There really is nothing more satisfying than a great Luxury Nile Cruise testimonial from clients who you have spent time planning their first Nile Cruise holiday for.
Given all of the "issues" and negative media reports, there is no doubt that selling holidays to certain parts of Egypt has got harder. Many agents are selling at discounted prices and worse, offering Nile Cruise holidays based on Nile Cruise boats that the clients will not ultimately end on, and in many cases they are put on lower standard boats.
At Atp Travel Ltd it is one of the principles of our company that if for any reason the Nile Cruise boat any of our clients are booked on will not operate, the clients are moved to a boat of the same or superior standard. We offer the clients in general 3 Nile Cruise boats which we know will be suitable replacements and then let the clients choose.
Looking at recent reports on trip advisor from clients who have booked on the Ms Emely been moved onto other boats on arrival to Luxor it is clear that the trend is to put the clients on a lower standard boat and not worry about the consequences.
So if you want a quality, Nile Cruise or Luxury Nile Cruise holiday Atp Travel Ltd can provide this for you.
For more information on our great offers contact Atp Travel Ltd on 0845 680 9261 or email at info@atptravel.co.uk
Showing posts with label Trip Advisor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trip Advisor. Show all posts
Monday, 18 February 2013
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
What counts as a great value Nile Cruise holiday
With a little time on my hands I have been reading and contributing to some of the topics on trip advisor and I came across one titled MS Orchid with First Choice -7 day cruise- Need some advice where the poster was asking for help with booking excursions as her £1800.00 Nile Cruise holiday did not include these although she had thought it did!
On reading the post further it seemed that possibly the lady had misread how the tour company had represented what was included in the holiday which was further compounded by the rep selling the holiday not being "Sure" if the trips were included or not.
The point is that for a £900.00 holiday on a fairly old and not really 5* boat you should really expect to get one of the main elements of the holiday that you are going to Egypt for, ie the excursions
£900.00 is a lot of money in anyone's eyes and in Egypt especially you can get a great value holiday for much less or a holiday of a much higher quality for the same sort of money.
Currently for under £700.00 you can have a week on the RA II with flights, full board and more sightseeing than you will see on most other boats
For around £900.00 you can have a week on the Luxury Nile Cruise boat Ms Farah with flights, full board and sightseeing which with its ultra modern contemporary style will ensure you a great Egypt holiday
So the moral is don't always book with the big tour operators and definitely read all the small print to know what is and what is not included!!!
For more information on our great offers contact Atp Travel Ltd on 0845 680 9261 or email at info@atptravel.co.uk
On reading the post further it seemed that possibly the lady had misread how the tour company had represented what was included in the holiday which was further compounded by the rep selling the holiday not being "Sure" if the trips were included or not.
The point is that for a £900.00 holiday on a fairly old and not really 5* boat you should really expect to get one of the main elements of the holiday that you are going to Egypt for, ie the excursions
£900.00 is a lot of money in anyone's eyes and in Egypt especially you can get a great value holiday for much less or a holiday of a much higher quality for the same sort of money.
Currently for under £700.00 you can have a week on the RA II with flights, full board and more sightseeing than you will see on most other boats
For around £900.00 you can have a week on the Luxury Nile Cruise boat Ms Farah with flights, full board and sightseeing which with its ultra modern contemporary style will ensure you a great Egypt holiday
So the moral is don't always book with the big tour operators and definitely read all the small print to know what is and what is not included!!!
For more information on our great offers contact Atp Travel Ltd on 0845 680 9261 or email at info@atptravel.co.uk
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
The most Luxurious Nile Cruise
You often see on trip advisor new posts asking for advice on what is the most luxurious/best Nile Cruise and then the various replies list their favourites and reasons for it. In general the same boats appear and luckily ones offered by Atp Travel, Ms Farah and Ms Mayfair are most often included.
The truth is that it is impossible to say which is the best or most luxurious as most of the top end luxury boats are quite similar in a lot of ways and it can come down to style and décor as the deciding factor. Of course there are several Nile Cruise boats sold at large prices - Alexander the Great and Sanctuary Nile Adventurer - that would definitely fall into the top luxury Nile Cruise list. But for the extra money you would pay for these boats would it be worth it?
Most Nile Cruise boats are the same - length, width, height, have 1 restaurant, 1 large lounge bar, 1 sun deck bar and several shops/boutiques. The newer/luxury ones will sometimes have some form of spa area, a second smaller lounge/bar area and a second smaller lounge/quiet area. Also on the luxury Nile Cruises the décor will be of a much higher standard - some boats costs over $10,000,000 - the service standard much higher as well as the meals of which at least dinner will be a la carte.
However for all of this, is still worth paying possibly an extra £1000.00 per person for a weeks Nile Cruise? Of course some people will think its worth it or be convinced by a good sales person, but it definitely does not have to be the case.
At Atp Travel we believe in offering affordable priced luxury Nile Cruises and our clients during November have testified to this.
So if you are looking for a great value Luxury Nile Cruise on some of the newest and most luxurious boats on the Nile then please contact us at info@atptravel.co.uk or call on 0845 680 9261 for details.
The truth is that it is impossible to say which is the best or most luxurious as most of the top end luxury boats are quite similar in a lot of ways and it can come down to style and décor as the deciding factor. Of course there are several Nile Cruise boats sold at large prices - Alexander the Great and Sanctuary Nile Adventurer - that would definitely fall into the top luxury Nile Cruise list. But for the extra money you would pay for these boats would it be worth it?
