The boat is run by Dahabiya 1899 of Luxor, https://www.dahabiya1899.com/. The site footer describes this as a branch of Far and Beyond Travel, https://www.farandbeyondtravel.com/, licensed by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism since 2008 under number 1657. The operator recorded against this vessel on the site remains the placeholder "unknown" and has not been updated.
The starting rate is empty. Both itinerary pages state "Rates on request, contact us." No figure is published anywhere on the operator's site.
Operating status could not be verified. There are no dated departures, no calendar and no bookable dates. The reviews page loads Google reviews through a script, so no review dates could be read, and the Google Maps link behind it requires JavaScript. No third-party listings or TripAdvisor entries were located. The Google business listing at https://g.page/r/CZAAYbYNv82zEAI/review and the Instagram account at instagram.com/dahabiya1899 are the most likely places to find current activity.
The flag and registration are not found. The number 1657 on the site is the travel company licence, not a vessel registration.
Air conditioning is not mentioned. The site lists facilities in detail and never refers to air conditioning or heating. On a four-cabin dahabiya that silence is not resolved by a guess.
The following are not published anywhere on the operator's site: crew count, deck count, pool or jacuzzi, operating season, minimum age and any accessibility statement. Suites are not mentioned. The vessel has three double cabins and one single cabin.
The operator's vessel page states she was built for the Thomas Cook company around 1899, has an iron rather than a wooden hull, is one of six surviving original dahabiyas, was restored in 2000 by Dr Kent Weeks, and was featured in New York Times Great Homes. None of that is confirmed by a second source.
The real seller is CroisiEurope. The only vessel page found anywhere is theirs, in English at https://www.croisieuroperivercruises.com/boat/sb-dahabieh-abydos and in French at https://www.croisieurope.com/bateau/sb-dahabieh-abydos. CroisiEurope carries the boat inside its own fleet under the internal reference T78, so on their own pages it appears as a fleet vessel rather than a third-party charter. No owner company, no Egyptian operator, and no flag or registration detail was found, so the flag and registration are not listed here.
CroisiEurope has not dropped the boat. It was still on their fleet pages at the time of checking, with departures dated October 2026.
The operating season and departure days are not listed here. The only itinerary published is sold as a 10-day package, reference 10D, and it bundles flights and hotel nights at the Winter Palace in Luxor and the Old Cataract in Aswan. The number of nights actually spent on board is not published. Any figure derived by dividing the package duration would be a guess, so we have not done so. The two published departures, 2 and 9 October 2026, both fall on a Friday, but the operator publishes no weekly pattern and two dates are not enough to establish one.
No rate is published on the vessel page. The French page shows a Promo tag on the itinerary with no figure attached. The starting rate is therefore not listed here.
No second independent source confirms Adelaïde is currently sailing. The only current evidence is the operator's own live calendar, which returned two priced five-night departures for her on 12 September 2026. Recent third-party reviews name other boats in the fleet, not Adelaïde.
Cabin count is the main open contradiction. The operator sells ten units, third-party listings say twelve rooms, and the published cabin areas suggest both are describing the same hull. Build year is 2019 or 2020 depending on which third-party page is consulted, and the operator publishes no figure.
No source we read gives a refit year, a crew count for this vessel, a flag or registration, details of a pool, accessibility information, a minimum age policy, charter terms, or a charter rate.
The operator publishes no weekly departure pattern, only dated calendar entries, so no departure days can be stated.
Two operator pages disagree on beam: 8.5 m on the vessel page against 8 m on the fleet index. For that reason beam is not recorded here.
The operator's FAQ page returns an access error to automated retrieval, so the answers given there on wi-fi, air conditioning and single-occupancy supplements could not be read at source.
The operator's own site contradicts itself on the vessel's length. The Agatha page gives 51m x 8.25m. The fleet index and the search card give 52m x 8m. No refit year is published for Agatha or for any vessel. The FAQ describes a "full fleet upgrade" to solar air conditioning but gives no date, so the refit year is empty.
No crew count, deck count or flag and registration is published anywhere on the operator's site.
Nothing on the site mentions a pool, plunge pool or jacuzzi. Silence is not evidence of absence, so the pool field is empty.
Charter is offered but no charter rate and no charter minimum cabin count are published.
Only the Luxury Room price appears on the live search, so the top rate is empty.
Tips are listed as included on the search page and in the main inclusions FAQ, but listed as not included in the cruise overview FAQ at https://nourelnil.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/39508705061645-Can-you-provide-me-more-information-about-the-cruise. These two positions are not reconciled anywhere on the site.
The calendar marks some weeks as high season pricing and a separate FAQ lists the high season weeks for 2026 to 2028, but no high season rate for Agatha is published.
Agatha and Adelaide are both 2020 builds and both start at EUR 5,300 per room, placing them at the same price point in the fleet.
The launch date is unconfirmed. AmaWaterways publishes no launch date on the AmaCleo ship page, on the Egypt landing page, or on the itinerary page. The Egypt landing page does not list AmaCleo at all. Trade press from April 2026 gives 2028; trade press from August 2026 gives autumn 2027. Both figures are secondhand. No year is published here until the operator states one.
The flag, registration, and propulsion are not published anywhere, as would be expected for a ship not yet in service. Propulsion was not assumed. No refit year applies.
The ship page carries no wheelchair, lift, or mobility wording. A search of the EU FAQ page returned only navigation results. There is nothing on accessibility to attribute.
The minimum age policy, charter availability, and charter minimum are not published on any page we read.
The operating season and departure days could not be confirmed for AmaCleo. The only dates published by the operator, September to November 2026, belong to the other three ships in the Egypt fleet, not to AmaCleo. The operator publishes no fixed weekly departure pattern, and the 2026 dates fall on mixed weekdays.
No upper rate was found.
The starting rate is also left empty. The only figure we found is a from price of EUR 6,234 per person shown on the AmaCleo ship page. That figure covers an 11-night package that mixes hotel nights and cruise nights, and it is not specific to AmaCleo as a hull. Because the number of cruise nights within the package is ambiguous, no nightly rate was calculated.
All prices here are in euros. The amawaterways.com domain serves the EU storefront, and the /us/ path returns a 404, so no USD rate was verified.
Source: https://www.amawaterways.com/ships/amacleo.
All nine AmaDahlia departure dates on the AmaWaterways calendar for autumn 2026 fall on a Wednesday, seven days apart. The operator does not state a weekly pattern anywhere, so we have not recorded a departure day. The pattern of Wednesdays is derived from the listed dates, not from any operator statement.
Trade press from August 2026 reports that a reimagined AmaDahlia returns in September 2026, but no source describes what work was carried out, and the operator's ship page does not mention a refit. Because the refit is unconfirmed in its scope, the cabin mix and the 72-guest figure may have changed.
Two figures circulate for guest capacity. CruiseMapper carries 72 in its data table and 68 in its prose. The operator states 72.
Several resellers describe the ship as award-winning. No named award for AmaDahlia appeared in any source we read, so we have not recorded an award.
No source we read publishes anything about full-ship charter for this vessel. The charter rate, the charter minimum and charter availability are all unrecorded for that reason.
Propulsion is not stated by any source we read and has not been assumed.
Pricing is in euros because only the EU storefront was reachable. AmaWaterways publishes EUR 6,234 as a lead-in fare per person, double occupancy, for the whole 11-night package. That package mixes Cairo hotel nights with nights aboard. It is not a per-night rate and it is not a whole-cabin price. The operator does not publish the cruise-only night count, so the figure cannot be converted into either. We have not recorded a starting rate for that reason. Several third-party sites, Cruise Critic, AffordableTours, Atlas Travel and Mundy Cruising, all returned HTTP 403, which limited any second sourcing. The source for the EUR 6,234 figure is https://www.amawaterways.com/river-cruises/africa/egypt. The same problem applies to the AmaLilia record, where the starting rate is unrecorded for the same reason.
No starting rate was filed. The only published price is a per-person package total for the full 11-night programme: "From EUR 6,234" struck through to "EUR 5,384 per person" on the EU storefront. The struck price is a promotional offer and is not usable as a baseline. The EUR 6,234 figure is a per-person package total, which is neither a per-person-per-night rate, a per-cabin rate, nor a whole-boat rate. It cannot be divided safely to produce any of those, because the 11 nights mix Cairo hotel nights with nights aboard and the operator does not state how many nights are spent on the ship. The UK storefront prices the same trip as a fly-cruise with flights included, which is a different product again. A per-cruise-night rate would require the operator to publish the ship-night count separately.
The operator's own page for AmaLilia is at https://www.amawaterways.com/ships/amalilia, which carries the deck plan and specifications. The site currently links to the itinerary page instead.
