The Cleopatra accommodates up to six guests comfortably. We will be pleased to include a seventh family member on a complimentary basis in the limited available space.

Honeymooners

We can ensure that you and your new spouse would have the utmost privacy and you can request when and what you would like to tour along your journey.
In addition, we have a wonderful chef to make your intimate dining one to remember, whether you want private dining in your cabin or one on deck. This will be entirely up to you!

Flowers and other details can also be arranged for additional prices. These
are just some ideas we have for you.

Guide on board :

For your enhanced privacy and security, your sailing crew will spend the night on a small tug, which will always be at your disposal to assure your progress even on windless days. Your Egyptologist-guide will have his own quarters aboard the Royal Cleopatra, or, if you prefer, he can stay ashore and be called upon only during the day. He will accompany you during your visits and assist with your touring and free-time activities, always keeping to your sailing schedule. For the serious Egyptologists and devoted amateurs among our guests, we can even customize a private charter and schedule to allow you to spend extended time at selected sites with your guide.

As you can imagine, the Cleopatra is in high demand, so please contact us as early as possible if you wish to reserve your yacht on a charter basis.

Regrettably, discounts are not available for children that are 6 years if age or older , on this cruise/tour.

Please remember that we can also arrange a cruise for you on one of our large, spacious, luxurious air-conditioned Nile cruisers with all the conveniences: a different experience from the intimate ambiance of the "Royal Cleopatra."

Rates are per person in US:
Itinerary is subject to change without notice.

Rate include:

No airfares included. Please click here to add domestic air fare

The Royal Cleopatra is a:
Traditional wind-driven sailing craft, and is subject to the uncertainties of wind, weather and riverine traffic conditions on the Nile. We will do our best to follow published itineraries, but they must be considered tentative in all cases. We reserve the right to modify or cancel any sailing itinerary as conditions warrant. In case of insufficient wind, weather danger or difficult riverine traffic conditions on the Nile or through the Nile locks, or other cause of cancellation, we reserve the right to accommodate Royal Cleopatra passengers aboard a deluxe Nile cruise vessel, and / or to transport passengers between some sites by motor vehicle along the Nile, to be able to keep up with the itinerary , at our option.

Guest Book:

From: Liz ...................
To: Elkabbanies
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: MGI PhotoSuite III digital photo.

Dear Sherif,

I just want to thank you for the best vacation of a lifetime! Everything was simply wonderful!!! The tours were great and the Dahabia was beyond description. Everyone keeps asking me about the trip and I cn only tell them that it was indescribable.

The crew on the dahabia was fantastic. We all want to return forever and live on the boat. The food was incredible and we all feel healed from the past year from floating down (up?) the Nile. What a wonderful experience. I am so angry at myself for getting sick and now I want to go back and hang out on Elephantine Island with Mustafa and the boys. As soon as I felt better, I wanted to return.

Hussein was absolutely terrific. I think we have all make good friends and we miss him and Achmed a lot. Abdu was great, too. We had a lot of fun with him and we feel like we have adopted him.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this all possible. It was a dream come true for all of us. If anyone wants to have some references for Gat Tours, give them our email and we will tell them how wonderful it was. We will be changing our email very soon, but I will let you know what our new address is.

Thanks again, Sherif. You were wonderful. We felt very pampered and comfortable with absolutely everything and everyone.

Hugs and smooches,
Liz


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Letter taken ver batim from Mrs. Mary Glynn - Cruise One Travel

Thank you so much for a most enjoyable lunch and afternoon. Mustafa was a very wonderful host.

I think this is a very marketable concept which would appeal both to couples ranging from honeymoon to the more non-traditional clients who would appreciate the 'close up' look of the Nile. I often have professors and professional couples who are not drawn to the crowds of tourists encountered aboard the traditional cruise experience and this would be ideal with the very personalized as well as getting to know the staff and crew.

