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for the same price. In either case the passenger goes by
rail from Port Said to Cairo and Luxor and by Nile Express
steamer from Luxor to Assuan.
By either route the passenger gets six days' hotel accommodation
at Cairo at the Bristol, the new Khedivial, Eden
Palace, or some similar hotel, three days' hotel accommodation
at Assuan, at the Grand Hotel, and four days' at Luxor at the
Hotel Luxor; also transfer' with baggage between the hotel
and the station, and the hotel and the steamer pier at Cairo.
The railway tickets and the steamer tickets on the
Mediterranean and Nile steamers are included. Passengers
are strongly recommended to pay an extra two guineas and
go first class by rail in Egypt, where the natives overcrowd
the second class. For an extra five shillings a day you
can have superior accommodation in Cairo at the National
Hotel, but the two first-named have a far more interesting
position. If the passenger wishes to travel first class instead
of second, including the superior hotel accommodation
in Cairo, he has to pay £6i 14s. for the all-sea route and
;^6o 6s. for the Marseilles route.
A good many people who go to Cairo intending to spend a
whole winter there, when they meet friends who have been
up the Nile on one of Cook's Nile trips feel that it is absurd
to leave Egypt without going to see the magnificent monuments
of the Pharoahs. Cook's Nile steamer season lasts,
roughly, from the beginning of November to the end of
March, and there are four different services comprised in
it, which enable visitors to see all the most famous monuments
of the Pharaohs, many of which are in situations which
have no town, in which a foreigner could stay, anywhere near
them.
The great service is the three-weeks voyage on the Nile
in the three largest steamers, the Egypt, the Rameses the
Great, and the Rajiicses, which go the whole way from Cairo
to Assuan by the Nile and give you three days and a half at
Luxor and two days and a half at Assuan, besides giving the
passengers visits to all the great monuments of ancient
Egypt between Cairo and Assuan. That starts every Tues-
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