5-Day Nile Cruise: Luxor to Aswan with Hot Air Balloon and Iconic Temples Tour

Embark on a splendid 4-night cruise on the Nile, exploring Egyptian culture, on a 5-star journey from Luxor to Aswan. Tour remarkable temples with a guide, and partake in a hot air balloon ride, with full-board accommodation included. All transport will be provided in air-conditioned vehicles.

Duration: 5 days
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Pick up & Karnak temple & Luxor temple & Felucca Ride & Boarding on the cruise

Temple of Karnak - Begin in the morning with a pickup from your accommodation in Luxor, after meeting your professional Egyptologist to start your trip by visiting the Karnak temple, It was built as a cult temple and was dedicated to the gods Amun, Mut, and khon. Being…

What's Included
  • 4 nights in a 5-star cruise with full-board
  • Professional private Egyptologist guide
  • Felucca ride on the Nile
  • All-inclusive meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • Convenient hotel pickups and drop-offs
  • Comfortable cabin with all necessary facilities
  • Tours as mentioned in the itinerary
  • Professional licensed driver for all transports
What's Not Included
  • Drop-off at Aswan airport or train station (20 USD extra)
  • Drinks (Including water)
  • Entrance fees
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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A8403fnclarad
Feb 16, 2026
Very good - The tour of the Valley of Kings with the guide Mohamed Ayman was very friendly, attentive, and dynamic I recommend!
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Mathieu
Feb 14, 2026
Thank you Gabriel! - Boat and cabin very clean and totally renovated ( Nile Saray ). Well-trained organization except communication between the boat and Nice tour causing delays that could have been avoided. Guide at the top (except those who do not travel to temples to give us the explanations which was a shame (Valley of kings)). Many thanks to Andrew (Philae, Abu Simbel) / Gabriel (really top and passionate) ( Karnak) and Georges (Nubian village) for their great explanations and availability, do not hesitate to ask them!
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Wendy
Feb 11, 2026
Special thanks to my local guides Andro, Ahmed and Remon Nagy Shaker. They made my trip perfect. - My cabin was upgraded to luxury. Nice tour massaged me every day for the next day schedule and asked how I was doing everyday. Their local guides and private drivers were so helpful and knowledgeable. They made my first Egypt visit so easy and fun. I recommend them to everyone.
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Justinsx1144ze
Jan 19, 2026
#1 Luxor tour guide - Ramon was the best tour guide i’ve had so far in Egypt and he was very knowledgeable about all temples and everything in Luxor had a great time. Would recommend it to anybody.
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Maps27861329501
Nov 25, 2025
All right, thanks. - Ammar and heba excellent would do it all again very well explained much xonizes history with the Valley of the Dead and Karnak
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Sightseer31668980085
Oct 29, 2025
Would not recommend 5 day nile cruise - Would not recommend the 5 day nile cruise with Nice Tours. Maybe they are more used to organising the 3 day or 4 day cruise but the 5 day cruise was poorly organised with poor communication and sometimes with serious mistakes. Didn't really receive much communication regarding the tours until the very last minute and that was with me repeatedly asking the night before. Often the information would be sent at 2/3am on the day and that is too late especially when we had to wake up early around 4/5am for places like Abu Simbel and hot air balloon (they did try to organise wake up calls around 30 minutes before our guide is due). They got the wrong pick up place for Abu Simbel even though they were the ones who organised the cruise and should know where I was. This resulted in me being picked up nearly 1 and a half hours late and the visit was very rushed and we went back to the cruise an hour late which resulted in delay in cruise departure. They also only booked the cruise for 3 nights and did not know this mistake until I found out myself. This was only resolved the next day in early afternoon with me repeatedly trying to chase it up which caused some stress and they evetually put me in another cruise for 1 night. They communicated via Whatsapp but the response can take a long time and would not answer calls including Whatsapp call or call to their Egyptian number where there was an automated message in Arabic which according to our reception was a medical centre? The only redeeming factor was our guide in Luxor Mohamed Refaaie who was very helpful, dedicated and stayed with us and contacted Nice Tours on our behalf to sort out our accommodation for the last day even though it was not his job. He was also an excellent guide with amazing stories and descriptions of Karnak and Luxor temple. Is not for him I probably would have rated the experience a lot lower. Mary our guide in Aswan was also very nice. The quality of the other guides were variable and they sometimes can arrive late. Our cruise Blue Shadow IV was nice (this was supposedly an upgrade of our booking offered at the start but did not make up for the stress and mistakes). Granted we did have all our tours but the whole process was not relaxing at all. Hopefully they can improve the organisation in the future.
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Paolard3514us
Jan 11, 2026
Never again! - Absolutely avoid! In April, I booked a cruise with my friends on the GetYourGuide platform. The departure was supposed to be on December 29, but on December 12, the cruise was canceled with the excuse of "bad weather." However, when I checked, it was still available for booking but at a higher price. I asked the customer service center for an explanation and they told me that it was a system problem and that it should not be available, but during our vacation we found that it was still available at €500 more than the original price. Needless to say, all the other cruises had no problem departing, so this "bad weather" only affected this company... After asking around in Luxor, I was told that this company is not at all reliable... I will never book with them again and I advise you to stay away from them too!
