I have been attempting to make a reservation with Abela http://www.sleepingtrains.com/ for the sleeper train roundtrip from Cairo to Luxor during New Years week for almost 2 months now. Multiple emails and faxes had gone unanswered.
I then retained a travel agent who informed me that Abela does not take reservations longer than 2 weeks from departure. 14 days prior to departure they were told that reservations were not being taken yet, then finally 12 days before departure they were informed that the trains were are sold out. They found out that all tickets had been sold to a group of travel agents a month prior to departure.These other travel agents are not willing to part with the tickets for "any" price.
Does anyone have any ideas for getting to Luxor since Egypt Air flights are sold out/very expensive?





