Luxor (Egypt)

Advantages: overwhelming
Disadvantages: none

...us from Frankfurt/Main directly to Luxor in Upper Egypt where we landed at 1 am the following morning due to a delay at departure, when we finally hit the hay it was 2 am! The view from the balcony of our hotel room some hours later rewarded us for the trouble: after winter-grey Germany eye-hurting, bright sunshine, palm trees on the bank of the Nile, cruisers and feluccas - Egyptian sailing-boats - on the glittering river! Why do tourists go to ...
...taken to the temple of Luxor 3 km away through an alleyway flanked by rows of sphinxes with the bodies of lions and the heads of rams - a short stretch of which can still be seen in Karnak. Simple folks were not allowed to enter the temples proper, the first forecourt was the farthest they could get. According to our Egyptian guide the site of the temple mirrored the area around Karnak, the main axis being the Nile, the columns, smaller temples, ... Read review

Advantages: The Peace and Quiet
Disadvantages: Having to come back home

...private island, 4 km from Luxor surrounded by the beautiful and clear River Nile. Prices at Portland Direct for the same two weeks Bed and Breakfast in May 2006 are £389 per adult and £327 for first child. Movenpick was founded in 1948 and employs 13,600 people around the world, it is a Swiss Hotel chain with 53 hotels in nineteen countries. The one we are going to was built in the early eighties. The flight was on time and we landed 4hrs 45mins ...
...different Hotels around and in Luxor so we arrived 1hr 10 minutes later. While driving through Luxor you can spot quite a few Police and Army sentry points strategically placed and scattered all around the city quite comforting really as they are there mainly for us tourists. After dropping off all but seven of us we headed 4 km out of the city towards Crocodile Island we turned right from the main road and stopped at a checkpoint and within seconds ... Read review

Advantages: Independent travel
Disadvantages: No tour guide descriptions

...to recommend anyone travelling to Luxor to arrange themselves a trip around the Luxor West Bank using a local Luxor taxi. I have visited Egypt on 3 occasions now as a backpacker and the taxi trip to the west bank has always been one of the highlights for me. You really get to travel around not only at your leisure but in the company of a real local resident making himself a proper living. Your money will not be going to a tour company, it will be ...
...bridge to the south of Luxor and firstly stop at the ticket booth area. Tickets to all the West Bank attractions are bought at the same place. The driver will then take you to all of your choices and wait for you in the taxi rank at each spot. A quick note on West bank tickets. Like I said above, tickets to all West bank sites are bought at the same place which is on a junction spot just past the Colossi on Memnon . There are some intricacies to ... Read review

Advantages: Hot Weather, History
Disadvantages: Hassle

...mum and I went to Luxor at the beginning of this year after getting a really good deal, we paid just over £300 for 7 nights half board accommodation with Cosmos staying at the St Joseph’s hotel. I have broken this review into sections and please bear in mind that is based only on my experiences. Anything that I have not covered please feel free to ask about and I will attempt to answer. HISTORY ********* As you are aware Egypt is full of ...
...Pyramids if you go to Luxor you will not see any Pyramids. However, most tour operators do organise trips to see the Pyramids as well as most of the sites which I mention below. A word of advice, before committing yourself to booking with your tour operator take time to go down towards the Old Winter Palace where you will find quite a few local tour operator’s who undercut the big tour operators quite substantially. For example a ½ day trip ... Read review

Advantages: Experience of a Lifetime
Disadvantages: Heat, Dust and Flies

Luxor is a must to visit if you enjoy sight-seeing holidays, also if you have any interest in Egyptology, this is the place for you. In order to visit such a beautiful country you will require a Visa, purchased from the Egyptian embassy in London. You will need to send your passport to London and they will send you your passport via the post stamped and ready to go, for around £10 to £20 quid. (It was in 1999 when I visited, prices may have changed) ...
...very quickly, and enjoy what Luxor has to offer. The majority of hotels are close together. with in walking distance of one another, they are clean and airy, friendly staff are eager to help and are very pleasent. I wondered if this was to ensure that they got a bashees,(tip) when your stay was over. I stayed at the Winter Palace Hotel which over looks the Nile. This hotel I would give a five star rating to, for its cleanliness and service. As ... Read review

Advantages: Better than my dream, romance, culture
Disadvantages: The troubled Middle East

...A Childhood Desire ***************** “You can open your eyes now and see your Christmas present!” I dutifully obeyed, and saw the old Ford Fiesta belonging to a friend parked outside our house, gift wrapped in pink ribbon and tinsel. My heart sank as I tried in vain to hide my utter disappointment. For sure, I’d been complaining about my own old, unreliable MGB, but it was far superior to this heap of junk that I assumed Morty had bought from our friend as my Christmas present. “Look closer” he said “Open the envelope” I hadn’t noticed the envelope wedged behind the windscreen wipers, for the barely held back tears of distress welling up in my eyes. Inside, to my sheer delight was a ten day holiday to Luxor and Cairo in Egypt, booked and paid for. Departure in eight days time... Read review

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Advantages: A very good Tourist Attraction
Disadvantages: Some horse excreta along promenade but nothing serious

.... There was a monastery which you can rent donkeys to climb up the mountain to the monastery. It is also breath taking but not as much as the treasury because it is so amazing. There are also other archaelogical digs such as temples and other things like that which are also very interesting. I recommend that you see this when you ever go to Jordan because it should be one of the seven wonders of the world. I could possibly compare it to the pyramids of giza and the temples of Luxor in Egypt. One complaint is how they allow horses to ride down the promenade. This disrupts the walking and the quietness and also there is horse excretion as you walk along which smells and isn't very pleasant to look at. This is a mild complaint and it shouldn't rally affect your choice of going to Jordan because that would jsut be stupid. So if you are wondering... Read review

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Advantages: Good inflight entertainment, friendly service.
Disadvantages: Inconvenient intermediate stops, bad meals, rather expensive.

...767, 777 and 747 Jumbos. For this purpose British Mediterranean operate a fleet of single aisle Airbus 320 planes which have been fitted with extra fuel tanks and a cabin interior suitable for intercontinental flights. They serve the following destinations: CAUCASUS & CENTRAL ASIA: Baku (Azerbaijan) Bishkek (Kyrgystan), via Tbilisi Tbilisi (Georgia) Yerevan (Armenia), via Tbilisi MIDDLE EAST: Aleppo (Syria) Alexandria (Egypt) Amman (Jordan) Beirut (Lebanon) Damascus (Syria) Luxor (Egypt) Tehran (Iran), via Baku Although British Mediterranean operate several routes with intermediate stops in Baku and Tbilisi, you cannot book the onward segments alone, say from Tbilisi to Yerevan or from Baku to Tehran. That's because BA have not negotiated so called "beyond rights” or "third freedom rights” with these countries which... Read review

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