Can anyone recommend the best way to get from Cairo to Luxor?
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Air takes only 1 hr and will certainly be more comfortable than bus during summer season (haven't heard about trains). Egyptair has frequent daily flights. Take a look at their website: http://www.egyptair.com.eg/
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Air is definitely the way to go. I was with a group in Oct that took the train from Cairo to Luxor (then on to Aswan). It's a long train trip (I think about 8 hours), and even 1st class is fairly primitive. Food service on the train is pretty dismal, to boot. We were the only non-Egyptians on the train. Not a problem, but the fact that tourists don't use the train should tell you something!<BR><BR>On the other hand, watching the little villages along the Nile pass by the train windows was fascinating.<BR><BR>Given your relatively tight schedule, however, I'd stick to air travel.
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I'm considering overnight sleeper train travel myself....Given the less-than-flattering comments, perhaps that's rethinking. My logic was that it wasn't taking time & I have a romantic nostalgic attitude to trains. But the disadvantage may be that you don't even get the benefit of seeing the villages along the way, which was the saving feature apparently?
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My husband and I are taking the overnight sleeper train from Cairo to Luxor in October. I have searched a few sights and spoken to a few travel agents in the Uk. A lot of tourists use the overnight sleeper which is all first class, so I don't know whether the guy who said it was full of egyptians went during the day on the normal train. <BR>
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I took the Wagonlit sleeper in 1996 to Aswan and I thought it was adequate. At times it was a bit rough for sleeping, because they kept slamming on the brakes (I don't know why). Bring some snacks with you. Dinner was spaghetti (no sauce) and a banana. At least you can't get sick from that! Smoking was allowed when I went. I was a smoker then, but now that I've quit, it would probably bother me. The only thing I didn't like was that most of the ride was in the dark and I would've liked to see some of middle Egypt. <BR> <BR>If I had to do it again, I'd either fly or take a day train and see something.