The flag and registration, the refit year, and the charter arrangements were not found on any operator page. AmaLilia debuted in 2024, so no refit is likely to exist yet.
The operator's site geo-redirects visitors, so only the EUR and GBP storefronts were seen during research. USD pricing was not checked.
No source we read gives a date on which AmaNubia was first announced, and the ship's own page carries no announcement. The earliest dated public item found is a first-look press release covered on 5 and 6 August 2026, which reveals renderings rather than constituting the original announcement, so it was not recorded as the announced date. The same gap exists in the record for AmaCleo.
The starting rate is not filled. The only published price is a per-person package total for the 11-night trip: 5,384 EUR after a strikethrough from 6,234 EUR on the EU storefront. That total covers hotel nights in Cairo as well as nights on board. The operator does not publish the cruise-night split, so the figure cannot be divided into a defensible per-person per-night figure. It is not a per-cabin or whole-boat figure either. The AmaLilia record is empty for the same reason. The price shown on AmaNubia's ship page is the same shared itinerary price, not a ship-specific fare.
The operator's own page for AmaNubia is https://www.amawaterways.com/ships/amanubia, which carries the ship-specific facts. The link we currently hold points at the shared itinerary page rather than that ship page.
Departure days are not filled. AmaNubia's two published 2026 dates, 7 and 14 November, both fall on a Saturday, but fleet dates across September to November 2026 fall on mixed weekdays and the operator publishes no weekly pattern. Two dates are not a pattern.
The operating season is not filled. Only November 2026 dates exist for this ship and no 2027 dates are published, so any season figure would describe the route rather than the vessel.
Propulsion is not filled. No source we read states it. Charter availability, the charter minimum, and the charter rate are not filled. No charter terms are published for the Nile fleet.
Third-party listings disagree on whether AmaNubia has a lift. The ship was not yet in service at the time of research, so this could not be resolved.
CruiseMapper carries a suite breakdown, a gross tonnage of 1,700, and a Cairo shipyard. The operator publishes none of these figures. All three are unconfirmed.
No rate is recorded. The vessel's own website shows three price cards at 470, 370 and 270 US dollars per night, and an accommodations price of 130 dollars per night. All four are WordPress theme demo content. The price cards sit under a Coming Soon heading and their inclusions read Flight Ticket, Restaurant, Music Concert, Airport Pick-up and Sport Activities, which is template text for a resort, not a Nile sailing. The same pages carry lorem ipsum testimonials and a Luxury Resort App download block. Nothing on the site is a published rate.
The awards field is empty for the same reason. The about page shows a Best Award block reading 2020 European Hotel Association 3 Stars, 2022 Michelin Red Guide Leading Hotel, and 2024 Hotel Committee. A boat whose first sailing was announced for November 2025 cannot hold a 2020 hotel award, and the Michelin Red Guide does not name leading hotels. This is template content and none of it was recorded.
Whether the vessel has a pool or a jacuzzi is unresolved because the operator contradicts itself. The about page amenities list says Free pool access and the about and trade copy both say indulge in the sun deck pool. The home page names the same deck feature Jaccuzi and says Enjoy the breathtaking beauty of the Nile as you indulge in the sun deck Jacuzzi, and separately says the Jacuzzi is in every bathroom. One of the two is wrong. A photograph or a deck plan would settle it.
The guest capacity is not recorded. Ten cabins at two per cabin would be twenty, but the operator publishes no capacity figure and the guest dropdown on its own booking form stops at 10, which suggests either single occupancy in some cabins or a lower real capacity. Lobster describes the last four cabins as single while the operator calls them twin bed.
Propulsion, length, the deck count, flag and registration, the operating season, the minimum age policy and accessibility are not published anywhere we could find. Nothing on the site says whether Cleo carries sails, is towed or runs an engine, so propulsion is unrecorded despite the dahabiya class.
No guest review of this vessel exists in any source we read. There is no TripAdvisor page, no blog account and no third-party reseller listing. That is consistent with a boat in its first year, and it is why operating status remains unverified.
The operator's page for this vessel at https://melctravel.com/cleo-queen-of-the-nile/ renders an empty body. The header, footer and page title load but the content area is blank. The operator's own page for the vessel is therefore recorded as cleodahabeya.com. The operator is MELC Travel Group, which is correct. The vessel site footer reads Middle East Logistics and Consultant Group, Melc Group.
The operator publishes no build details beyond the year, no refit year, no crew count, no deck count, and no flag or registration for Dendera.
No source we read gives any information on a pool or plunge pool, so that field is left empty rather than set to none.
The departure day field is also left empty. The operator's FAQ article 39508705061645 lists Monday departures for El Nil, Malouka, Adelaide, Poppee and Najafa, and Tuesday departures for Meroe, Agatha and Roman. Dendera does not appear in that table. Both live Dendera departures shown for 12 September 2026 start on a Tuesday, but two dated calendar entries do not constitute a published weekly pattern.
Cabin count, rates and operating status all rest on operator-published pages only. Dendera entered service in 2026 and we did not find any third-party listing or dated guest review naming the vessel.
The operator's Zendesk help centre returns a 403 error to automated retrieval. All FAQ content cited here was read through the public API at https://nourelnil.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles.json. The article URLs cited elsewhere on this page are the human-readable pages for the same articles.
The operator describes Dendera as its flagship and prices it above every other vessel in the fleet. Its hull is 52 metres, which is shorter than Najafa, Poppee and Roman, each of which measures 60 metres.
The boat page lists 2 Panoramic Rooms, 7 Rooms and 1 Cabin, giving a total of 10 units. The booking search card for the same boat says 9 Rooms and 20 Guests, which does not reconcile with the operator's own stated limit of 2 guests per room. The unnamed Cabin has no description, no bed configuration and no square metre figure on the boat page, unlike the Panoramic Room at 14.00 m2 and the Room at 11.40 m2. It may be a single, or it may not be sold to guests at all. The cabin count we publish requires a decision on how to treat that unit.
The boat page gives the vessel's dimensions as 45m x 7.5m. The fleet index and the booking search card both give 43m x 6.7m. These figures do not reconcile and no third source resolves them.
No refit year is published anywhere. The operator describes a full fleet upgrade to solar and battery air conditioning that includes El Nil, but gives no year for it, so the refit year is blank.
The crew count, deck count and flag of registration are not published per vessel. Whether the boat has a pool or jacuzzi is also not stated. Swimming is in the river, on days 3 and 5 of the itinerary.
El Nil appeared in the live booking search for one week only, 14 to 19 September, while other boats in the fleet appeared across all three weeks the search returned. That may reflect sold-out weeks rather than a vessel that is laid up.
The operator's own description calls El Nil the most traditional of its dahabiyas, with smaller cabins and original bathrooms rather than the updated bathrooms listed on the newer hulls. This is a positioning signal relevant to any comparison across the fleet, not an assessment of quality.
The operator of Hadeel is not identified. No company name, trading name or registration number appears on the operator's own site at https://dahabiyya.com/, which covers this vessel only. The about us page gives a Cairo postal address: Building No3, Division 1165 Sheraton, Heliopolis, Postal Code 11799, Cairo. TripAdvisor reviewers name a man called Ali as the owner and a person called Perry as an organiser. That is hearsay from reviewers, not a verified source, so we have not used those names.
No rate is published on the operator's own site, so we could not establish a starting rate or a top rate.
Hadeel is listed by several third-party sellers, including Audley Travel at https://www.audleytravel.com/egypt/egypt-cruises/hadeel-dahabiyya, Corinthian Travel at https://www.corinthiantravel.co.uk/private-charters/hadeel-dahabiya-egypt/, The Ultimate Travel Company at https://www.theultimatetravelcompany.co.uk/destinations/north-africa-middle-east/egypt/dahabiya-hadeel and Discover Egypt at https://www.discoveregypt.co.uk/boat/hadeel-dahabiya/35. We did not open those pages, so we cannot confirm what booking terms or rates they quote.
The flag and registration are not stated anywhere we read.
DuckDuckGo served a captcha and Mojeek returned an HTTP 403 error during research, leaving a single Brave search results page as the source for this vessel. The pages we were able to read were that search page, the operator's home page, the about us page and the TripAdvisor listing. Any field not covered by those four pages was not resolvable from the sources available to us.
We did not reach any source that confirms the details of Historia during this research pass.
Five domain names were probed directly: historianilecruise.com, historianile.com, historiacruise.com, historianilecruises.com and nilehistoria.com. All five returned DNS failures. No host exists at any of them.
