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Aug 3 2011

Luxor Holiday Bargains

We have some excellent Luxor holiday bargains available throughout August and September.

As I mentioned in an earlier post Barbara and I visited Luxor about 10 weeks ago and I do love the city. It has a wonderful selection of 5 star hotels many of them located right on the banks of The Nile and all of which have excellent facilities.

I’m not a great beach person and often prefer relaxing around a pool rather than on a beach and if you are the same then you will find that all of the major Luxor hotels have wonderful pool areas most of which are set in beautifully manicured gardens running down to the edge of The Nile.

Add to that the wide number of temples and sites of archealogical interest that you can visit whilst in Luxor and you have a fantastic base to have a fascinating yet relaxing holiday.

Barbara and I take the Dorling Kindersley “Eyewitness Travel Egypt” guide book with us when we travel and there is an extensive section on Luxor within the book and would be an ideal travel companion.

If you would like to know more about any of the hotels in Luxor please feel free to call either Barbara or Colin on our Freephone 0808 1089 100 number.

Apr 19 2011

Luxor Hotel Bargains

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When Barbara and I were in Egypt two weeks ago we visited four excellent hotels in Luxor that are offering great rates at the moment.�

They include the Sofitel Karnak, which is situated in a lovely location on the banks of the Nile near Karnak Temple. The Sofitel has wonderful facilities and beautiful grounds including a fabulous swimming pool location. A great hotel for families too.

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Mar 28 2011

Depart for Luxor

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We have arrived in Luxor after a good flight with Monarch from Manchester. We stayed overnight at the excellent Premier Inn. Great price, nice hotel and spotlessly clean. The receptionist told us that the shuttle bus was £4 each to the airport whilst a taxi was just £6. If you take the shuttle you have to struggle on and off with your cases plus wait for it to arrive whereas a taxi takes you straight to the terminal and you have no struggle with cases or waiting times. So it was a taxi transfer that took about 10 minutes.

The only problem was that instead of arriving at the flight desk at our normal time of 3 hours before we left it to 2 hours. Bad move as we were at the back of a long queue and there were 4 long queues. Normally we are at the front of the queue and have no waiting. This time we were actually the last people to check in and we were the last people to board the plane. Luckily we had good seats in row 3 so we weren’t right at the back if the plane.

Flight was delayed by an hour because of fog but the captain made up time and we arrived just 30 minutes late. After a smooth transfer through the airport we finally boarded our cruise ship, the excellent Royal Viking Nile cruise ship which is where I’m txting this now. We have a lovely upper deck cabin and we are just about to go down for dinner.

Early start tomorrow so we’ll probably have an early night.

To finish…I would definitely recommend the Premier Inn at Manchester Airport. I would suggest you ask the hotel reception the difference in costs between the shuttle and a taxi and I would always turn up early for check-in.

Feb 15 2011

Luxor Flight News From The Foreign Office

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Today the Foreign Office has removed Luxor from it’s list of locations in Egypt that it recommends to travel to only if your journey is essential. That means that flights to Luxor from the UK will resume shortly and Nile Cruise holidays will recommence.

If you read our earlier post today you will have read that a client of ours is currently in Luxor and is due to cruise at any moment and reports that Luxor is as normal and that the Nile cruise ships are ready to recommence immediately.

Lets hope that travellers from the UK will start to visit Egypt as soon as possible to help restore Tourism which is such a great part of the Egyptian economy.