Luxor Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today was an easy day. No biking around Luxor like yesterday. In the late morning, I went to the Mummification Museum where I learned all about the mummification process. I know there are a few shopkeeprers in Egypt that I have met that I would love to go through the mummification process - alive! After that, I went to Karnak to see all the temp...

The Queen's Valley Hotel turned out to be quite luxurious and we got the feeling we w**e room fill**s because we hadn't paid much for the accommodation part of the trip. Anoth** reason not to take the expensive tours, the hotels and guides are the same ones they use for the backpacket budget tours. The room had satellite television with English ...

Leaving behind our faithful felucca and taking once more to travel by land, we followed the path of the Nile north, reaching Luxor by midday. Form**ly the ancient capital of Thebes, Luxor maintains a sense of pow** and regality through the magnificent temples, tombs, and monuments that it still hosts. We started at Karnak Temple. If Abu Aimbel h...

January 1 (Tuesday)

I woke up about midday feeling like absolute ****, damn cheap Egyptian beer! I had previously booked a train out of Luxor to Aswan today at 6.30pm and had not yet seen the main sight of Luxor; the Karnak Temple complex. Therefore I had to try and battle the hangover and make my way to the temple complex as I definite...

(Jim) One of the most startling things about Egypt is the geography of the country. As you fly south toward Luxor in Upper Egypt, once you leave the environs of Cairo there is nothing but desert. And this is not semi-arid Southwest U. S. type of desert, with tumbleweeds growing sparsely in front of scenic red-rock buttes, nor a Lawrence of Arabi...

After the world's longest bus ride (18 hours!), we have made it to Luxor... It's on the Nile and a historically rich site, as the Valley of the Kings (where King Tut was discovered in the early 1900's), Valley of the Queens and the Temple of Hatshepsut (one of the most powerful female pharoahs in Egypt's history)... It's also the site of a terr...

You can't blame the Hollywood studios, but through watching their epic blockbusters like 'Cleopatra', I found Alexandria a real disappointment. My illusion was centred on finding a cluster of well preserved, magnificent buildings and temples along a Mediterranean beach front - the reality was desparately disappointing. In total contrast and mayb...

We got up early and packed our bags- no more river boat. We crossed the Nile by motor boat. After a short walk we came to a group of donkeys. I was matched to a light grey one and helped on. Then it started to wander away from the rest of the group!! I kept my legs out to the side to try and balance myself- I didn't want to be the one who fell o...

Today was jam-packed full of events starting at 3:30 when we had to get up to go to the airport for a flight to Luxor. This was the start of our cruise, but before we actually boarded the ship we had some sightseeing to do. On the west bank of the Nile across from Luxor is the Valley of the Kings. The west side of the bank was for the dead and t...

Even back in the early 90s Egypt had a bit of trouble with attacks on tourists. Anti government forces sought to upset the balance of power by attacking the economy - and that lucrative sourse of income: tourists. Of course, those attacks all seem a bit tame in the light of more recent events, but still it gave my mate Birdy a good opportunity t...