On aggregators, cruisemapper.com/ships?q=historia returned the generic ship index with no entry for Historia or Storia. egypttoursportal.com/nile-cruises/historia-nile-cruise/ returned a 404, and the parent index egypttoursportal.com/nile-cruises/ also returned a 404, so no ship listings from that site were readable. A guessed URL at booking.com for a listing named "historia-the-boutique-hotel-nile-cruise" returned an empty body. That is how Booking.com blocks automated requests, so it is not proof the listing is absent.
Search engines produced no usable results. Bing, geolocated to Germany, returned Historia Auktionshaus and a German history magazine. Forcing the market to en-US returned a results shell with no organic links. DuckDuckGo Lite returned HTTP 202, a challenge page. Ecosia returned 403. The SearXNG instance at search.inetol.net returned a security check page.
Because no source was reached that names an operator, the operator is unknown. The operator's own page is unknown. The flag and registration are unknown. The relationship between the names Historia and Storia is unresolved. No source we read ties the two names to one hull or separates them, so neither reading has been recorded.
No source we read gives a starting rate. Both routes show "Price upon request" on the journeys page and there is no rates page in the site navigation. The only figure found anywhere is a third-party broker price of USD 180,000, given both as a per-week figure and as a 5-night itinerary figure. It is a whole-boat figure and cannot be converted into a per-person, per-night rate, so no starting rate is published here.
The suite count cannot be settled from published sources. The operator states nine air-conditioned units for Arax without a breakdown. Charter and Dreams says nine cabins made up of standard cabins, three spacious suites and an owner's suite. Two reseller pages say five cabins of 26 sqm, two suites of 39 sqm and a 140 sqm owner's suite, which totals eight units. Red Savannah calls all nine of them suites.
No weekly departure pattern and no dated calendar appear on the journeys page or either itinerary page, so departure days are not established.
The FAQ says peak seasons are from September to April but names no closure month, so the operating season is not established.
The flag and registration, the refit year, accessibility information and the minimum age policy were not found on the operator site or on five adviser and reseller pages. A broker listing gives a launch date of 2024, which would make a refit unlikely, but that is not evidence of the vessel's registration or accessibility arrangements.
The operator markets Arax as a private yacht with a 1:1 crew ratio and sells only by email, which places it closer to a charter product than a scheduled river ship.
No rate is published anywhere. The journeys page says "Price upon request" for both routes and there is no rates page. Corinthian Travel shows only a price band of five dollar signs, with no figure. Red Savannah and Black Tomato publish no figure. For these reasons the starting rate, the top rate and the charter rate are all empty.
No departure days or dated calendar exist on the operator site, so departure days are empty.
The FAQ says only that "Peak seasons are from September to April" and names no closure month. We did not read that statement as confirming the operating season, so the operating season is empty.
No source we read gives a launch year, a refit year, a deck count, a flag or registration, a minimum age policy, or a charter minimum.
No accessibility statement was found on the operator site or on four advisor pages, so accessibility is empty.
Sources disagree on propulsion; see the note on that field.
Advisor sites describe Berge as a dahabiya while the operator calls it a custom-built sailing yacht.
Kemet is the name of the hull. Kemetale is the company name. The operator's own Nile Sailing page refers to "our dahabeya sailboat, named Kemet", and the founders trade as Kemetale. Third-party listings use the two names loosely. Tripadvisor lists the boat under the company name Kemetale, which is why that spelling appears as an alternative name for the vessel.
No rate is published on any page the operator controls. The reservations site prices trips only after an inquiry. Corinthian Travel shows a charter price guide of three dollar signs with no figure attached. The operator's FAQ implies that charter and room pricing are separate, because its cancellation fees differ: 3,000 USD for a charter booking and 300 USD for a room booking. Those are cancellation fees, not rates. A third-party activity listing was seen at 3,333 USD per adult for five days and four nights, but it does not name the vessel, so it was not used.
Air conditioning is not mentioned on any page or in the 2026 brochure. This is a material omission for a dahabiya.
No source we read gives a build year, a launch year, a refit year, a flag, a registration, a pool, or any accessibility statement. The FAQ does not address mobility at all.
No fixed weekly departure pattern is published. The booking site works from individually dated trips, so no departure days could be established.
Egitalloyd carries a Kemet page whose suite names and descriptions are word for word those in the operator's brochure. It was treated as the same source and not counted as independent corroboration.
The operator's own pages are thin on specification. Almost every hard number we found comes from the 2026 brochure PDF or from Corinthian Travel.
This boat has no page of its own. The French operator homepage at lazulinil.com names Karnak in its fleet list. The English domain lazulinile.com is the same company at the same Cairo address, but its fleet page names only Albatros. The operator's own page cited for this vessel is therefore the French homepage.
The operator contradicts itself on fleet size. The French homepage now says a fleet of 8 dahabiehs while naming 11 boats on the same page. A different page on the same site gave 9 dahabiehs. Three figures appear on one site.
Ownership is not verified at hull level. Both legal notices pages, https://lazulinil.com/mentions-legales/ and https://lazulinile.com/legal-notices.html, give the company as Lazuli, Egyptian trade registry number 525740783, registered at Abbrag El Moltakka, Abbasseya Square, Cairo, capital 1 million Egyptian pounds, manager Yasmina Tawfik. Neither page names which hulls the company owns. Cazenove+Loyd names Wally Aziz, an Egyptian entrepreneur and former Egyptologist guide, as the founder, and the English site carries a Wally Aziz Group logo. That points to a group structure behind the Lazuli brand. The operator is recorded as Lazuli.
No vessel flag or registry number appears on either legal notices page, on any operator page, or on any third-party listing we read. The flag and registration are therefore not recorded.
No launch year is recorded for this vessel. Cazenove+Loyd states that the fleet was launched on the Nile in 2001. That date refers to the fleet, not to this hull.
No departure days are recorded. One aggregator publishes a weekly pattern of Sunday and Monday departures from Esna and Friday from Aswan. No operator page publishes any weekly pattern, and we record only operator-published patterns.
Web search was unavailable during this research session, which limited the search for a dated guest review within the past six months to pages already known. Fleewinter returned HTTP 403 and could not be read.
No source we read gives a flag, registration or hull identifier for this vessel. Ownership is unverified. The operator's legal notices name the company Lazuli with Egyptian trade registry 525740783, but no page ties that entity to this hull.
The operator does not appear to maintain a dedicated page for this vessel. It is named once, in a homepage fleet list on the French-language domain, and not at all on the English-language domain, which lists only Albatros. Fleet size is contradicted four ways across the operator's own pages: figures of 8, 9 and 11 appear on the French site, and 9 appears on the advisor page.
The advisor page states that Wally Aziz launched the fleet in 2001. That is a fleet date, not a launch year for this hull, so we did not record a launch year.
Two sources describe the vessel as twin-masted, but neither states whether it sails under its own canvas or is towed, so propulsion is not recorded.
We did not record departure days. The aggregator publishes Sunday and Monday departures from Esna and Friday from Aswan, but the operator publishes no weekly pattern, and we require the operator as the source for that field.
We did not record an operating season. The operator publishes a May to September summer programme at https://lazulinil.com/les-croisieres/nos-croisieres-estivales/, but that is one product, not the full sailing season, and it names no individual boats. Timbuktu Travel lists a generic Lazuli Dahabiya with six rooms but does not name Luxor, so that listing was not used.
The operator's own site contradicts itself on the vessel's length. The fleet index and the booking engine give 50m x 7.7m. The Malouka boat page gives 52m x 7.5m. Third-party pages give 52m but appear to be copies of older operator text. Nour El Nil has not resolved this publicly.
No refit year is published for any boat in the fleet. The only hint for Malouka is the booking engine card, which lists Original Bathrooms for Malouka and El Nil and Updated Bathrooms for every boat from 2017 onward. The 2026 fleet-wide switch to solar and battery air conditioning also reached Malouka, but the operator gives no date for it. The refit year has been left empty.
The operator publishes nothing about a pool or jacuzzi on Malouka. The only source that lists a pool is a reseller amenity checklist that is not reliable at that level of detail. We did not fill this as none, because the operator has not confirmed the absence.
The crew count, deck count and flag and registration are not published per vessel. The operator states only that it employs over 100 Egyptians across the fleet. A 2024 guest account implies three levels, with cabins and a library below, a dining tent above, and a top deck, but we did not derive the deck count from a single blog post.
Operating status is recorded as sailing on the strength of two live, bookable Malouka departures, 14 to 19 September 2026 and 21 to 26 September 2026, both priced and showing three rooms free. No guest review naming Malouka within the last six months was found. The most recent review found covers November 2025 travel.
Charter is offered across all nine boats, but no charter rate and no minimum cabin count are published. Both values have been left empty.
