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Every moment, land and ship, was an adventure. Elevated from the competition.

Review for a Middle East Cruise on AmaDahlia

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PR the cruise guy from SF
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We chose this cruise because our Virtuoso Agent suggested it might be elevated from our previous river cruises on another cruise line. She was CORRECT! I want to mention two things. I am a cruise professional with 25 years onboard the top luxury ocean lines, so I have been on hundreds of cruises and tours. On our cruise,the tour/ship was less than half- full, perhaps due to the conflicts in ...
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Thank you for your kind words and positive feedback! We’re so happy to hear that you received such excellent service while sailing with us and that everything was to your liking during your...

Sail Date: February 2024

Cabin Type: Outside Stateroom


Amazing Trip of a Lifetime

Review for a Middle East Cruise on S.S. Sphinx

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ram88doc
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

In this review of our Nile river cruise I provided some travel tips and a day by itinerary review. Travel tips Choose a cruise line that will take care of you from arrival to departure. Cairo is a difficult city to visit on your own. This is not a walking city. You will need to negotiate taxi fares everywhere you go. The airports are also much different than other countries and can be ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


Too many passengers

Review for a Middle East Cruise on MSC Virtuosa

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56jab
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

I believe MSC Virtuosa is their largest ship and it was heaving. There was noise everywhere especially in the "marketplace". We decided to get up early so we could have breakfast in the restaurant. The last sitting was at 8.30 which in our view was early. The waiters took your order but everything arrived at the same time be it fruit/yoghurt or omelette or pancakes. The juices and coffee were ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Traveled with disabled person


Egyptian history in a nutshell

Review for a Middle East Cruise on Viking Osiris

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Nameless One
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

The Viking Osiris is a great Nile River ship, intimate, new, and designed for this service. Take advantage of all optional trips, especially the hot air balloon at dawn over the Valley of the Kings and the trip to Abu Simbel. The days are long, with little down time, but you cover a lot of history. The boat is relatively informal, no need to dress for dinner, etc., as you may be just coming ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


Worst cruise experience

Review for a Middle East Cruise on MSC Virtuosa

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Cruiser197073
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

I have been cruising on multiple cruise lines for more than 30 years. This was my first MSC experience and it will be my last. I am a pretty understanding person and always give the benefit of the doubt. As a matter of fact even when I haven’t had a good trip I won’t complain. MSC changed that in me. The service on this ship was absolutely horrible. The staff was rude, unhelpful, uncaring and ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Traveled with disabled person


Huge disappointment

Review for a Middle East Cruise on MSC Virtuosa

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S Cowleard
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

We chose this cruise because it was to celebrate a special birthday and sailing around the Emirates seemed like a special trip. The Ship was too big - 5000 passengers and 1600 crew members. It was full of very rude passengers who treated other people like dirt. Staff said they felt they were treated like 'scum' by most of the passengers. The staff were amazing, especially in the restaurant, ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


The best way to experience the Nile

Review for a Middle East Cruise on Viking Aton

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Mr.Bill1
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

My wife and I are generally ocean cruise fans, but we took this trip in order to explore the history of Egypt. It's hard to imagine a better itinerary than the one organized by Viking. One of the highlights was Nefertari's tomb. Admission is limited to 100 visitors a day, and on the day we visited over half of those were our fellow passengers. The tour guides (Program Directors in Viking ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


Huge disappointment for firm Viking Fans

Review for a World Cruise Cruise on Viking Sky

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DJBKalimna
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Review of Viking Sky 2023/24 World Cruise. For 4 months per year my wife and I have been avid cruisers. Firstly 18 with Azamara, but since their sad decline we switched to Viking. Now with 8 completed, and enjoyed, it was sad to see how far Viking standards have fallen. We found this on our recent segmented 2 legs on this world cruise. This was after we were initially notified that we were ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


Avoid

Review for a Middle East Cruise on MSC Opera

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Philip Flo
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

Trying to escape the winter for a while we booked this cruise. Having been on many excellent MSC cruises before we were pretty disappointed this time. Food at the buffet restaurant: cold, not much choice Food at the restaurant: mixed, usually hot but sometimes not good, fellow passengers even got different meals (not what they had ordered and the waiters insisted that it was correct ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


AZSam

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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CruiseandGo
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Cruised on the Dawn for the itinerary. Staying onboard all the way to Capetown. No complaints at all regarding the ship or the food. The only reason for 4 stars is I believe a 5 star rating is reserved for spectacular cruising and very few cruise ships get that rating. The Dawn has gotten us to all the ports as expected and will do so for the next 2 weeks. Being an older ship, it is very ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


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