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Accommodation - hotels were excellent but the Nile cruiser was fairly ordinary.
Food - The only food provided was the Nile Cruiser and breakfasts at the hotels. The standard of the food on the cruiser was ordinary, all buffet.
Local transport was very good and the drivers were very professional and handled the local driving conditions well.
Cairo guide was outstanding, good English great knowledge but knew when to back off and let us do our own exploring and gave us enough time to look at our own pace.
The other guides were good as well although there was a bit of a push to go to some local outlets that were OK but not really our thing i.e. natural oils etc.
Your guidance note about the On The Go representative was confusing as it indicates that there was only one when in fact there were three, Cairo, Aswan and Luxor so the tipping guidance was not appropriate,
Communication - there needs to be a big improvement in communication around daily activities and also in our situation, details of the flights that have been arranged i.e. we only found out the day before we were due to fly from Luxor to Cairo what time the flight left Luxor. This was important as we had to catch a flight to Dubai.
The biggest negative issue is the tipping: it just seemed that everyone had their hand out for something and while your notes do say it is part of the culture it is not part of our culture”