Malouka is positioned by the operator as the budget and character end of the fleet. Its own page describes the cabins as compact and states that the boat is less spacious than the newer boats. Its 13.40 m2 Luxury Room is the smallest cabin in the fleet apart from El Nil. The 2008 build date and the original bathrooms designation are relevant to how the boat is described.
No refit year is published for Meroe anywhere on the operator's site or in the 44-article FAQ, so the refit year is blank. Two things would count as candidates if a year ever surfaces. The Meroe booking card lists updated bathrooms, and the air conditioning FAQ describes a full fleet upgrade to solar and battery-powered 24/7 air conditioning across all eight older boats. Neither carries a date.
No crew count is published per vessel. The operator states only that it employs over 100 Egyptians across the whole company.
No deck count is published. The mobility FAQ says the boats are multi-level and connected by stairs but gives no number.
No flag or registration detail is published. The operator states that its governing law is Egypt, which is not the same thing.
The operator contradicts itself on Meroe's hull dimensions. The boat page says 55m x 8.5m, while the fleet index and the live search card both say 52m x 8m. The same pattern appears on Adelaide, Malouka, Agatha and El Nil, so this looks like a site-wide data problem rather than an error specific to Meroe.
Operating status rests on the operator's own live calendar only. On 12 September 2026 the only bookable Meroe departure shown was 22 to 27 September 2026, with 7 of 10 rooms still open, while six other boats in the fleet showed two or three bookable weeks. That may reflect the search window rather than reduced operation.
Searches for a dated 2026 guest review naming Meroe found none. The nearest result was a TripAdvisor photo caption.
The operator positions Meroe as its mid-fleet boat, ninth of nine by age and fourth cheapest of nine on the published starting rate, with the largest Luxury Room relative to price among the older hulls.
Molouky is operated by Dahabeyat, dahabeyat.com, address Travco Center, 26th of July Corridor, Sheikh Zayed City, Giza 12588, Egypt, info@dahabeyat.com, +20 127 999 9872, hotline 19380. No operator record has been created for this vessel on the site yet.
Dahabeyat appears to be a Travco or Jaz brand rather than an independent dahabiya house. The site footer links to linkedin.com/company/jazhotelgroup and to the JazHotelsandResorts YouTube channel, and the postal address is the Travco Center. The corporate structure was not confirmed, only those links.
The Dahabeyat fleet consists of Molouky, Yakouta, and Farouz El Nil. Molouky and Yakouta are sister ships that share one suites page and one deck plan. Every specification recorded for Molouky comes from a page that covers both vessels together, so none of it is confirmed for this hull alone. It is not known which figures, if any, differ between the two.
Farouz El Nil appears to be off sale. Its entry in the Select Liner dropdown is commented out in the page source, and its embarkation dates page states that dates are not available. Molouky and Yakouta is the only selectable liner. That is not evidence that Molouky sails; it is only evidence that it is the one the operator is still offering.
The Molouky embarkation dates page and the calendar endpoint behind it both return HTTP 500, so no bookable date can be read from outside the operator. The operating status is therefore unconfirmed.
The flag and registration are not published anywhere on the operator site. No rates, no launch year, and no refit year are published either.
The domain molouky.com is registered and redirects via 301 to dahabeyat.com.
The operator contradicts itself on cabin count. The Najafa boat page and the fleet index both list 2 Panoramic Suites, 2 Deluxe Suites and 6 Luxury Rooms, giving a total of 10. The search card for Najafa reads 9 Rooms, while the identically configured Poppee, Roman and Adelaide cards each read 10 Rooms. This appears to be an operator typo on the search card, but it is unresolved. No independent second source exists for the cabin count, rates or operating status.
Najafa was built in 2025 and has almost no third-party coverage. i-escape returned an HTTP 403 and no dated guest review naming Najafa was found.
The operator publishes no crew count, no refit year, no deck count and no flag or registration for any vessel.
No pool or jacuzzi is mentioned anywhere on the boat page or in the FAQ. The pool field was left empty rather than set to none, because the absence of a mention does not confirm the absence of a feature.
Charter is whole-boat only and charter pricing is not published, so the charter rate is not listed. The charter minimum cabin count is also not listed. Were it to be derived, it would follow the cabin count, which is itself disputed.
Deluxe Suites exist on this vessel, so the fleet-wide rule for Deluxe Suites applies here. Each Deluxe Suite comprises two rooms with a private salon and cannot accommodate more than 4 guests, with no extra bed possible above that number.
Rates are published per room for the whole five-night cruise, not per person per night.
The flag and registration, the refit year, the charter rate, the charter minimum, and the departure days are all empty because no source we read gives any of those details.
A&K publishes a staff-to-guest ratio of 1.5 to 1 for 64 guests, which implies roughly 96 crew, but that figure is arithmetic applied to a marketing ratio, not a published crew count, so we have left the crew count empty.
No fixed weekly departure pattern is published for the A&K Egypt fleet, and there is no live calendar, so the departure days are empty.
The operating status could not be confirmed. The vessel has not entered service. A&K's own rate table prices nothing before 1 November 2026, which is the strongest evidence that service begins in November 2026. A&K's other published material refers to October 2026 in some places, creating a conflict that the rate table alone does not resolve. We did not find an enum value that covers a ship still fitting out, so the operating status remains unverified.
A&K's two published documents disagree on the minimum age policy: the web page states 6, the PDF guide states 10. We did not find a third source that resolves the contradiction.
Vuut and Nuut are the same boat. The operator's own page at the address containing the spelling /nuun-and-vuut-dahabyas/ uses "Vuut", but that page is titled "Nuun and Nuut Dahabiyas Features" and the /nuun/ page names the pair Nuun and Nuut. Every third party consulted calls the pair Nuun and Nuut. Vuut appears to be a typo in the page address, not a separate hull.
Nothing on ashranda.com is stated per boat. Every fact published there, including the details used to establish air conditioning and wi-fi, covers the pair as a unit, so those details are assumed to apply to Nuun. The same assumption, and the same caveat, applies to Nuut.
The guest capacity is not published. Maxim Tours and Memphis Tours both mention a maximum of 12 persons, but both frame that figure as a small group tour size rather than a berth count. Six cabins plus two suites would normally sleep 16. Neither figure is safe to publish.
The operator publishes no departure pattern. Egypt Time Travel states that the three-night Aswan departure runs every Thursday and the four-night Esna departure every Monday. Egypt Tours Plus states that the seven-night Luxor round trip runs every Thursday. Two different cruises both assigned to Thursday may reflect a copy error at one of those sellers.
No charter terms were found. Several agents state that a four-night cruise requires at least two double cabins booked, a three-night cruise requires at least three cabins, and a seven-night cruise requires at least one double suite. Those are minimums to guarantee a place on a shared departure, not terms for exclusive use of the boat. No whole-boat price and no charter statement appears anywhere. Memphis Tours presents the boat as a shared departure.
No minimum age is stated by any source. Child pricing contradicts itself between sellers. Memphis Tours UK states that children under four travel free, that a maximum of one child is permitted, and that children aged four to eleven pay fifty per cent of the adult fare. Egypt Time Travel states that children aged zero to one travel free, that children aged two to five pay twenty-five per cent of the adult fare, and that children aged six to eleven pay fifty per cent.
No source we read gives the flag or registration, launch year, refit year, crew count, length, deck count, propulsion type, presence of a pool or jacuzzi, or any accessibility statement for this hull. The operator site carries no deck plan and no fact sheet. memphistours.com returns a 403 error to automated retrieval; memphistours.co.uk serves the same content and was used in its place.
Vuut and Nuut are the same boat. The operator's own URL reads nuun-and-vuut-dahabyas, but the page title and heading on that same page read Nuut, and every agent that sells the boat spells it Nuut. Vuut is a typo in the URL. There is no seventh hull.
Whether Nuut is a distinct hull from Nuun, or a second name for one boat, is unresolved. Ashranda publishes no fact about Nuut alone. Every specification, itinerary and price found anywhere is written for Nuun and Nuut jointly. Agents describe them as twin sister boats, which points to two hulls, but no source separates them. Every field in this record other than the operator's own page should be read as a fact about the pair, not about Nuut alone.
The cabin count is contradicted four ways. Memphis Tours, egypttimetravel and maxim-tours all say 6 cabins plus 2 suites, giving 8 in total. timbuktutravel says 6 rooms in total. bastettravel says six suites and no more than twelve guests. semelegantvoyage says 8 cabins and 16 passengers per boat. The three sources that agree share identical wording and are probably copying one upstream brochure. We recorded 8 cabins. The guest capacity is left empty because 12 persons and 8 rooms do not fit together and no source resolves the conflict.
