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Nile Holiday offers high quality escorted Egypt Tours, Travel packages and River Nile Cruises. Our Egypt Tailor Made Holidays provide exceptional value, saving our customers time and money
Luxor, Egypt

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2024

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Sally M
San Bruno, CA20 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2020
This was the kind of Egyptian travel experience I had dreamed about, and it really was a dream come true. Khaled's attention to detail and commitment to us having a hassle free trip became apparent at every turn. We were met at the airports by greeters, shuttled in private cars and provided with personal tour guides who's english language skills were only surpassed by their knowledge of Egyptology. I felt totally taken care of, even pampered most of the trip. Below I will go into more detail, but in briefly my advice. Travel to Egypt with this company, you will be amazed.
Our tour guide for 3 days in Cairo was Mohamed Maher El-Shaer. He was very dedicated to teaching us the history of Egypt, and he was flexible in giving us options of where we could eat or shop, catering to our preferences during the tours. As we were a group of 2, he organized the tour times to avoid the big bus crowds whenever possible and I feel we got much more time at the sites as a result. I truly enjoyed his sense of humor, and couldn't see the name "Queen Hatshepsut " for the rest of our tour without thinking "Queen Hotchickensoup" All joking aside, he also kept us from being hassled by salesmen pushing postcards and trinkets. This is no small feat at the Giza Pyramids. Speaking of the pyramids, our hotel in Cairo was Le Meridien Pyramids . We could see them from our room balcony. Also of note, our driver in Cairo and Alexandria was Said El Knaywe. The traffic here is crazy, but he navigated it with a calm professional attitude which made me feel very safe.
Our next stop was Luxor. Here we picked up our guide for the next 7 days of the trip Walid Noaman. His passion for history comes through on all the tours we took, and his mindfulness in dealing with any situation which we came across impressed both myself and my brother. Our trip would not have been half as good without his teachings and guidance on cultural issues. In Luxor we stayed at Steigenberger Nile Palace, another stunning setting with a balcony overlooking the Nile and great food. We took 2 add on tours, the sunrise Hot Air Balloon, and the Nobles/Workers tombs. Both of these are very much worth adding on. To finish up we cruised to Aswan on MS. Nile Premium Nile Cruise. The boat was very clean, the staff personable and food good. Watching the Nile flow by from our cabin river was sweet.
Written February 4, 2020
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Diane L
Catania, Italy20 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2019 • Friends
I worked with Khaled via e-mail to create an itinerary for myself and my 80 year old mother. He was very helpful and able to make additions and changes for us even during our trip. We toured Cairo, did a 7 night Nile cruise to visit many of the amazing sites around Luxor and Aswan, to include a flight to see the incredible Abu Simbel Temple, and finished with a relaxing couple of days in Sharm el Sheikh. Mohamed, our guide in Cairo, and Emad, who was with us throughout our Nile cruise, were so kind and caring! They were so careful with my mom, helping her everywhere and bringing her cough drops when she got sick. Besides these two wonderful gentlemen, there were numerous drivers, guides, and greeters to meet us and walk us through every step of the way. It was a perfect bucket list trip!
Written January 12, 2020
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Faith
Philippines1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020 • Friends
We had a customized 6-day tour to Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel for a group of 5. The tour included transport, tickets, and tour guides. We opted to book our own hotels.

They were extremely helpful and everything was organized really well. They were very flexible and accommodating. For our group, we decided to pay individually and they accepted payment in both credit card and cash. They even have change ready. So efficient.

When we arrived in Cairo, their representative was waiting for us at the airport and took as to our hotel. We toured Alexandria and Cairo in a private van. They arranged for sleeper train to Luxor, and we were dropped off at the train station where another representative met us to give us our tickets and assist us in boarding. At the Luxor train station we were fetched by Khaled and our tour guide. We toured Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel in a private van as well. On our last day, they arranged for transport to the airport from our hotel and had one of their representatives assist us at the Abu Simbel airport.

Their vans were spacious and comfortable. The drivers, especially Hassan, made sure we were ferried safely throughout.

If you plan to visit Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel strongly recommend Mr. Ahmed Azab. He's very knowledgeable and passionate about Egyptian history, can read and write in hieroglyphics, made sure we understood what he talked about, and answered all our questions. He gave us water bottles daily and went out of his way for our needs. He's just the absolute best, kindest, most patient, and most professional tour guide ever.
Written March 1, 2020
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Way's Checklist
San Jose, Costa Rica1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2021
This private 9 day tour was an amazing experience!!

