Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience

Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience

Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience … Seeking to spend an unbelievable sailing tour amid the fabulous scenes of the dazzling lavish banks that meet the desert marvelously while the giant historical pharaonic monuments appear majestically behind these landscape views and call you to the great historical eras and their mysteries?!

Both Dahabiya and Egypt Nile Cruise can offer you this experience. Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience.

Enjoy the best journey to ancient Egypt’s world.

The Style of Sailing: Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience

Dahabiya means to sail on an elegant wooden, smaller-sized sailboat used in the nineteenth century for a Nile sailing for royalty and nobility. Now, Dahabiya is rented and provides an opportunity to experience this lavish sailing style of centuries ago.

Nile Cruises are large ships of swimming pools, lounges, restaurants, cafés, and bars with soft drinks, and these cruises work with steam engines.

So, it is noticed that Dahabiya and Nile Cruise sail in the Nile River, which is the ancient Egyptian god called Habu that takes you to its wonders as a time gap, transferring you magically the same way it transferred the ancient Egyptians. You will see the same views they had seen.

Dahabiya or Nile Cruises, you will sail through great history in the heart of ancient Egypt, whether through the royalty way of the nineteenth century or by the Nile Cruises to relax with the modern style.

It depends on your desire _ Dahabiya vs. Cruise Ship: Choosing the Right Nile Experience

Imagine being in a twin-masted small boat sailing lulled by the gentle movement of the Nile waves depending on the push of the wind or a tugboat when necessary.

You feel each movement of the lazy waves because you are close to the water, and the Nile sends you refreshing breezes, closer than what you take through the Nile Cruise.

You enjoy this amazing romance while being in privacy with a small group of up to 12 people on the Dahabiya deck. relish hearing the sound of the water against the boat’s body and being closer to the dazzling Nile River views. 

Rather than that, you are in a sailing hotel with large groups with about 120 passengers of various nationalities to get to know them and enjoy a lovely social tour to the heart of ancient Egypt, relishing the amazing views of the Nile while having the hotel amenities of swimming pools, lounges, festivals, and even more, spending lively nights in celebrations. 

So, you can select a Nile Cruise or Dahabiya Nile Cruise as per your desire, whether you prefer calmness, romance, and privacy or search for a vibrant time full of activity and a society of joy with hoteling amenities. 

Explore the Itineraries on the Dahabiya vs. Nile Cruise!

Due to its small size, Dahabiya can reach attractions and sites of nature and great history can not be reached by the Dahabiya, while the Nile Cruise programs are more full of activities, especially the night festivals of charming Egypt’s nature like the Glabiya party and Nubian festival. To enjoy these tours, both great history arriving and Luxor and Aswan temples, tombs, and other historical sites. 

So, if you need to enjoy sailing amid dazzling majestic attractions that cannot be reached by the Nile Cruise, uncovering more charm of ancient Egypt, then Dahabiya will be your best choice.

But if you need to uncover the top attractions, including Aswan High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, Philae Temple, Kom Ombo Temple, Edfu Temple, Luxor Temple, Karnak Temple Complex, Hatshepsut Temple, Valley of the Kings, Ramesseum Temple, etc., the Nile Cruise can reach to them easily. Then to experience the unique activities of the festivals and stay in deluxe restaurants on the Nile Cruise, like spending your vacation on a 7 Days Hurghada Aswan Nile Cruise Hurghada tour.

Dahabiya also offers activities but less than the Nile Cruises because of the size of these boats; some of these activities are authentic performances of local music troupes and dancing in the traditional Egyptian style; enjoy unique relaxing time. 

The Class Degree of the Nile Cruises vs. Dahabiya 

Be assured that the whole Dahabiya fleet is a luxury,  providing you with the sailing experience of the royal family and nobles in the nineteenth century. 

As for the Nile Cruises, you have two options: the first is to book Deluxe Nile Cruises, or a classic Nile Cruises, which has a 5-class service.

So, all the choices are available for you to experience this top-of-your-life sailing tour to the heart of ancient Egypt.

Hence wherever a Dahabiya or a deluxe Nile cruise, you can enjoy spending Luxury Egypt Tours, immersing yourself in the heart of ancient Egypt as a pharaonic King/Queen, wandering majestically in his/her world.