No starting rate or top rate is recorded. Ashranda publishes no rates and has no rates page. Agents publish per-person package totals. egypttimetravel shows USD 1,157 for a cruise the source describes as 4 to 5 days, so the night count is ambiguous and the total cannot be divided into a nightly figure. Memphis Tours shows USD 2,639 to 3,129 for the 8-day cruise and USD 1,890 to 2,437 for single occupancy. bastettravel shows USD 1,666 for 4 nights. semelegantvoyage shows EUR 2,190 for 6 nights. timbuktutravel shows from USD 1,100 per person per night, which is roughly three times every package total once divided, so that label appears wrong and we did not use it.
The departure days are published by agents but not by the operator, so that field is empty. egypttimetravel states Thursday for the Aswan start and Monday for the Esna start. The operating season is also empty. Two low-quality pages say October to April, and one of them also sells May to September at a discount, which contradicts the October-to-April claim.
semelegantvoyage.com carries specific figures that no other source supports, including a length of 55 metres, a 9-metre beam, two decks, a jacuzzi, 12 crew and cabin sizes in square metres. It also assigns a distinct colour scheme to each boat. We treated it as unreliable and used none of it. The same judgement applies to bastettravel.com.
Operating status is unverified. The newest review we found anywhere is from January 2024. memphistours.com returns a 403 error, but memphistours.co.uk serves the same content and was used instead.
Every source that describes the hull calls it a dahabiya or a sailboat, not a motor ship. Oberoi's own wording is "our sailboats". Egyptian Streets calls it a two-masted Egyptian sailing boat. NileShips lists it as S/B. This looks like a dahabiya rather than a motor cruiser, and it is much smaller than the Zahra and Philae.
The operator's own page at https://www.oberoihotels.com/the-oberoi-malaket/ returns HTTP 404. There is no dedicated Oberoi page for this vessel. Everything official comes from one combined Melouk and Malekat entry on Oberoi's upcoming hotels page.
Almost every figure is published for the pair, not for this hull alone. Where a source treats the two vessels together, that is noted in the relevant entry.
The launch date has slipped twice. Oberoi announced January 2025 for an October 2025 launch, then revised to late 2025, and now says late 2026.
No rate is published anywhere. Oberoi keeps rates inside its booking engine, and there is no booking engine entry for a vessel that has not launched. NileShips shows price on request. The starting rate, the top rate and the charter rate are therefore unknown.
NileShips gives a build year of 2025, which contradicts the current late 2026 launch date. We have not recorded either figure, as neither can be defended at present.
No source we read gives the flag and registration, the crew count, the deck count, wifi provision, accessibility details, departure days, the operating season, the charter minimum, booking channels, the minimum age policy, or any refit year.
Every source we read calls these vessels dahabeyas or dahabiyas. Oberoi itself calls them sailboats, and one of the alternative spellings on record is "Melouk Dahabeya." The vessel is filed here as an announced motor cruiser, but that classification sits in tension with how every source, including Oberoi, describes it.
Oberoi has no dedicated page for Melouk. The only mention on the operator's own site is a combined entry, "The Oberoi Melouk & Malekat, Luxury Nile Dahabeyas," at https://www.oberoihotels.com/upcoming-hotels/. We checked four plausible vessel URLs following the pattern used by Oberoi's Philae and Zahra pages. All four returned a 404 redirect. The operator's page listed for this vessel is therefore the Oberoi homepage, not a vessel-specific page. Malekat is being researched separately. Almost every value available for Melouk is published by sources for the two hulls as a pair, and is recorded on that basis.
No rate is published anywhere for this vessel. Oberoi publishes rates only inside its booking engine, and that engine does not list Melouk. Third-party agents show "price on request." The starting rate, the top rate, and the charter rate are all unknown.
We did not find the flag and registration, crew count, deck count, wi-fi provision, accessibility information, departure days, operating season, charter terms, minimum age policy, or a breakdown of inclusions and exclusions. No booking URL exists.
The four- and six-night voyage lengths come from launch coverage published in February 2025, written when the debut was still expected in late 2025. These figures should be treated as provisional until Oberoi publishes an itinerary page.
The 55-metre length figure rests on a single travel agency blog. No second source confirms it, and we did not find it on the operator's own site.
The operator's own page for Poppee resolves correctly and was not changed.
No refit year is published for Poppee on the operator site or its FAQ. The FAQ mentions a fleet-wide upgrade to solar-powered air conditioning but gives no year, so this cannot be treated as a refit date. The boat was built in 2024, which also makes a refit year unlikely at this stage.
No crew count, deck count, flag, or registration is published for Poppee anywhere on the operator site or its FAQ.
The operator publishes rates only as a starting figure per room. No upper rate or charter rate appears anywhere we read.
No pool or plunge pool is mentioned on the boat page, in the booking card amenity list, or in any guest account we read. Swimming appears to take place in the Nile. However, no source states explicitly that there is no pool, so we have not recorded the answer as none.
The operator contradicts itself on tipping. One booking card and one FAQ article describe tips as included. A separate FAQ article describes them as excluded. We have not resolved this contradiction.
The two age-policy tables published in the operator's FAQ disagree on the composition of the fleet. One lists a 2025 boat as TBD and does not mention Dendera or Assouan. The other adds Dendera 2026 and Assouan 2005. Both tables agree that Poppee was built in 2024.
No source we read links Princess Farida to a boat called Queen Farida. The operator's site never names a sister vessel and never names a parent company. The site does include a suite called the Queen Farida Suite, one of eight suites named for members of the Egyptian royal family, so a careless source could conflate the two boats on that word alone. The registered address is Al-Firdous Tower, Al-Fayrouz District, Luxor, with a single mobile reservations number. Nothing on ownership was published.
Propulsion is not listed. The operator's FAQ defines a dahabiya in general as a wooden traditional Egyptian sailing boat, but the site never states whether this hull carries working sails or is towed. The technical page lists two 145 KW generators and no rig. Describing it as sail or sail-assisted would be a guess.
The crew count is not listed. A search snippet referred to a 22-person crew from a guest review, and a TripAdvisor summary mentioned roughly 1.5 to 2 staff per guest, but neither could be traced to a quotable line in the source itself.
No refit year applies. The operator gives a year built of 2024, so the vessel is approximately two years old.
No charter rate is published. The charter page sells 3, 4 and 7-night bookings for the whole boat with a customisable route and asks the guest to call. No charter minimum cabin count is stated.
The guest capacity requires explanation. The operator states 16 to 18 on the home page and FAQ, prints a Max People 20 badge on the itinerary and charter pages, and its restaurant seats 16 to 18. Eight suites at double occupancy gives 16. The figure we publish comes from the operator, but the operator gives three different numbers across its own pages.
The sailing dates page resembles an availability calendar but is a JavaScript loop that prints every Monday or Friday of whichever year the visitor selects, across 2025, 2026 and 2027. It is evidence of a weekly departure pattern and no evidence of a bookable date.
The facilities page claims experienced onboard medical staff available around the clock. The FAQ on the same site states the boat is not staffed with medical professionals and carries basic first aid only. The FAQ is the more plausible of the two. A guest reading the facilities page is being told something the operator contradicts elsewhere.
Accessibility is not addressed anywhere on the site. The vessel is a two-deck wooden boat with shore landings at Gebel el-Silsila and a caleche ride at Edfu.
Our record calls this boat a sister to Princess Farida. The operator site does not support that. It pairs Queen Farida with a second boat called Queen of Egypt and never mentions Princess Farida, which trades on its own domain at princessfarida.com. The Egyptian contact is El Farida Company and the German contact is Jeska Inspiration, whose own site at aegypten-reisen24.com carries the same vessel pages. Whether El Farida Company also owns Princess Farida is unresolved.
No rate is published. Both operator itinerary pages say price on request. The only figures we found are package totals that cannot be converted: Egyvacations shows from 1,350 USD with no basis or night count stated, and Saga sells an 11-day escorted tour containing 5 cruise nights at 4,995 to 6,095 GBP per person including flights and 5 hotel nights. Neither figure is a vessel rate, so the starting rate, top rate and charter rate are not published here.
Charter is unresolved. Nothing on the operator site offers Queen Farida as a whole-boat charter. The only minimum party size published on the site, six persons, is attached to the Queen of Egypt 7-night cruise, not this boat. The charter minimum is therefore left blank rather than recorded as unavailable.
No source we read gives a build or launch year, a refit year, a flag and registration, a crew count as a number, or a deck count. Titan Travel gives a crew-to-guest ratio of 1 to 1 but no headcount. Accessibility is left blank because no source states anything factual about step-free access, stairs between decks or an accessible cabin, and boarding is from the bank or from islands.
The operator's own itinerary pages still print a season of 1 October 2024 to 31 December 2025. The site is not being kept current. The operating season is therefore left blank, even though Saga's dated departures run September to November and January to May.
