M/Y Alexander The Great Nile Cruise - 4 Nights Every Monday From Luxor - 3 Nights Every Friday from Aswan

The restaurant is good.

I would like to mention our tour guide Anton (Antoun or Anton). His English was poor, which made it difficult for us to understand the history of Egyptian civilization that he narrated. In addition, the unprofessionalism he displayed throughout the trip worried us. Our dissatisfaction is mainly centered on the following areas: Poorly organized itinerary: upon arrival at Aswan airport, we expected to be able to go straight to the cruise ship for a break, but were immediately put on a schedule instead. We found that the guide was just trying to get through the basic itinerary as quickly as possible so that he could have more time to sell us additional paid packages. Forced to buy extra packages: The guide was constantly pushing extra self-pay packages "every day", whether it was during meals, on the car, while relaxing on the deck or resting in our room, he kept bothering us and stressed us out with the prices of these packages which were more than twice the market price. Rushed tours: each tour was rushed and time was squeezed so that the guide could push for more extra optional tours. Store sales push: we were taken to expensive stores with no other tourists, we were not asked for our opinion nor reminded of the prices, we were forced to spend money. And when we needed to buy sim cards, the guide intentionally didn't take us to buy them (because they are not sold in Aswan airport), resulting in us having no internet for the first two days. Tipping issues: despite the fact that we had paid a reasonable tip based on the information on the internet, the guide was still not satisfied and even said "I told you that the exchange rate is now 55 Egyptian pounds for 1 euro, you are giving too little"!

The boat is excellent. Happy staff and value for money.

Unfortunately, our boat required unexpected repair, but the company, prior to our arrival, managed to put us on a different boat of equal if not better quality. We set sail on the Sonesta Moon Goddess, which was fabulous.

Nothing that comes to the main

Lovely clean ship with helpful staff

food was good but breakfast could be improved with more fresh fruit. non-alcoholic drink selection needs to be improved

we booked a Nile cruise on the Alexander but due to a malfunctioning air conditioning Michel seamlessly booked us on the Moon Goddess instead. the ship was wonderful and the food was good, staff exemplary and very friendly. our assigned guide Mr Hamed was a Master Egyptologist and took great care of us. His knowledge was encyclopedic and encompassed Egyptology and political events spanning decades. he also had a very good sense of humor and knew someone everywhere we visited. we highly recommend him!! All in all an excellent trip, big thank you to Michel and Mr Hamed for taking such good care of us!

The staff are wonderful, everyone is super friendly and tries hard to help. The restaurant crew in particular are attentive and efficient. The service runs like a well-oiled machine. Dining was a mixed bag, the buffet lunches, featuring Egyptian style food were delicious and excellent. In contrast the dinners were disappointing, featuring a multi course “European” style menu which was adequate but not brilliant. Excursions were good and Hamid the tour guide is extremely knowledgeable and experienced.

The ship is tired and dated, by no means a luxury cruise. Unfortunately not enough time is spent cruising the Nile and too much time (every night and a few days) moored alongside, generally 3 ships deep in Luxor, Edfu and Aswan. This means one has to traverse the other vessels to get to the Alexander. Given the temperatures in Egypt all ships’ Aircon etc are powered on 24x7 and there are generators running everywhere. Air quality while moored up is terrible and it doesn’t really improve much when under way as the vessels seem to run extremely smoky heavy fuel oil. I believe there are around 200 ships plying the river between Luxor and Aswan, which has many sugar plantations many of which seem to be continuously burning off the sugar cane stubble etc. The air pollution was quite depressing.

Great food and very kind and flexible crew. The guide was excellent and very knowledgeable.

Information on the itinerary of the cruise program was sparse but all that was promised was kept and the guided tours were very good.