The booking experience was very good and very responsive to customize my tour, reply to questions and providing the first payment.

During the tour, we saw incredible things and we learn A LOT, definitely having a guide with you at all times is mandatory, otherwise you lose a lot of learning and context about the temples and tombs. All our guides spoke perfect Spanish as requested.

About the logistics, they handle everything for you, since you arrive to the airport there's a person who will get your visa, bags, immigration forms, everything you need in no time.

This tour included Cairo, Aswan, a Nile cruise and Luxor, and my family and I loved it! For context we travel 2 people in their 40s and 2 in their mid 20s

I would do it again!
Written December 29, 2021
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Dear Valuable Guest, We can't thank you enough for writing such an amazing review and for spending your valuable time describing your adventure with us. You were truly exceptional guests to our travel agency and it was truly our pleasure to customize this trip for you. The Whole team of "Nile Holiday" wish you all the best of luck and we are waiting for your upcoming trip to the land of pharaohs with some special offers for you as you are no longer normal customers of our travel agency, but, you joined the list of our best friends. Wish you all the best of luck.
Written December 30, 2021
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Kevin R
Lagos5 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2021
We had an excellent trip where everything was very well arranged. Good transport, great guides and drivers and good accommodation.
There was almost zero tourists due to Covid so this is actually the best time ever to visit. Nobody anywhere so a pleasure to visit all the sites.
This company clearly has an excellent group of experts to call on and both our guides were excellent. The guy at the airport was also amazing.
The Nile trip was also perfect, boats running at 50% capacity with attentive crew who genuinely pleased to see some tourists back.
Its not the cheapest trip but the customer service is excellent.
The only negative was the constant requirement to tip everybody, we had an armed guard( not requested or needed) drivers, the cruise crew and a constant stream of tradesman encouraged by our guides. I would like to have just given one tip to the guide to sort out everybody else and some firm guidance on what a sensible tip would be.
All in all brilliant go before it gets busy again!
Written May 19, 2021
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Dear Valuable Guest, We can't thank you enough for writing such an amazing review and for spending your valuable time describing your adventure with us. You were truly exceptional guests to our travel agency and it was truly our pleasure to customize this trip for you. The Whole team of "Nile Holiday" wish you all the best of luck and we are waiting for your upcoming trip to the land of pharaohs with some special offers for you as you are no longer normal customers of our travel agency, but, you joined the list of our best friends. Wish you all the best of luck.
Written October 19, 2021
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kaboom814
Bucharest, Romania18 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2021
Part as the second organised group we had made with the help of Nile Cruise Holiday. Starting with Nile Cruise for 4 days and 3 nights where the services provided were excellent (not to mention the food on the boat as well), Walid, our guide for this 4 days is an excellent guide, very friendly person and his knowledge about Egypt history is overwhelming.
The trips provided by Nile Cruise while we were in Hurghada: Snorkeling (highly recomended) and Desert Jeep 4x4 Safari ( so-so, you could prepare yourself with high dose of patience due to fact they lack equipment versus amount of people that are having the trip)
While in Cairo, our guide, Ahmed, our second best guide in this trip, very calm person and very helpfull with everything that the group demanded
All in all I would choose Nile Cruise for our next group tarveling there. Thank you for all the help and services provided
Written November 25, 2021
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Hello Dear Kaboom814, Have a nice Day Thank you so much for sharing your views and experience with Nile Holiday. We are so pleased to see how happy you are with your 2nd trip. Your review is highly appreciated and is very important to us and the community of whom are thinking about travelling soon. Thank you again!
Written December 25, 2021
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Road14250
London, UK3 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020
I have no hesitation in recommending Nile Holidays. Khaled provided us with a tailor-made & good value tour to suit the needs of our group. He replied clearly & promptly to all e- mails during the planning period and gave us everything we asked for and more,. The tour ran smoothly as representatives were always in place to support us when needed. The guide and the Princess Hanna staff were brilliant & went out of their way to make our holiday a special experience for our group.
Written February 24, 2020
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Aya F
4 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2023 • Solo
Searching farah cruise, one of the Nile cruise ships, researvation, I found Nile Holiday. They offered less expensive price for the ship than official website (3 nights 4 days cruise, from Aswan to Luxor). The operation manager, Khaled, responded emails promptly and proposed me with the price and variety of optional tours. He also asked me the evaluations/opinions of each guide on-site, which I felt he tried to arrange the suitable guides. Nile cruise was also flexible to change plans upon late arrival to Luxor and notified the guide on-site so that my new itinerary was conducted very smoothly.
Written April 2, 2023
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travellingsharon
London, UK26 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2023
Khaled at Nile Holiday arranged a 10 day private tour of Egypt for myself and my 10 year old son. We started in Cairo and ended up in Aswan. I first emailed Nile Holiday outlining what we would like to see/do in Egypt. Khaled put a very thorough itinerary together for us which suited our needs perfectly. Khaled always responded quickly to any questions that we had and communication was very easy.

