EGYPT – Nile Cruise, Day 7

Our last day and we’d seen so many fantastic sights that we were already regretting that we’d booked for just one week.



We’d had consistently good weather throughout the week with temperatures up in the late 20’s and 30’s and sunshine every day. Today was no exception, so after a quick visit to the tiny onboard ‘shop’ for last minute souvenirs, we settled ourselves on the sundeck for a few hours of R&R.



The transfer to the airport takes only 25-30 minutes but that was plenty long enough for me to snoop through the window of the coach and catch another glimpse into the local way of life. No wonder everything costs 10 Egyptian pounds – these people have literally nothing.







Check-in at Luxor was relatively painless, which is more than can be said for the Monarch charter flight which was full, and incredibly cramped and uncomfortable. However, it was when we got to Gatwick that the fun and games really started.

There was a lot of snow on the runway as we landed and the ground staff were quick to blame the bad weather when our cases took 5+ hours to make it to the baggage carousel. In fact, Swissport (the handling agent for Monarch) had sacked 50 staff the week before so the rest were working to rule and went home at midnight leaving 6 managed to load and unload all the flights into both terminals. Talk about useless – this lot had the organisational skills of a bunch of rotten tomatoes which is a shame as it really put a dampner on the end of the holiday. Humpf.