Uniworld River Tosca
Small river ship. Operated by Uniworld (operated by Egypt-based partner).
Sailing, two sources checked 12 Sep 2026
Our view
River Tosca sells exactly the same trip as the Sphinx on a hull twelve years older with no refit year published anywhere. The inclusions are the most complete of any river ship here, gratuities and internal flights included, and the programme is genuinely demanding rather than restful. Compare the two ships on your specific dates rather than assuming the older boat is the cheaper one, because the published prices do not run in that order.
Who it suits
- First visit to Egypt
- Travellers who want gratuities and internal flights inside one price
- Families with children from five upwards
- Anyone who wants every cabin to be a suite
Who it does not suit
- Anyone with limited mobility, Uniworld publishes no step free, lift or wheelchair information for this ship and supplies the deck plan only as an image
- Travellers who dislike early starts, Uniworld calls the programme active and warns of wake up calls at 5am or earlier
- Anyone who wants a cruise only price, the published figure is a per person total covering seven ship nights and four Cairo hotel nights
- Guests who assume the older hull is the cheaper one, on some dates River Tosca opens well above the Sphinx
- Anyone who took the Uniworld name at face value, Uniworld prints a caveat on this ship's page that its amenities may differ from a company owned ship
- Service style
- Hotel service model inside a twelve day package, with eight days of Egyptologist guiding, Cairo hotel nights, internal flights and all gratuities included.
- The cabin we would book
- Any suite above the entry Grand Suite, chosen by date rather than by category. Every room here is a suite and the price gap between categories moves more between departures than between cabins.
- Nearest alternative: Uniworld S.S. Sphinx
- The same programme and the same inclusions sold on two hulls. River Tosca dates from 2009 with no published refit. Sphinx is the 2021 newbuild. Which is cheaper changes from date to date. See its record →
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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.
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.
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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