We felt very looked after during our entire time in Egypt from stepping off of the plane in Cairo until our drop off at Aswan airport for our return flight back to London. All of our Guides and drivers were outstanding. The vehicles were immaculately clean and comfortable and all were air conditioned. Water was also available in the vehicles. We also did a 4 night Nile Cruise on MS Movenpick Royal Lily which we would highly recommend.

Once in Egypt we were able to easily communicate with Khaled via Whatsap if we had any questions and our calls were quickly returned.

Once we decided to book with Nile Holiday all that was requested was a small deposit. The balance of our holiday was payable when we arrived in Egypt. As this is not normally how the UK Tour companies operate, wanting 100% payment immediately, I was a little bit worried but I had no need to be. Everything went perfectly. In fact, Khaled didn't even collect our final payment until 5 days into our trip while we were in Luxor. A UK Tour Operator would never be that trusting. I also want to say that many UK Tour companies, ie: Cox and Kings, etc, were not even flexible with what itinerary we wanted in our private tour. We wanted to do the overnight sleeper train from Cairo to Luxor and many UK Tour Operators REFUSED to include that in our itinerary. They were also charging outrageous prices for what we ended up getting from Nile Holiday.

Booking with Khaled was such a benefit as Khaled lives in Egypt and knows exactly how everything operates. He has been in business for a long time and his knowledge is invaluable to giving us the perfect holiday. My son and I were so sad to leave Egypt as we really did have the vacation of a lifetime.

I also want to mention that Egypt is a very safe place to visit. Not once did we ever feel unsafe and having a guide with us made our holiday seamless.

We would recommend Khaled and Nile Holiday to anyone that is thinking of visiting Egypt. You will not be disappointed.
Written April 10, 2023
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Huntingdon1701
London, UK172 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2022
Khaled helped us customise the our 11 day cruise tour with some extra experiences and kept us updated with all arrangements - and generously carried over our deposit when Covid-19 meant the holiday took place two years later than planned.

We were greeted at the airport before baggage claim and helped through the visa process and security checks - this happened at every airport arrival/departure, including internal flights, and was very helpful.

Our guide in Cairo was Ahmed and Walid covered the cruise from Luxor to Aswan. Both were qualified egyptologists and knew everything about everything we saw. They made sure we got the best spots for photos, skipped around crowded queues, and were able to get water and snacks whenever needed.

All cars were of excellent quality, including air conditioning, and the drivers were very good as well as friendly.

Our cruise ship was the Queen of Hansa, picked by Nile Holiday, and the cabins were among the best I've seen (on 15+ ocean cruises). Dining was very varied and delicious. The crew were very friendly and helpful and would sort anything you asked for. We stayed at Barcelo Pyramids Cairo Hotel and Le Passage Hotel in Cairo (the latter was amazing and handy for the airport), and Aracan Eatabe hotel in Luxor. This was perfectly positioned for seeing the two temples and for boarding the cruise, and is somewhere I'd consider for a holiday in its own right.

Every single element of the holiday was perfect and Khaled of Nile Holiday ensured we had the smoothest imaginable experience. Don't hesitate to book your holiday with him!
Written April 30, 2022
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Hello Dear Huntingdon1701, Have a nice Day We can't thank you enough for writing such an amazing review and for spending your valuable time describing your 11 days adventure with us. You were truly exceptional guests to our travel agency and it was truly our pleasure to customize this trip for you. The Whole team of "Nile Holiday" wish you all the best of luck and we are waiting for your upcoming trip to Egypt with some special offers for you as you are no longer normal customers of our travel agency, but, you joined the list of our best friends. Wish you all the best of luck.
Written May 6, 2022
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