HomeLady Carol Nile Cruise Holiday
Spend New Year on the Nile. This Lady Carol Nile cruise holiday boards in Luxor on 31 December and disembarks in Aswan on 4 January, so New Year’s Eve is spent on board with Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple behind you. Over the following days you cross to the Valley of the Kings and the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, sail to Edfu for the Temple of Horus, stop at Kom Ombo, and finish in Aswan with Philae Temple and the Unfinished Obelisk. Your 5-star main-deck cabin is full board throughout, with afternoon tea on the sundeck while you sail and an English-speaking guide on every excursion. Abu Simbel can be added on your last day. New Year cabins go first, and the Black Friday offer closes soon.
- Full-board accommodation on board the Nile cruise
- All shore excursions and Nile cruise sightseeing
- Meet and greet on arrival and departure
- All transfers by air-conditioned vehicle
- Our staff on hand throughout your stay and excursions
- Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple
- The Valley of the Kings and the Temple of Hatshepsut
- The temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo
- Philae Temple and the Unfinished Obelisk
- Entrance fees to every site between Luxor and Aswan on this itinerary
- An English-speaking guide on all cruise tours and shore excursions
- Service charges and all applicable taxes
- Personal spending money
- Tips for the cruise crew and guides
- Soft and alcoholic drinks
- Optional excursions, including Abu Simbel ($130 per person)
In short:
- Meet at Luxor airport or station
- Lunch on board
- The East Bank — Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple.
- Overnight moored in Luxor.
We meet you at Luxor airport or the railway station and take you straight to the ship, so your holiday starts the moment you land rather than after a queue. Lunch is served on board while you settle into your cabin.
The afternoon is the East Bank. Karnak Temple comes first: 2,000 years of pharaohs each adding their own hall, obelisk or pylon to the same site, with a hypostyle hall of 134 columns so big that the scale only lands when there is a person standing at the base of one.
From there you move to Luxor Temple, in the middle of the modern town, built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II and lit beautifully in the late afternoon. Dinner is on board.
Meals: lunch, dinner ·
Overnight: on board in Luxor
In short:
- West Bank in the morning — Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut's temple
- The ship sails to Edfu via Esna.
- Overnight moored in Edfu.
Breakfast on board, then across to the West Bank, where the pharaohs were buried once they stopped building pyramids and started hiding instead.
In the Valley of the Kings you go down inside the rock-cut tombs. The paintings are 3,000 years old and the colour is still there — reds, blues, gold — because they were sealed in the dark for most of that time.
Then the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, built in terraces straight into a cliff face. Hatshepsut ruled as pharaoh in her own right, and her successor tried to erase her from the record; the temple is what survived the attempt.
Back on board for lunch as the ship casts off for Edfu, passing through the lock at Esna. Afternoon tea on the sundeck, and dinner under the stars.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner ·
Overnight: on board in Edfu
In short:
- The Temple of Horus at Edfu in the morning
- Kom Ombo in the afternoon
- Sailing on to Aswan.
- Overnight moored in Aswan.
Breakfast on board, then the Temple of Horus at Edfu — the most complete temple left standing in Egypt. Sand buried it for centuries, which is exactly why the roof, the halls and the carvings are all still there. Two granite falcons guard the entrance.
Lunch is served as the ship sails for Kom Ombo, with afternoon tea on the way.
Kom Ombo is the odd one out among Egyptian temples: it is built as a perfect mirror image of itself, because it belongs to two gods at once — Sobek the crocodile god on one side, Haroeris the falcon god on the other. Everything is doubled, down to the sanctuaries. Then you sail on to Aswan, with dinner on board as the river goes dark.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner ·
Overnight: on board in Aswan
In short:
- Philae Temple
- Unfinished Obelisk,
- All meals and afternoon tea on board.
- Overnight moored in Aswan.
Breakfast on board, then Philae Temple — which is not where it was built. When the High Dam was going up, the whole temple was cut into blocks, numbered and rebuilt on higher ground. Its colonnades carry the last hieroglyphic inscription ever carved in Egypt, the final line of a writing system that ran for three and a half thousand years.
Then the Unfinished Obelisk, still lying in the granite quarry where it was being cut. It would have been the largest single piece of stone ever worked, until a crack appeared and it was abandoned on the spot. You can still see the tool marks in the rock.
Lunch, afternoon tea and dinner are all on board, with time on the sundeck in between — Aswan is the prettiest stretch of the river and the best place to do nothing.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner ·
Overnight: on board in Aswan
In short:
- Breakfast, disembark.
- Free time in Aswan.
- Transfer to the airport or station.
- Optional Abu Simbel excursion.
Breakfast on board, then you disembark with free time to see Aswan itself — the Nubian side of Egypt, with its own music, colour and food, and a river full of white sails. Then we transfer you to Aswan airport or the railway station for your onward journey.
Optional: Abu Simbel — $130 per person
If you are going to do one optional excursion in Egypt, make it this one. You travel from Aswan by private air-conditioned vehicle or by EgyptAir to the two temples Ramses II cut into a mountainside, one for himself and one for his queen, Nefertari. Like Philae, both were moved block by block to save them from the rising water.
It is an early start — departure between 5:00 and 6:00 am, three and a half hours each way by road, and two hours at the site. Afterwards, you return to Aswan with the rest of the day free.
Meals: breakfast
- Gym and spa
- Reading room
- Jewellery shop and bazaar
- Internet access
- Central sound system throughout the ship
- 24-hour room service
- Laundry service
- Medical service, on call
Every cabin is non-smoking and comes with:
- A private bathroom with a shower and hairdryer
- A French balcony or picture window, so the Nile is in view from your bed
- Air conditioning
- An electronic safe
- A satellite television (channels available while docked)
- A direct telephone line
- A mini fridge
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5 days and 4 nights, sailing from Luxor to Aswan. You board in Luxor on 31 December 2026 and disembark in Aswan on 4 January 2027.
Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple on day one; the Valley of the Kings and the Temple of Hatshepsut on day two; the Temple of Horus at Edfu and the Temple of Kom Ombo on day three; Philae Temple and the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan on day four. Entrance fees to all of them are included.
Yes — the cruise is full board. All meals are served on the ship, along with afternoon tea on sailing days. Soft and alcoholic drinks are not included.
Egyptian winter: warm, dry, sunny days and cold evenings, especially on the sundeck after dark. Pack layers and a jacket.
Yes, on day five for $130 per person, by private air-conditioned vehicle or by EgyptAir. Departure is between 5:00 and 6:00 am, the road journey is three and a half hours each way, and you spend two hours at the temples.
Yes. The cruise covers Luxor and Aswan only, so most travellers add two or three nights in Cairo for the Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum, before or after the sailing.
