Happy New Year

A Happy New Year to one and all and for Egypt's sake lets hope its a good one.

So far things are showing signs of improvements with enquiries and bookings up on the same period from last year. We all hope that the anniversary of the "revolution" on the 25th January will pass without any major incident and that finally there will be some good news about Egypt rather than the depressing stuff that has appeared.

So here's to a fantastic to 2013 for us all.

Love and best wishes

Andrew

Luxor News

Just returned from a 2 week holiday to Luxor and tourist business there is very quiet. Although there has been quite alot of discounting on packages it has not really generated much business and all hotels are running at very low occupancy levels.

If anything the situation is even worse on the Nile Cruise boats with probably less than 10% sailing and most lying empty and mothballed at their moorings. Of the owners and managers that I talked to none could give me confirmed dates when they planned t0 restart.

One small upside to this is that the tourist sites are very quiet and so you can have as much time as you like at each one and infact at one temple we visited, Medinet Habu (temple of Ramses III) our family were the only tourists there!

RA II Nile Cruise specials

The current low level of tourists in Egypt and especially in Luxor and Cairo has effected the number of Nile Cruises that are operating. Currently out of around 300 boats only maybe 25-30 are sailing at this time and many of the others do not know when they will restart service.

One problem this can cause is that people booking a Nile Cruise may find that the boat they had booked to go on is changed shortly before they are due to travel as it does not have enough people in order for it to sail. This could then lead them to be put on an inferior boat.

The UK favourite RA II continues to sail with its normal program including its extra sailing to the temple of Dendera and at Atp Travel http://www.atptravel.co.uk/RA_II we have some fantastic deals for selected departures in September and October. If you book this boat you are guaranteed to be on it.

Call now for details