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4 Days Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor including Abu Simbel and Hot Air Balloon

★4.7(623 reviews)Luxor4 daysPickup availableFree cancellation
4 Days Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor including Abu Simbel and Hot Air Balloon
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Overview

Experience Egypt’s ancient history with a Nile cruise. Journeying between Aswan and Luxor allows you to relax while soaking in the picturesque scenery of the Nile Valley. You'll also have the chance to visit legendary sites, including Karnak Temple, Luxor Temple, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Colossi of Memnon, Philae Temple, the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, Abu Simbel Temple, and many more historical treasures

What's included

  • Hot air balloon ride with a flight certificate
  • Visit to Abu Simbel Temple in a small group setting (Shared Tour)
  • Experienced, qualified tour guide
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • 3-night stay aboard a 5-star cruise boat
  • Breakfast
  • Horse-drawn carriage or Bus Ride in Edfu, including a visit to the Horus Temple
  • All transfers to and from the temples

Not included

  • Tipping (Recommended - 10 US$ pe rperson per night for the Boat Crew, Drivers and Tour Guide))
  • Entrance Fees to all sites and Temples mentioned

Good to know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
  • If the Hot Air Balloon trip cancelled due to bad weather or any other reason, you will be refunded with 25 USD per person.
  • Camera is not allowed on the balloon basket, you can only use your cellphone to take pictures.
  • Children under the age of 6 years are not allowed for the balloon trip.
  • Prices are quoted in U.S dollars, per person per trip and valid, except during Christmas, New Year and Easter holidays.
  • We drop off all our customers to Luxor east bank hotels and available to drive them to Luxor west bank hotels with extra 10 us dollars per person at the end of the Cruise Trip
  • We pick up all our guests from Aswan east bank hotels and available to pick up from west bank hotels with extra 10 us dollars per person
  • For Trips starts on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, The visit of Abu Simbel temples will be skipped and replaced by Habu Temple visit in Luxor
  • All bookings for 3 persons, will be accommodated in 1 Cabin (Room)
  • For bookings of 2 adults and 2 children aged between 2 and 11.99 years, one triple room (with three beds) will be provided.
  • The horse carriage experience to Edfu Temple may not always be guaranteed and could be subject to change due to safety considerations

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Traveller reviews

4.7★623 reviews

Best tour ever!

Not only the view but also our guide was amazing! He taught us really well step by step.Thank you so much for wonderful experience!!

X6311EW_ · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Best cruises

For my graduation trip, I booked this cruise because I wanted to visit Egypt's World Heritage Sites. The ship was comfortable and the cabin was comfortable. I highly recommend it because it is the shortest and most labor-intensive way to get around Egypt on a cruise ship!

原田瞬 · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor · Translated

Nike river cruise.

This is a great tour staying in Aswan and finishing in Luxor. Don’t have to worry about anything and see some of the great ancient sites along the Nile. Khaled is a great host. His background is in Egyptology. So his knowledge of the Egyptian sites is unmatched.

16bradyc · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Nile Cruise review

We had an excellent time on our Nile cruise - the staff were all incredible and made our journey extremely enjoyable. Our room was super comfortable, surprisingly big and the bedding was excellent. A big shoutout to our guide Talaat Abdo - whose passion and insight into Egyptian culture and history was the true highlight of this tour. Talaat was not only an engaging guide at all the incredible sites you visit on the itinerary, but also went out of his way to ensure everyone in our group had everything they needed for the journey. We really appreciate the vast resources at his disposal and his ability to ensure each day ran smoothly. The itinerary is very packed so keep this in mind if you want to have time to relax - lots of early mornings but this ensures you are able to see all the major attractions. Not a lot of time actually sailing so you could easily do a two night cruise instead of the three and do activities before in Aswan or after in Luxor if they aren’t included. Overall we were very pleased with the experience - especially considering we are not cruise people! The value is excellent considering what is included, the rooms themselves, the food and the lovely staff. A lot goes into making sure tourists and travellers get to see a large chunk of Egypt (and extremely comfortably) so please be sure if you do this cruise to thank the staff for their efforts - even better to do so in their language. Shukran to Talaat and the whole team on the Nile Bride.

Sightseer06629052096 · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Fantastic Nile Cruise.

We had Talaat Abdo for our three nights cruise and he was an absolute g. So knowledgeable and friendly and also great at managing the group and time at temples so there was plenty of time to explore or ask more questions. Our best tour experience of our Egypt trip. Our ship the Nile Bride was also really good.

375mmmmmmmmmmmm · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Excellent

Mr Khaled El Saady was an excellent tour guide, he helped us with everything that we needed. I recommend him when you come to Egypt.

151camilor · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Great experience

It was great experience for us and we enjoyed everything our toyr guide was Talaat Abdo he was agreat tour guide so expertise and told us many stories about the Egyptian history i really highly recommend him he made our trip

seungnamk2021 · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Excellent

Wonderful Journey! and a good guider! The guide gave explanation So the every person were happy moreover the cruise crews were kind to their job

seungnamk2021 · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor

Beautiful experience

We did our tour with Talaat abdo and it was beautiful. We saw beautiful places and hope to return as soon as possible

Anais M · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor · Translated

A must-see tour, the super interesting and magestuous places

Very beautiful places, sailing on the Nile has been a fabulous experience, with incredible scenery. The contrast of the Nile desert and vegetation is amazing. On the Cruise I can say that in general well just some details,. There was NO guide in Abu Simbel and no information about the place to visit. The cruise is fine, but a couple of things to improve. The box lunch was quite poor, only bread that had almost no cheese or ham, and they did not include for example banana only the last. The excellent Luxor guide, everything very well explained helped us a lot. The lunch we had in Luxor was also excellent.

Carol Y · Feb 2025 · via Tripadvisor · Translated

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