The food we experienced today was most outstanding. Both in quantity and quality. We felt we were in a 'home environment.' We have certainly enjoyed the Egyptian food since we've been here and this was the best. Everything was so fresh! The beef was very high quality (better than the Cairo Hilton), vegetables so uniquely flavored, soup was so tasty and the dessert was the best custard I've ever had.

I will certainly work with Omar in promoting your product as well as telling my parent company 'Cruise One' about this unique opportunity.

Thank you for your wonderful hospitality.

Sincerely, Mary Glynn

Cruise One

Feluccas are the traditional sailing vessel of much of the Mediterranean world, and the traditional Nile felucca, or dahabeah, was the mainstay of travel in ancient Egypt.

With shallow drafts, sails, and oars, feluccas could navigate not only the great river, but the maze of canals threading through its banks, with or without wind, reaching every part of the kingdom.

Feluccas long ago transcended their role as humble transports. They held the ancient empire together, carrying troops, decrees, and the very mystery of the pharaoh.

Royal feluccas bore a larger-than-life image of the pharaoh, seated on a throne, to be seen and venerated by inhabitants even along the most remote canal. In turn, imbued with the same "ka," or spirit, as the living pharaoh himself, it would keep watch over his subjects and their activities.

So integral was the Nile felucca to the ancient Egyptian way of life that it assumed legendary attributes. Even today, you can see the oldest known Nile felucca, the regal Pharaonic dahabeah of Cheops, the ruler immortalized by the Great Pyramid at Giza. Known as the Solar Boat, it was believed to sail through the skies carrying its royal passenger along sunbeams in his single cabin, the royal suite of its day.

In later times, pashas, emirs, and sultans found that feluccas were indispensable. When Napoleon invaded Egypt, the Mameluke rulers observed the Battle of the Pyramids from their dahabeahs, and in the wake of defeat, set them afire, still laden with treasures, in the middle of the river. Always one to adapt to local practice, Napoleon even had his own dahabeah, the Italie, which was used by his officers to explore Upper Egypt.

In the nineteenth century, the well-equipped Nile felucca was essential to the upper-crust adventurer. Lord Kitshner used several feluccas for his famous trip from Cairo to Khartoum.

It took from two to three months to ascend the Nile under wind power, and another month-and-a-half to float back downstream, stopping at the great temples along the way. King Farouk, Churchill, Montgomery, Mark Twain and others settled in for the journey, and a certain Lady Edwards even had a piano installed on her sailing vessel.

Eventually, steamers displaced dahabeahs, opening up an Egyptian adventure to greater numbers on Thomas Cook's tours, and trains nearly finished them off. But never completely. Even today, despite the inroads of rail, steam power, and highways, the graceful Nile felucca retains its place.

Now, Travel in Style and Nubian Nile Cruises re-create the grand era of Nile adventure. Through their special contacts, they have arranged cruises on private Nile vessels. Completely refitted, our craft will delight the discriminating traveller, with full amenities, and modern conveniences and safety features unimaginable by upper-crust visitors of old or even the ancient pharaohs.

Our private Nile cruisers are at your disposal to accommodate couples, honeymooners, families, and small groups, affording the unique experience of navigating the ancient river on your own.

The M/S Cleopatra is a lateen-rigged Nile sailing vessel, 62 feet long by 24-1/2 feet wide, with sleeping accommodations for two to six people.

Spacious quarters include a main salon, bar, and sun deck. Each of two staterooms has a panoramic picture window, and private sink, shower, and toilet, and may be configured for your voyage with a queen bed, a queen and single, or up to three single beds.

A skilled river captain is on board at all times . A guide is at your disposal to plan your itinerary and escort you through the sites you choose to visit. The crew has completely separate quarters, to ensure your privacy.

Meals may be taken as you wish in your cabin, in the salon, or on deck while you watch the timeless way of life along the banks of the river, and villages twinkling at dusk. The temptation to spend at least one night gazing at stars and sleeping on deck may be irresistible. Enjoy luxury and unique adventure, made possible at a price delightfully within your reach through Travel in Style!