The price and booking systems are a little strange. In the way Cairo-Aswan, I booked a second class ticket (\u00a358) online (enr.gov.eg), paid by Visa through an Australian website! But I had to book 3 times: the first one, the Egyptian website crashed after the Visa confirmation; the second time, I got a time out (\u201creservation expired\u201d); and the third time, the reservation went through and could print the resulting Pdf file in a shop in Cairo. I was charged 3 times, but get my money back for the second booking, so that I paid twice. My reserved seat (#1) was close to the door. People always going through prevented me to sleep well. In Luxor station, I simply walked to the first class and the last 3 hours were more comfortable.<\/p>\n
My second ticket was from Aswan to Edfu, but bought the ticket in the train because the queue was too long in the ticket office in Aswan. So I had to pay my ticket in the train (\u00a324).<\/p>\n
The third ticket, Edfu-Luxor, was also paid in the train (\u00a333). I can understand that I have to pay extra while in the train, but it is somehow surprising to pay almost the same for Aswan-Edfu-Luxor (3h trip in total) as Cairo-Aswan (13 hours).<\/p>\n
Finally, to come back from Luxor to Cairo, I bought a ticket a few hours before in first class (\u00a390). The particularity was how I got it: the ticket office told me no place was available for the whole day; but in front of it, some people were trying to sell their tickets. So with Hamdy in the midday, I took one like that, after asking the employee. The ticket was perfectly valid; I had no problem when checked in the train. The train however came 15 min late in Luxor and stayed 45 min more, waiting that the train Cairo-Luxor leave the track! Consequently, I arrived one hour late in Cairo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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