The site's record names this vessel Queen Isis. Rivages du Monde calls it Queen Isis II and dates its construction to 2023. Either the site's name is a short form of theirs, or there is an older Queen Isis that this newer vessel replaced. No source we read resolves this either way.
Rivages du Monde currently publishes zero Egypt departures. Their Egypte destination page returns no cruises for any vessel. This may mean they have dropped the Nile programme, or it may be a seasonal or technical gap. It does not by itself indicate a change in this vessel's operating status.
The operator recorded is Rivages du Monde, which is a French seller. No owner or Egyptian operator was identified, and the page carries no ownership information. The flag and registration were not found. No source we read gives them.
The deck count is unresolved. The spec block states that cabins are spread over two decks, while the same page separately names three decks: Pont Principal, Pont Supérieur and Pont Soleil. Those two readings give different numbers, and we did not find a source that settles the discrepancy.
Everything above comes from direct retrieval of Rivages du Monde pages.
The operator's own page for Roman is at https://www.nourelnil.com/boats-roman/ and the page title confirms the vessel name.
Hull dimensions are disputed within the operator's own site. The Roman boat page states 59m x 9m. The fleet index and the search card both state 60m x 8m. Two of the three surfaces carry the 60m x 8m figure, but the discrepancy is unresolved.
Tips are listed as included on the search card and in one FAQ, and as not included in a second FAQ. Both FAQs carry an August 2026 update date. The contradiction stands.
No refit year is published anywhere on the site. An air conditioning FAQ describes a full fleet upgrade to solar-powered air conditioning but gives no year for when this took place.
No crew count, deck count, pool, flag of registration or charter rate is published for Roman or for any other vessel in the fleet.
The operator publishes only a starting per-room rate. No upper rate is given.
Cabin count and the published rate rest entirely on Nour El Nil's own pages. No independent listing of Roman was found. One aggregator, i-escape, returned an HTTP 403 response and could not be read. No other aggregator names the vessel.
Guest reviews for Roman exist on TripAdvisor, including one with a May 2026 travel date, but TripAdvisor aggregates all nine Nour El Nil boats under a single listing, so the reviews cannot be attributed to Roman alone.
The refit year is unresolved. CruiseMapper and Adventure Life state the vessel was last renovated in 2009. Wilderness Travel states it was renovated in 2019. Neither date is confirmed by Abercrombie & Kent, which publishes no refit year for this vessel.
No fixed weekly departure pattern is published by Abercrombie & Kent, so we did not record one. A reseller snippet claims a Friday three-night and Monday four-night pattern, which Abercrombie & Kent does not support.
The flag and registration are not stated anywhere we read.
The charter rate and charter minimum are not published.
Abercrombie & Kent's rate table for Nile Adventurer uses the same cabin category names as Sun Boat IV, those being Nile, Main, Bridge and Promenade Deck, while the prose description calls them Standard Cabins. The lowest figure in the Nile Adventurer table, USD 1,654, is the same number the Sun Boat IV table carries for its Nile Deck low season. The remainder of the two tables differ, so this appears to reflect shared low-season pricing rather than a duplicated table.
Cabin count is the main unresolved point. A&K's current spec sheet and deck plan state 16 cabins and 32 guests. A&K's own cabin copy reads "The 14 luxury cabins". A&K's booking inventory carries category totals that sum to 18. CruiseMapper, Steppes Travel, Adventure Life and Africa Odyssey all state 18 cabins and 36 guests. A refit that removed two cabins would explain the discrepancy, but no source states that one took place.
The refit year is not published by the operator. CruiseMapper gives 2009. Several sellers say the vessel was fully renovated in 2005. Because the sources conflict and the operator publishes nothing, we left the refit year blank.
The crew count is not published by the operator. CruiseMapper gives 45. Tripadvisor gives 40. We left the figure blank because the sources conflict and no operator figure exists to resolve them.
The flag and registration are not published on any source we read.
No starting or top cabin rate is available. The vessel's rate panel on the A&K page reads "Please enquire for rates" for all four cabin categories. The only A&K prices we found that are tied to this vessel are whole-journey prices for the 13-day Ultimate Egypt small group journey. Those prices include flights, hotels and land arrangements and are not cabin rates.
Departure days follow no published weekly pattern. A&K publishes dated departures for the charter journey but does not state which days of the week sailings begin.
The operating season is not stated by A&K. Third-party sources disagree with each other. Africa Odyssey states the vessel is closed for maintenance in August. Steppes Travel states there are no departures in June. A&K's own published 2027 departures run from February to November.
The cabin count is the main unresolved item. A&K states 38 cabins and 76 guests on its vessel page, in its FAQ, and in its riverboat guide fact sheet. Its short property description splits that same total as 34 cabins plus 4 suites. Every third-party source gives a different figure. CruiseMapper and Adventure Life say 40 cabins and 80 guests. Tripadvisor says 26 cabins and 70 crew. A 2015 Wexas review says 40 cabins. The third-party figures also carry 5 decks and three different crew counts, which suggests they are stale.
The crew count is unresolved. CruiseMapper says 75, Tripadvisor says 70, a Travel Weekly snippet says 55, and A&K publishes nothing on this point.
The flag and registration are unresolved. A Travel Weekly search snippet gave Egypt, but the page itself returned a 403 error, so nothing was confirmed.
The refit year rests on a single undated database entry giving 2006. That figure should be treated as soft.
No departure days are listed. A&K's published 2026 departures run every four days and rotate through the week, with embarkation dates including 22 September, 26 September, and 30 September 2026. There is no fixed weekly pattern.
No awards are listed. A&K's own page title, meta description, and image alt text all use the phrase "Award-Winning", but no award name or year appears anywhere on the page, and no specific award was found for this vessel.
The charter rate and charter minimum are unresolved. Charter is offered across the A&K fleet, but no price or cabin minimum is published.
This is the largest vessel in the A&K Egypt fleet and the only one of the five with a fully published rate table.
No rate is published anywhere. The operator's site has no rate page and directs all enquiries to reservations@moudira.com. Corinthian Travel shows a price band of three dollar signs and no figure. The starting rate, top rate and charter rate are all empty rather than guessed.
The build year is unresolved. The operator states the vessel is nearly ninety years old, which, from a page last updated in November 2025, points to the mid-1930s. Corinthian Travel states approximately a hundred years old and places the origin in the early 1920s. Neither source gives a specific year, so no launch year is recorded.
The refit year is unresolved. The operator describes a two-year restoration carried out by fifty craftsmen under an Egyptian naval architect, with an Art Deco mural preserved and Carrara marble bathrooms installed, but gives no year for either the start or the completion. The Scene Traveller piece of 23 October 2024 already describes the restoration as finished, so completion was likely 2024 or earlier. No year is recorded.
The guest capacity is the main contradiction across sources. The operator states up to 8 guests. Al Moudira, Corinthian Travel and Scene Traveller all state five cabins sleeping 8 to 10. If the restoration reduced the guest count, the cabin figure of 5 may also be out of date.
The vessel length is contradicted. The owner-side material gives 37 metres. Corinthian Travel gives 32 metres.
Bookings are handled by the Al Moudira hotel reservations desk, on a UAE phone number, rather than through a cruise company. The boat is moored beside that hotel. No source we read indicates the boat has changed hands.
No source we read gives the flag and registration, crew count, departure days, operating season, or minimum age policy. No source we read mentions wi-fi, a pool or plunge pool, step-free access, or exclusions. Absence of a mention is not treated as evidence of absence, so these are not recorded as none or false.
No rate is published on any source we read. The Accor page routes to the Accor booking engine with no tariff, and the factsheet and itinerary PDFs carry no prices, so the starting rate is empty. Two figures exist but neither fits a published lowest rate. ETL Travel quotes an average nightly rate of 750 USD per person, which is an agency average, not a published lowest rate. Noble Caledonia publishes 7,895 to 10,995 GBP per person for its 14-night charter, but that total includes economy scheduled flights, a tour manager, a guest speaker, gratuities, transfers and airport taxes, so it cannot be reduced to a per-person per-night cruise rate.
Inclusions and exclusions are empty because the two sources conflict. ETL Travel says prices are full board and include sightseeing with a private guide, transfers by private coach and entrance fees. The Accor page instead offers panorama suite guests complimentary airport transfers and 10 per cent savings on sightseeing excursions, which implies excursions are charged separately on direct bookings.
Accessibility is empty. Neither Mövenpick, Noble Caledonia nor Steppes states anything about steps, lifts, cabin door widths or wheelchairs.
The charter rate and charter minimum are empty. Noble Caledonia runs full-ship 14-night programmes, which appears to be whole-boat charter, but no source states charter terms, a minimum cabin count or a charter rate.