Most Nile Cruise boats are the same - length, width, height, have 1 restaurant, 1 large lounge bar, 1 sun deck bar and several shops/boutiques. The newer/luxury ones will sometimes have some form of spa area, a second smaller lounge/bar area and a second smaller lounge/quiet area. Also on the luxury Nile Cruises the décor will be of a much higher standard - some boats costs over $10,000,000 - the service standard much higher as well as the meals of which at least dinner will be a la carte.
However for all of this, is still worth paying possibly an extra £1000.00 per person for a weeks Nile Cruise? Of course some people will think its worth it or be convinced by a good sales person, but it definitely does not have to be the case.
At Atp Travel we believe in offering affordable priced luxury Nile Cruises and our clients during November have testified to this.
So if you are looking for a great value Luxury Nile Cruise on some of the newest and most luxurious boats on the Nile then please contact us at info@atptravel.co.uk or call on 0845 680 9261 for details.
Monday, 5 November 2012
Is Egypt safe for tourists
The FCO website upgraded its travel advice for Egypt last Friday which has naturally led to a lot of tourists and prospective tourists asking if Egypt is a safe place to travel to.
Although the actual update was specific to certain parts of Sinai (Northern) which nearly all tourists will not go to or need to go to, unfortunately given past events in Egypt over the last couple of years and also elsewhere in the Middle East, any change in the advice is not good for Egypt.
The debates on trip advisor have raged on with the usual, "it wont change my plans" as well as some suggesting that they would not go on holidays already booked.
In the world we live in, with all its various threats means that the FCO is duty bound to issue changes and upgrades when it receives information of a possible new threat. However if you look at the advice for virtually any country, the terms general or high threat of terrorism appear (France, Germany and Spain were three that I checked).
So what to do? although there have been several past attacks on tourists, Egypt is generally a very safe place and whilst there is no guarantee of anything, I don't think that anyone travelling to any tourist resort should be worried by the new advice.
If however anyone does need any further information then please do not hesitate to contact me on 0845 680 9261 or email me at info@atptravel.co.ukinfo@atptravel.co.uk
Although the actual update was specific to certain parts of Sinai (Northern) which nearly all tourists will not go to or need to go to, unfortunately given past events in Egypt over the last couple of years and also elsewhere in the Middle East, any change in the advice is not good for Egypt.
The debates on trip advisor have raged on with the usual, "it wont change my plans" as well as some suggesting that they would not go on holidays already booked.
In the world we live in, with all its various threats means that the FCO is duty bound to issue changes and upgrades when it receives information of a possible new threat. However if you look at the advice for virtually any country, the terms general or high threat of terrorism appear (France, Germany and Spain were three that I checked).
So what to do? although there have been several past attacks on tourists, Egypt is generally a very safe place and whilst there is no guarantee of anything, I don't think that anyone travelling to any tourist resort should be worried by the new advice.
If however anyone does need any further information then please do not hesitate to contact me on 0845 680 9261 or email me at info@atptravel.co.ukinfo@atptravel.co.uk
Monday, 6 February 2012
Trip Advisor
Last weeks censure of Trip Advisor by Britain's advertising watchdog brought back the argument about how much reviews on the site are genuine.
As someone who spends sometime going over the reviews for Nile Cruises and hotels in Egypt on the site this is a subject close to my heart. I use to tell clients "would you believe anything a stranger advised you if he walked up to you in the street?" but at the same time if a prospective client sees a good or several good reviews on a holiday he was interested in, it is most likely to have an effect on whether he books or not.
As a tour operator/travel agent, the rules on what I can and cant do on Trip Advisor are quite tough but pretty much boil down to no advertising or soliciting of your own products, which is quite fair but of course companies and organisations will always look at ways to get around this, hence bogus reviews etc, and the problem is there no way that Trip Advisor can check everyone that posts a review. I ask my own clients who have sent me a good feedback if they wouldn't mind putting this on Trip Advisor but for some reason most do not, why I don't know.
The forums for each destination are in some ways now a better way to glean information/ideas about a prospective holiday. Most seem to have their own "destination experts" - who in Trip Advisor's own words - are the backbone of the TripAdvisor community. They are regular contributors who exemplify the best of our forums - and their level of knowledge is generally high normally because they visit their destination so often or have lived or live there.
That said, in the case of Egypt, when some of the posted questions/comments are as follows, you wonder why they would want to reply:
What side of the plane to sit on?
Are Jeans ok in Soho Square?
However recently with the latest problems in Egypt including the deaths and riots at the football match at Port Said and the kidnapping of 2 American tourists last week and other smaller issues it seems that both Trip Advisor and some of the destination experts are having some problems.
Whilst it is completely understandable that many people going to Egypt want to find out information about whether it is safe to visit at the moment etc, Trip Advisor has closed some topics and removed a number of posts on this subject that "did not meet their guidelines". Several had a number of comments, many from destination experts where they had slightly descended into arguments about who could say what which is unfortunately always going to be the case where you have "experts" offering their own comments, but still they were talking about the safety issue.
The overall feeling is that Trip Advisor seems to be getting much tougher on what it will allow anyone to say even if it can effect their safety as opposed to asking "if jeans are ok?" which cannot be good. If they carry on like this it could start to affect how many people want to carry on contributing as destination experts or even posting questions if they feel that Trip Advisor will censure them.
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