You can contact a professional operator from a dependable tour agency, like Golavita, to recommend the best choice with the top itinerary that exceeds your desire of creating the best sailing tour to the heart of the greatness of ancient Egypt with a cost that meets your budget.

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Where do I start!!! A massive thankyou to Mr Akram and his team for creating amazing excursions giving you memorable experiences. Right from the beginning, communication with Mr Akram was so professional, he attends to all your needs by listening to what it is you want to get out of your excursions and creates these amazing moments of a life time, all with the great connections he has. Nothing is too much of a hassle for Mr Akram, he answered all my questions thoroughly before I arrived. Mr Akram showed me and my friend Hurghada City and bought us drinks, which was a lovely gesture for getting to know each other. We went on two excursions whilst we were in Hurghada, one to Cairo and the other Luxor. Our hired car was very modern, clean and had AC, which gave us a great first impression. A big shout out to our driver Hamada- what an amazing job he does, not enough credit is given. He drove so professionally and made us feel safe the entire time we were in his company. A big shout out to Mushy our tour guide, what vast information she holds, absolutely amazing with great historical knowledge. She really gives you detailed information and takes her time explaining the finer details to you. Overall our whole experience was amazing, many laughs along the way, many memories to treasure. Nothing is too much hassle for these lovely people, Mr Akram always made sure we were ok and enjoyed our experiences by checking in on us. Drinks were always topped up ensuring we were hydrated all the time whilst on our tours. If your thinking of booking with Palma tours, don't think just book, you will not regret it, right from the first communication you make with Mr Akram, things run so smoothly that's its literally stress free for when you arrive. I can't thank Mr Akram, Hamada and Mushy enough, these three deserve well over 5 stars, and I'm already looking at my next trip for next year and I'm 1000% booking with yourselves again and Mushy and Hamada you'll be the people I'll be looking to hire again. Much love from Jill and Sobia (UK)
(5/5)
We had the best guide ever, Ashraf! He is super skilled with a big heart. We became friends. I could definitely recommend Ashraf and the guided travels he does!
(5/5)
Ashraf was our Egyptian professional guide for a Czech small group planned "Sacred journey to the chacra temples of Egypt". As the title already says, not only were we using his incredible life experience of an egyptolog, tourist guide and organiser. We were also using his experience with the places themselves, which of the extra tickets are worth the money to visit the extra places, which of the villages and shops are fair and having good things. And of course all the historical stories linked to the places we visited with open mind to some new more alternative explanations of happenings too. The organisation of our trip from Hurghada, through Asuan, Luxor, Ghiza and back Hurghada is fully his expertise. Minivans, boat, train... He was always with us handling all to our happiness ❤️ Buying extra water, bananas or ordering better for stomach digestion food.
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Very kind and profesional people. In every trip that I went with them, all details were taking care of. Ashraf is the most knowledgeable tour guide that I ever met in my life. You will go on a trip and come back as friends. I highly recommend golavita Tours!
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We had booked airport transfers from Hurgada airport to our resort in May 2022 and our experience was excellent. What sets this company apart was the responsive service we got through WhatsApp messaging. You may not be aware of this but meeting a taxi driver at airport is not so easy or obvious as the security personnel does not allow drivers in or even standing by the entrance. It all was resolved easily by WhatsApp communication. I cannot overstate how important is having a rapid response when something does not go as you would expect. Thank you Ashraf. I am aware this company does much more than airport transfers: while I did not use any during my stay, I wouldnot hesitate to recommend this organisation to plan for your excursion needsin Hurghada. Update April 2023: Used them again for this trip booking through Hoppa, same excellent service.
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We booked a tour with Palma Tours, Mr Akram was very quick to respond to our questions and checked in with us daily to see how the tour was going. Waleed, the tour guide, was excellent. He was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. The bottles of water to keep us hydrated was also a very nice addition. The private transport was top class, modern air conditioned vehicles and friendly and helpful drivers. We booked the Luxor / Aswan 2 day tour with overnight stay. Accommodation & Lunch provided was of great quality. The itinerary was jam packed with enough rest breaks. (We even managed to squeeze an extra site in ours - Thanks Waleed & Akram) Although this tour has 100’s miles travel by road & train, we highly recommend Palma Tours and have decided to book a second excursion with them during our holiday.
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