Abydos
Dahabiya. Operated by sold via CroisiEurope.
Sailing, one source checked 12 Sep 2026
One source says this vessel is sailing and we have not found a second. We never infer that a boat is in service from the absence of news about it.
Unverified entry This vessel is in our record because AI assistants recommend it, not because we found it ourselves. We have not yet confirmed it matches its description.
Our view
A 2022 hull with a reasonable specification that you cannot buy as a cruise, only as a ten day package with flights and hotels. That is the seller's model rather than a fault in the boat, but it makes any comparison with the per night prices elsewhere in this collection meaningless. Ask how many nights are actually on board before you compare it with anything.
Who it suits
- French speaking travellers, the seller is a French line and the boat sits in its fleet
- Anyone who wants the Winter Palace and the Old Cataract built into the trip
- Travellers who prefer one operator to handle flights, hotels and the boat
Who it does not suit
- Anyone who wants to book the boat on its own, the only product is a ten day package and the seller publishes no cruise only option
- Travellers who need to know how many nights are actually on board, the itinerary bundles hotel nights and the split is not published
- Anyone who wants a price, the vessel page carries none and the French page shows a promotion tag with no figure behind it
- Guests wanting a wide choice of dates, two departures are published for October 2026
- Service style
- 2022 sailing boat for eighteen guests carried inside a French line's own fleet and sold only as a bundled ten day programme with hotel nights.
- The cabin we would book
- One of the two suites. The seller publishes nothing that separates the nine cabins from each other, so the suites are the only documented choice.
- Nearest alternative: Queen Isis
- Two dahabiyas that reach the market only through a single French tour operator, neither with a rate of its own. Abydos is sailing with published October 2026 dates. Queen Isis has a seller currently publishing no Egypt departures at all. See its record →
Identity · 3 of 4 on file
The vessel · 10 of 13 on file
How it operates · 3 of 9 on file
Price · 0 of 5 on file
Reputation · 0 of 3 on file
What we could not establish
Every empty cell above has a reason. These are the reasons for this vessel, written down at the time the record was made, including the places where published sources contradict each other.
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.
Recorded 12 September 2026. If you can settle any of these, tell us and we will correct the record in public.
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