The usual cruise is aboard a Nile cruiser,
often referred to as a
floating hotel.
Indeed, the better boats have most of the accommodations
of a land based hotel, including small swimming pools, hot tubs,
exercise rooms, nightclubs,
good restaurants, stores and even small
libraries. Many of the boats have dance areas with disco or even live
entertainment,
and most offer a variety of nightly shows. These might
include cocktail parties, Nubian shows, belly dancers and whirling
dervish, plays and even dress up parties where guests don traditional
apparel.
A much more adventurous style of Nile cruise, very different from the floating hotels can be arranged aboard feluccas,
Egypt's traditional Nile sailboat. Most felucca trips are short trips
of several hours, but multi-day felucca cruises can be arranged aboard
larger vessels traveling between Aswan and Luxor. The accommodations on a
felucca are primitive. Tourist sleep in the open on deck and the
sailors double as cooks.
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