Egypt Experience

Egypt Travel with Ramses tours

Advantages: ILIKED EVERY THING
Disadvantages: TEH SELLERS EVERY WHERE

Hello! We (my husband, our 10 year old son and I) spent 8 days in Egypt in early August, 2007. After months of trawling around Travel Agents, none of who could offer my perfect package, I discovered a company called Ramses tours on the internet. From day one they were fantastic. I told them what I wanted to do and they were so accommodating. I could start my trip around Egypt any day of the week, so I could really hold out for the cheapest flights. ...
...a cruise ship on day 2. I assumed they would leave on set days - but apparently not. Ramses Tours booked in my sleeper train from Aswan to Cairo and an internal flight to Hurghada form Cairo. They also created an individual itinery for us and included all sights that we were keen to see, including booking us on a hot air balloon ride over Luxor and the Valley of the Kings I changed all Train travel to Air travel and requested to stay in the Le ...

superstar154 22.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of General: Egypt

Hurghada, try to get snowed in here...

Advantages: Always sunny, great people, beautiful surrounding.
Disadvantages: Quite costly, too commercial to some peoples taste.

...you might make. ---------Introduction--------- Hurghada is a coastal town in Egypt, that stretches for about 30 miles along the shore, but does not really go deep into the desert, a perfect town for tourism, and the battle for pieces of private beach by hotels have made this town so wide I think, because offering your guests a calm spot on a private beach, how is that not attractive right? I have been in the town, during Ramadan, I have been coraldiving, ...
...in the greatest hotel you can get for your money. -------------Going There-------------- Flying from the Netherlands, and ofcourse that gives trouble if you do NOT have a passport, which, at that time, I did not. Egypt is in Africa, and you should be well aware of that. First of all, you will need an injection, because getting sick there is not too hard. After alot of hassle, rebooking ( we missed the flight ) and going abroad to fly the day after ...

GerlofL 23.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Hurghada (Egypt)

Sailing Through The Desert

Advantages: Winter sunshine combined with culture and comfort
Disadvantages: Terrorist threats can deter some visitors but the Egyptians are security aware

...statues of Ramesees 11 at Abu Simbel. Once the High Dam was built, an amazing feat by Soviet engineers, the Nubian Desert began to slowly fill with Nile waters, an estimated time of six years, when the Egyptian government sent out a worldwide plea for help as the lake was forming faster than at first thought and it was evident that the Temple at Abu Simbel would be swallowed up by the rising waters. An international team of around three thousand ...
...several ancient temples, before reaching Abu Simbel where we were to stay for two nights then on our return to Aswan we would visit more ancient monuments on the other side of the Lake. The gradual build up to the main event, our arrival at Abu Simbel, was in itself exciting. The scenery once we set sail was beautiful. The blue waters of Lake Nasser were set in sharp contrast to the surrounding mountainous desert on either shoreline. All the large ...

mornev 18.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Abu Simbel (Egypt)

A Royal Cruise fit for a Pharaoh,

Advantages: Treated like Royalty from Beginning to end.
Disadvantages: Bar prices are steep.

SS Misr. The SS Misr was built in Preston Lancashire in 1918 originally for the Egyptian Royal Navy and bought by King Farouk of Egypt as a private cruiser which traversed the Nile. It is recorded that he had held his birthday celebrations aboard this boat. Since the building of the Aswan Dam it used to sail right up the Nile but now is only able to sail as far as Aswan. Misr means the Kingdom of Egypt. It fell into disrepair and was brought ...
...in elegant and period style and is used exclusively by Voyages Jules Verne for tours of the Nile. Being a steam ship it rekindles memories of Agatha Christie’s death on the Nile. It offers elegant and tasteful luxury service and there are over 60 members of staff to 46 passengers. There were only 42 passengers on our cruise. The ship has three decks and is 62 meters in length. There are two boilers and two steam engines which produce 4.2 tons of ...

garymarsh86 25.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of SS. Misr Cruise, Voyages Jules Verne

Time for a full body detox? maybe taba's ur thing

Advantages: beautiful, peaceful, private and reguvinating
Disadvantages: none existant night life shopping, and travelling to and from

Ever looked at a postcard of a beach and thought id love to be there, well this is one of those beaches; clear, clean, beautiful blue water, and beautiful sand. And if privacy is your thing they well this is definitely for your thing, i am one to enjoy kicking back with a great novel and relaxing, and this was definitely what i got from Taba. Almost felt like i had my own strip of beach that i could walk up and down and meet the occasional friendly ...
...a but. It is not all great, the downsides to this resort; firstly its a resort so as you can imagine there is a lack of culture and native people, so if your going to do a little historical traveling then this is a pass. Also the food is well, not for everyone,i have a mother from Egypt, yet i still found it difficult to enjoy the food. ...

gr33narrow 13.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Taba, Egypt