entry fees inside Tutankhamen Tomb, Nefertari, or Seti I Tomb in Luxor or any site with special entrance fees.
Optional trips
Day 1 - Aswan
Welcome to Aswan! Our tour begins when you are greeted by our representative who will assist you at either Aswan airport or Aswan railway station. After you have collected your luggage, he will then take you, in our deluxe vehicle, to your cruise boat: your floating hotel for your next 4 days.
After an onboard lunch, you visit Aswan's High Dam which is modern Egypt's most lauded and yet controversial building project. It begun in 1960 and taking 11 years to complete.
After a short felucca sail, you visit Egypt's ancient center for the cult of Isis, the Temples of Philae. It was saved from a watery grave by UNESCO's rescue project during the building of the Aswan High Dam; the temples were transferred block by block from their original place on Philae Island to Agilika Island.
Finally yet importantly the unfinished obelisk, it is a 41-meter-long and four-meter-wide chunk of stone. It is estimated that if completed, the obelisk would have weighed 1,168 tons and would have been the largest ever hewn.
As the Nile flows gently underneath you, dinner is served.
The cruise overnight in Aswan.
Optional Trip: You may choose to sail, by felucca, to see the Nubian village.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Philae Sound and light show
Day 2 - Aswan-Kom ombo- Edfu-Esna-Luxor
Your first breakfast on board during an early sail to Komombo. As the cruise embark, you will visit the temple. The soaring columns of the Great Temple of Kom Ombo rising dramatically above the Nile's bank are one of Egypt's iconic views. This temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroeris.
By getting back to the boat, the boat sails to Edfu.
After lunch, transfer to visit Edfu Temple. The temple's looming sandstone walls are covered in giant hieroglyphics and dazzling friezes that ape the patriotic decorations of earlier pharaohs. After your visit to this superb temple, you will be taken back to the boat to sail onward to Luxor via Esna. Now, it is time for an afternoon Tea on the Sundeck.
This evening let us enjoy the cocktail party followed by dinner. After dinner, you are invited to Galabeya Party in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Day 3 - Luxor
After breakfast onboard, it is time to visit the West Bank of Luxor starting with the Valley of the Kings. It was the final resting place for the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. Covered in intricately detailed, vibrant wall-paintings, the tombs are normally every visitor's number-one stop on a West Bank visit.
Followed by the visit of Hatshepsut. The Temple is magnificently situated at the foot of the sheer cliffs fringing the desert hills. The temple itself was also partly hewn from the rock. Here Queen Hatshepsut had herself represented with the attributes of a male pharaoh (beard and short apron) to demonstrate that she possessed all the authority of a king.
Finishing with the immense Colossi of Memnon. The statue emitted a musical note at sunrise and this gave rise to the myth that Memnon was greeting his mother, Eos, with this soft, plaintive note.
After lunch, you will visit the East bank starting with Karnak Temple. The temple complex of Karnak is not built to a single unified plan. It represents the building activity of many successive rulers, which became the most important of Egypt's temples during the New Kingdom.
Followed by Luxor Temple visit that was built first by Amenophis III and was dedicated to Amun.
After dinner, you are invited to Belly Dance & Dervish show in the Bar.
The cruise overnight in Luxor.
Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Karnak Sound and light show
Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.
Day 4 - Luxor
You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check out. You will be transferred to Luxor airport, or Luxor railway station, by our representative who will help you with your luggage before your final departure.
Optional Trip: You may choose to enjoy a city tour riding a horse carriage
Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.
Included
Meet and assist service upon arrival & departure
Assistance of our personal during your stay and excursions
All transfers by a modern air-conditioned deluxe vehicle
3 nights Accommodation on board 5 star cruise on full board basis
All Nile Cruise excursions as mentioned in the itinerary
Entrance fees to all sights between Luxor and Aswan
Egyptologist guide during your excursions
All service charges and taxes
Excluded
Any extras and personal expenses
Tipping kitty
Any services are not mentioned in the inclusion
Entry fees inside Tutankhamen Tomb, Nefertari, or Seti I Tomb in Luxor or any site with special entrance fees.
Optional trips
Policies
Children policy: -
a. Children from 06 to 11.99 years and sharing in parent's cabin (with an extra bed) are granted a 50% discount on the adult rate (per person in double rates). Jaz Cruises must be informed in advance for children traveling with their parents to grant this discount.
b. Children under 12 years staying in the separate cabin than parents are charged full rates.
c. Children below 5.99 years in parent's cabin are free of charge.
d. Noting that a maximum number of children in the cabin is one.
Itinerary (Possible Changes):
The Cruise reserves the right to amend the day-to-day itinerary as required by the Nile Authority, and or due to lock opening/closing times, rail and road bridge opening/closing times and the level of water in the Nile.
Such changes will be notified in advance whenever possible or on a day-to-day basis if necessary, during a cruise with Tour Leader/ Guide lecture or ship manage might cruising will be avoided.
Cancellation Policy:
A. Cancellation will be accepted without penalties provided a written notice is received 30 days prior to the requested sailing date.
B. Cancellation fees will be levied according to the following conditions:
• If cancellation is received 29-22 days prior to sailing date, 25% of the total amount will be charged.
• If cancellation is received 21 -15 days prior to sailing date, 50% of the total amount will be charged.
• If cancellation is received 14 - 08 days prior to sailing date, 75% of the total amount will be charged.
• If cancellation is received 07 or lease days prior to sailing date, 90% of the total amount will be charged.
• In case of 24 hours cancellation or no show, 100% cancellation fees will be charged.