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Monicabss
Jan 9, 2026
To be avoided absolutely - There would be so much to say, I just report the highlights. Cruise booked and paid months before departure. We're off to a bad start with hotel pickup, set at 6:30 a.m. We waited half an hour without anyone warning us and not knowing if they were actually coming. At check in on the ship we find that they booked us 4 nights instead of 3, we try to call and no one answers us. For 3 days we constantly urge for a solution, not knowing where we would sleep that night. Most of the guides spoke poor English and were difficult to understand. Until late in the evening we had no information on the following day's schedule, which in most cases was not respected due to delays caused by Nice Tours. Some activities included in the program were not offered to us (feluca ride, lunch in a local restaurant). We felt cheated.
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Alessandro
Jan 6, 2026
Chaotic and stressful experience. They tried to provide me with a tour different from the one purchased - The average review score is absolutely not what I and other customers I met during my trip experienced. The truth is that Nice Tours is a company with no organization and no regard for customers. I and many other tourists placed by Nice Tours on the same cruise have experienced ridiculous and stressful experiences. With communications delayed, we repeatedly waited until the night before to find out if and when there would be activities scheduled for the next day. Guides for temple visits do not speak good English. The coordinator of the activities entrusted to us and who followed us on the ship was perpetually confused and confused. One activity (felucca tour) I missed because no one showed up to pick us up, for others we woke up very early (on average 4 am) and then left late for problems caused either by Nice Tours or their guides. But the worst in my case was in the cruise booking. I had booked through Get Your Guide a Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor of 4 nights and 5 days, paid and confirmed. Arrived on the ship for check-in, I find that Nice Tours booked only for 3 nights and not 4, and that on the last day the ship could not have made me stay there under any circumstances because that ship specifically only makes trips of 3 nights / 4 days. Contacted Nice Tours to get explanations on how they could have made a mistake booking 3 nights instead of 4, and to know where I would be on the fourth night (which I had paid dearly as every night on the ship). The answer I get is that everything is fine, that it was a choice made to give me the best possible experience and that they would find me a hotel for the last night. They were basically providing me with something different from the one I bought! For days I insistently asked where then they had booked for the last night, without answer. I didn't have any information about where they were going to let me stay my last night, until the day before in the late afternoon. This, in addition to me, also happened to a family with children on the same ship as me, giving us all a stressful experience. In the end, the ship's company agreed to keep us an extra night, settling things both at Nice Tours and us. Other details to help you understand the level of organization: The pick-up time for the visit to Abu Simbel was never given to us, despite many messages on whatsapp requesting it, to the point that I now thought we would not go. So we go to sleep, only to be woken up at 2:45 by the reception of the ship, who tells us that in 20 minutes we should have left because the guide had arrived for us. The hot air balloon ride at dawn was not at dawn, because earlier Nice Tours sent some the wrong time, making them prepare 40 minutes late. Then, once we left, the guide without explaining why made us go back losing another 20 minutes. My wife and I still managed to complete almost all the activities that were planned in our program, many others did not. I would not recommend Nice Tours to anyone looking for a well-organized tour and reliable communications.
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Bianca_l
Dec 31, 2025
Very Disappointing Experience – Poor Organization and Unreliable Tour Operator - We booked this cruise expecting a well-organized 5-day trip, but the experience fell far short of expectations. From the very first day, we noticed serious disorganization: the felucca ride was canceled without any explanation, we were initially checked in on the wrong boat, and the next boat left Luxor unexpectedly—with no prior notice. When we asked the tour operator, we received a vague excuse about another boat catching fire and were told to “look it up in the news.” That incident had actually occurred more than a week earlier and had nothing to do with our trip, as confirmed by the cruise staff. The operator also claimed that the cruise itself was a replacement for the felucca ride, which made no sense at all. As a result, the entire program of Day 2—a highlight of this tour—was canceled. We missed the hot air balloon ride, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari, and Colossi of Memnon. That same day, the operator told us that the tour was actually one day shorter than advertised. Based on this information, we changed an existing booking and reserved an additional hotel for the supposed “extra day” so we could return to Luxor to visit the West Bank on our own. Then, on the last night, they informed us that the tour was actually a 5-day itinerary after all (though with no scheduled program in Aswan). By that point, it was too late to cancel our other bookings, and despite this clear mistake, the operator never took responsibility or offered any refund for this mistake. To make matters worse, in Kom Ombo the guide never showed up. The operator later blamed us for missing the meeting, even though we arrived 25 minutes early and waited until the agreed time. We strongly suspect they provided the wrong meeting time. Overall, the tour operator’s organization was chaotic and unprofessional. Communication was poor, the schedule changed constantly, and we were left feeling uncomfortable and frustrated throughout. We were honestly relieved when the cruise finally ended.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).