just got back yesterday Wednesday 11 november from a cruise on the nile legacy. the flight was good albeit from Gatwick and not Manchester as originally booked. still don't know why...? . no problems with flight. when we were met at luxor, there was a band, whirling dervishes, happy smiling people giving us such a warm friendly welcome who then gave the ladies a flower and chocolate. we felt really special. met by the lovely gabriel and his team. who informed us which coach we were on. there were several coaches feeding people to the nile legacy. there were about 100+ but not completely full of people. we were the first to visit since june. we had requested a room between 310 and 320 and we got what we asked for with no trouble. if the room was not satisfactory we could ask to go in another but we were quite happy with ours. both suites were fully booked. i wanted to see them for future reference, I had an offer to look at the suites and they do look wonderful if you want to pay the extra, however a standard cabin was fine for us. we were out of it most of the time anyway. it was a brilliant holiday. great service, lovely selection of hot and cold food which included several variatons of meats, vegetables, fish, salads, breads, and puddings. and always two types of soup. they will also cater for special diets, very helpful people on the boat. nothing too much trouble, they cleaned rooms twice a day. the standard cabin had a fridge, tv, kettle, storage space but can be difficult if you leave large suitcases around in the room, but can be stored in the wardrobes, and a very large bed, with balconette with full french windows. the only thing for me with a fixed ankle that caused an issue were the gangplanks as it made me a little vary but others were absolutely fine but I did them. we still had to go through a few boats when docked on occasions and sometimes another boat docked next to us for a while which removes a little light from the cabin but most people are on the top deck anyway. I would highly recommend it and when you are out and about you are accompanied by security who you know are there for you, but we never felt threatened in any way. it is a great place to go and relax, explore historical sites as we did on the on full iteninary, meet new people. learn about the eygpitan way of life etc. there is also an option to go to cairo via plane and abu simbel by coach. dendera was by coach as water levels were too low for traveling by boat. we would go again. All in all it was an excellent experience and we had done it before this is why we wanted to go back. We will still venture and have holidays in eygpt as it is truly a magnificent underated holiday destination. I strongly urge you to give the true Egypt a try especially on the MS Nile Legacy. It was a beautiful clean boat with excellent standards. . x

This was part of a SAGA Egypt holiday, and we spent 6 nights cruising between Luxor and Aswan. The ship (part of the Presidential Nile fleet) was better than expected (reviews on The Admiral were less than complimentary) but was showing lack of repairs and renewals - it was however sailing which can not be said of the many cruise ships on the Nile - the numbers of vessels tied up and slowly rotting was a sad sight. All our tours from the ship were organised by SAGA - and our group made up the majority of passengers. Cabins were of reasonable size and all things worked. The cleaning staff however should spend more time cleaning rather than making towel sculptures! Food was a lot better than expected and a reasonable variety. The pool was fine and the evening entertainment went from bad (Nubian Dancers) to brilliant - a take on the Whirling Dervishes with light show? All in all the ship was fine - but the views from the cabin window weer great