The CruiseMapper page cited in the operator record, cruisemapper.com/ships/Movenpick-SS-Misr-1482, now serves a different vessel, the Emerald Lumi. The Traveline ownership claim could not be rechecked.
Mövenpick and Accor brand the ship as Mövenpick SS Misr. The Cairo sales office is Mövenpick Nile Cruises Management, 74 Beirut Street, Heliopolis.
The deck count, crew count and guest capacity all rest on single third-party sources that disagree with each other.
The only bookable date we found comes from no live availability calendar. No source we read publishes one for this vessel. Booking runs through Original Travel and Voyageurs du Monde as a tailor-made package, so the only public numbers are package totals that include flights and hotels. The starting rate is derived from a third-party agent's approximate five-night package price, not from anything the operator published.
The cabin count has a clean explanation but a messy public record. The operator says 18 cabins and 6 suites, which is 24. Wikipedia, Vita Brevis and the Voyageurs du Monde French copy still say 23 including 5 suites, which was the count before the Odilo Suite was added in January 2022.
Five different years are in circulation for the restoration: 2000, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2022. No operator page states one.
Every source describes working steam machinery and one reports a visitable engine room, but no source we read says whether a modern engine now does the work or assists.
We did not find the flag or registration, an overall length as a single agreed figure, whether there is a pool, whether there is a lift or any step-free cabin, a fixed weekly departure pattern, a charter minimum, or a published operating season.
The operating season is actively contradictory. The operator says only that low water stops the Luxor to Qena leg from late November to mid-February. Comptoir des Voyages calls November to April the best season. Authentic Hotels lists closures of 1 to 15 December and the whole of June. Those cannot all be current, so we have left the operating season blank.
Wikipedia lists LTI Hotels as the current operator, which contradicts the ship's own site. That appears stale but we have not been able to confirm it.
On the Agatha Christie claim, the operator's own homepage title calls the vessel Agatha Christie's Steamer while the page body makes no historical claim at all. The two dates given in third-party sources, 1931 and 1933, do not agree.
No rate is published on any page we could reach. Oberoi shows rates only inside its booking engine; the offers, policies and vessel pages carry no figure. The only published number we found was Adventure Life's "12 days from $13,746 per person" for a land and cruise package. That is not a vessel rate, so the starting rate is left empty.
Guest capacity is contested. Lindblad's ship page says 44, Lindblad's own PDF fact sheet says 42, and Oberoi states no total.
Two trade partners give 2015 as the refit year. A June 2026 guest review describes a renovation that removed cabin verandahs, which may be later work that Oberoi has not dated publicly.
No source we read gives the flag or registration.
No source states the propulsion type, though a 72-metre, five-deck river ship is plainly engine-driven.
Charter availability, the charter rate, and any charter exclusions are not published.
Cabin counts per category are not published by Oberoi. The split of 18 cabins and 4 suites comes from Scott Dunn and matches the Lindblad deck plan.
Tripadvisor carries three separate listings for this cruise with contradictory ratings. One of those listings reviews the selling agency rather than the vessel.
Cabin count is unresolved. Oberoi's accommodation page says 28 cabins and suites across three categories. Third parties including Travel + Leisure say 27, usually broken out as 25 Luxury Cabins plus 2 Luxury Suites. The gap is probably accounted for by the Luxury Suite with Two Bedrooms, but no source says so. The suite count was left empty for the same reason. Oberoi names two suite categories and publishes no count for either.
No length is recorded. Tauck, CruiseMapper, Global Journeys and RiverCruise.com all publish 236 m or 774 ft. That figure is implausible for a 27-cabin Nile vessel with a 14 m beam and appears to be a shared upstream error. No credible length was found.
No refit year was found anywhere. Oberoi publishes no refit statement on the vessel, highlights, policies or awards pages. The only dry dock references we found were a 2018 reviewer noting the vessel was heading to dry dock that June, with no outcome recorded, and a search snippet claiming a scheduled dry dock from 1 June to 5 July 2027. That second claim was not confirmed on a retrieved page and is not recorded. It would explain the June gap in the published sailing calendar, but the same June gap exists in 2026 as well, so one dry dock does not account for it.
No rate is published by the operator anywhere on the site. Everything sits inside the booking engine, which has no plain URL. The rate we have recorded comes from one third-party seller and is a packaged per-person trip total including excursions and transfers, divided out to a nightly figure. It should not be treated as an Oberoi fare.
The guest capacity is contested at 50 versus 54 and neither figure comes from Oberoi.
No charter availability, charter minimum or charter rate was found. Tauck sells chartered departures on the vessel, which implies whole-boat charter happens, but no charter terms or rate are published.
Oberoi's own pages disagree with each other on cruise length. The booking form sells 2 and 3-night trips while the calendar and itineraries pages sell 3, 4 and 7-night trips. A reader comparing the vessel page with the sailing dates page will find two different products described.
No starting rate, top rate, or charter rate is recorded. Uniworld publishes only package totals for this programme. The lowest 2026 figure is 6,999 US dollars per person on double occupancy for a Grand Suite on the 12 December 2026 River Tosca departure, and the highest is 12,349 per person for a Royal Suite on the same date. Those totals cover 11 nights, of which 4 are Cairo hotel nights, plus Cairo to Luxor flights and all excursions. The cruise night count inside the total is unambiguous at 7, but the total is not a cruise-only figure, so dividing it would produce a false per-night rate. None of a per-person-per-night, per-cabin or whole-boat rate describes it. These fields are left empty deliberately.
The departure days field is empty. Every published River Tosca date in 2026 and 2027 falls on a Saturday, and Uniworld tags each one Sat. Uniworld never states a weekly pattern in words, so this remains a dated calendar rather than a published pattern.
The refit year is empty. Uniworld's Quick Facts carry a field labelled Remodeled with the value 0001, which is a null placeholder rather than a year. CruiseMapper lists no refurbishment. The hull dates from 2009, so a refit may well have happened, but no year is published anywhere we checked.
The flag and registration are empty. No source we checked states a flag. CruiseMapper gives the builder as Maasara Shipyard in Cairo, the homeport as Cairo and the operator as Uniworld River Cruises Egypt, which points to Egyptian registration but does not establish it.
Uniworld prints a caveat on the River Tosca ship page: while the River Tosca is a beautiful and luxurious ship, its amenities may differ from those of a Uniworld company owned ship. The same caveat did not appear on the S.S. Sphinx pages a sister researcher checked. Every onboard amenity field for this vessel should be read with that caveat in mind.
On the operator. The River Tosca ship page footer reads copyright 2026 Uniworld Boutique River Cruises, the same entity the Sphinx sits under in our operators list. CruiseMapper gives the owner as The Travel Corporation and the operator as Uniworld River Cruises Egypt for River Tosca. Both ships are sold on the same itinerary page, share one day-by-day schedule and one inclusions list. They are the same company. The operator recorded here was not changed.
River Tosca is the cheaper of the two Uniworld Nile ships on most matched dates, but not consistently. On 12 December 2026 the entry Grand Suite is 6,999 against 7,199 for the Sphinx entry category. On 7 November 2026 River Tosca opens at 10,899 against 7,999 for the Sphinx. Pricing between the two ships is not consistently ordered.
No flag or registration is published for this vessel by Uniworld, CruiseMapper, Global Journeys or Fodor's, so the flag and registration remain unrecorded.
No refit year has been found. Uniworld's Quick Facts panel prints "Remodeled 0001", which is a null placeholder rather than a year. No source gives a refurbishment date for a ship that entered service in 2021, so the refit year remains unrecorded.
No award has been found for the S.S. Sphinx itself. Every entry on Uniworld's awards page is a line-level award for Uniworld Boutique River Cruises, so the awards field is left empty rather than filled with company awards.
The starting and top rates published on this record are per person, double occupancy totals for a 12-day programme that bundles 7 cruise nights, 4 Cairo hotel nights and two domestic flights. They are recorded under the per-cabin rate only because the rate vocabulary has no per-person package option. Readers should note that these figures do not represent a cabin price or a cruise-only price.
Cabin count has three published answers: 42 from Uniworld and from CruiseMapper's ship record, 44 from CruiseMapper's own cabins page, and 37 from Tripadvisor. This record uses 42 because the operator's four category counts sum to that figure and it matches 84 guests at double occupancy.
Cruise Critic and Fodor's both block automated retrieval. The accessibility sentence and the June-to-August season gap were read from search engine extracts of those pages rather than from the pages themselves, and both details should be confirmed by loading the pages directly in a browser.
Uniworld's own ship page carries the line "While the S.S. Sphinx is a beautiful and luxurious ship, its amenities may differ from those of a Uniworld-company-owned ship." This is an unusual statement for an operator to publish about a vessel it markets as a Super Ship.
The starting rate is not recorded. Uniworld publishes USD 6,349 per person on double occupancy for the full 12-day programme, which bundles Cairo hotel nights with cruise nights. It is not a per-cabin price, and the cruise-only night count is not stated, so the figure cannot be converted to one. Source: https://www.uniworld.com/us/river-cruise/egypt/nile/splendors-of-egypt-and-the-nile/2027-cairo-to-cairo/dates-and-prices. The River Tosca record was left empty for the same reason.
This record covers a class, not a single hull. The hulls identified as identical sister ships are the Viking Osiris (2022), Viking Aton (2023), Viking Hathor (2024), Viking Sobek (2024 or 2025), Viking Amun (2025), Viking Thoth (2025), Viking Sekhmet (2026) and Viking Ptah (2026). Every class specification in this record applies to all hulls and is stated as such in each note. Two further names, Viking Geb and Viking Anubis, appear on Viking's Egypt fleet page and in CruiseMapper's sister ship list but in no Viking press release we read, so their delivery status is unknown and they are not counted here. The Viking Ra (2018) and the chartered MS Antares also sail for Viking on the Nile and are not part of this class. They require their own records or an explicit exclusion.
Sobek's delivery year is contradictory. Viking's press release of 22 August 2022 states she was due in 2025. The naming release of 5 November 2024 treats her as a 2024 delivery. CruiseMapper records her as built 2025. The class launch year of 2022 is unaffected, as it reflects the lead ship.
The starting rate and top rate are not recorded here. The only published figures are 6,999 US dollars and 10,999 US dollars per person, for the Pharaohs and Pyramids and Total Eclipse on the Nile programmes respectively. Both are 12-day packages that bundle four hotel nights in Cairo, seven ship nights and flights between Cairo and Luxor. Dividing either figure by seven ship nights would load hotel and air costs onto the ship rate. Recording a per-person package price as a per-cabin rate would misstate it. No money value is therefore recorded. The most accurate way to cite a price is 6,999 US dollars per person for the full programme, described in those terms.
Departure days are not recorded. The hulls do not share a single weekly pattern. CruiseMapper shows the Viking Sobek departing Cairo on Tuesdays, including 1 and 8 September 2026 and 30 March 2027, and the Viking Osiris departing on Wednesday 2 September 2026. Viking's own departure tables are published in a script that does not render, so no pattern could be confirmed from the operator directly.
The operating season is not recorded for the same reason. CruiseMapper's schedule for the Viking Sobek runs monthly from September 2026 to June 2027 and resumes in August 2027, suggesting a July gap, but a single aggregator schedule is not sufficient to state a season with certainty.
The flag and registration are not recorded. Neither Viking nor CruiseMapper publishes a flag or registry for any hull. All hulls were built at the Massara yard in Cairo and are operated by Viking River Cruises Egypt.
The refit year is not recorded. The oldest hull is four years old and no source we read mentions a refit.
The charter rate and charter minimum are not recorded. Viking publishes no charter offer for its Nile ships. Its FAQ portal did not render, so we could not check there either.
Awards are not recorded. Search results credit the Viking Osiris with a place in Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List 2023 and Forbes' Best Luxury River Cruise 2023, and the Viking Aton with the Hot List 2024, but neither Viking press release we retrieved carries those lines and no source URL supports them. The awards Viking does print in its releases are company-level, such as the number one ranking for Rivers in the Condé Nast Traveler 2024 Readers' Choice Awards. Those are not ship awards.
Viking's 2026 and 2027 Nile pricing pages are heavily marked as sold out, with a prompt to call for availability.
This is one ship, not a programme and not a pair. Hilton and Middle East Nile Cruisers announced a single newbuild with 29 suites on five decks. No sister vessel is announced and no second hull appears in any source. We checked specifically whether an existing hull is being rebranded, as happened with MS Terramar. Nothing suggests that here. Every source calls it a newbuild, the coverage carries renderings rather than photographs, and no prior name is attached to it anywhere. No hull name has ever been published. The brand name is the only name in use.
No rate has been published in any currency. Nothing is bookable, so the starting rate, the top rate and the charter rate are all empty rather than estimated.
One search result summary referred to a December 2026 inaugural sailing reported by CruiseMapper. We did not retrieve that page and could not attribute the claim, so it is not in the record.
We saw an unattributed claim of up to 58 guests in 29 suites in a search summary. We could not trace it to a page, so the guest capacity is empty. If 58 is confirmed, the berth count is 58.
NileShips carries a listing for this ship with a sun deck pool, cabin air conditioning, four meals a day, belly dancing and a language list. That page reads as boilerplate applied to a ship that does not yet exist. Hilton's own release names only a spa, a fitness centre, Peacock Alley, a brasserie and a rooftop deck, with no pool. The pool, air conditioning, wi-fi, charter availability and booking channels are left empty rather than drawn from that listing.
No specification sheet exists. The flag and registration, vessel length, crew count, operating season, departure days, minimum age and accessibility are all unpublished. Accessibility in particular has never been mentioned by Hilton or by any trade outlet.
TravelAge West, Robb Report and Karry On all blocked automated retrieval and may hold figures we could not reach.
No refit year is confirmed. A&K describes the vessel as freshly revamped and newly refreshed but gives no date on its website or in its riverboat guide. The only year found anywhere is 2025, given by Small Ship Travel, and nothing corroborates it.
No rate is published by the operator. A&K's rates panel for this vessel says "Please enquire for rates", unlike Sun Boat IV and Nile Seray, which carry full published tables. The only current figure we found is from Steppes Travel, which lists GBP 2,895 per person for a four-night charter based on 12 guests. That is the only source for the starting rate. A whole-boat figure of GBP 34,740 follows from that multiplication, but no source publishes that figure, so the charter rate is not listed here.
Propulsion is genuinely unclear. A&K presents the vessel as a sailing boat, and it is a two-masted dahabiya with no propulsion engine, but a journalist writing for Citizen Femme reports that it is pulled by a tugboat.
The deck count is uncertain. ETL Travel states two decks. A&K's own guide describes cabins on a lower deck, a lounge and dining room, and a teak sun deck above, which reads as three levels. A&K's deck plan is a flat image and the text within it cannot be read, so the count is not listed here.
No departure days are listed. Third-party sellers claim fixed weekly patterns that contradict each other. ETL Travel states three nights ex Aswan every Wednesday and four, five, and seven nights ex Luxor every Saturday. Nile Cruise Booking states every Monday from Luxor and every Friday from Aswan. A&K's own dated departures for journey MID018 follow no weekly pattern. A&K states that itineraries are bespoke.
No award is documented. A&K repeatedly uses the phrases award-winning cuisine and award-winning onboard chef but names no award anywhere.
A&K's fleet page states that Zein Nile Chateau has six suites. The vessel page and the riverboat guide both state two signature suites and four deluxe cabins. Every third-party source agrees with the vessel page and the guide, making the fleet page the outlier.
This is the only dahabiya in the A&K fleet and the only vessel in that fleet for which A&K publishes no price. Everything else about it is documented in unusual detail in the riverboat guide fact tables.
No build or launch year is published anywhere for this hull. The operator says only that Zekrayaat follows the design of an original Dahabiya from the late 18th and early 19th century, and elsewhere calls it a Nile boat from the 19th century. Those are statements about design lineage, not a build date, so no launch year is recorded here. One third-party listing calls it a 1930s classical dahabiya with 6 cabins, but it carries no source and contradicts the operator on route and duration, so it was not used.
No refit year is published. No flag or registration detail is published.
Nothing is published about accessibility. Cabins and suites are below deck down a central corridor, the boat has two decks, and no lift, ramp or step count is mentioned. No accessibility information is recorded here rather than inferred from those details.
The charter minimum is recorded as a duration, not a cabin count. The operator states the charter minimum as three nights and gives no cabin figure, so no charter minimum cabin count is recorded. No whole-boat charter rate is published either, only per person per night rates and an invitation to contact the operator directly.
No minimum age is published. The operator says the boats and daily activities are suitable for children and publishes children's rates from age one, which suggests there is no minimum, but it does not state this.
The operator's own guestbook spells the name zakaryaat in the January 2026 entry. Third-party sellers use Zekrayat. The alternative spellings listed for this vessel may be incomplete without zakaryaat.
A note on third-party sources for this vessel. Several agency sites sell a Zekrayaat cruise as a 5 or 7 day Luxor to Aswan trip. That contradicts the operator's 3 and 4 night Esna to Aswan product. The operator states plainly that its journeys are available only through direct bookings and not through third-party agents. Every value published for this vessel comes from the operator's own site for that reason.