Blue Star Royal Regency, Kuoni

We were on board this ship from 29Dec 08-1 Jan 09. This ship was pushed on to us as an ugrade at the last minute. It was a 3 nites cruise sailing from Aswan to Luxor. We were on board the ship for a day and half at the wharf at Aswan, who wants to spend a nite on a anchored ship !!!

The moment you enter the vessel you are hit by diesel fumes, the Manager said that once the vessel moved it would go away but it never did.

The rooms are large and the bathrooms too are large, with a tub, most other ships we saw had just a small shower cubicle. But the rooms are old and run down.

The food is bad - tasteless, neither is it local cuisine nor Continental. Two from our party of 5 fell sick due to food poisoning. Some of the staff and especially the Manager was very rude.The staff could be excused due to lack of knowledge of spoken English but the Manager no way!

Yasser a housekeeping staff was absolutely fabulous, everything else was a disaster, don't ever take a trip on this so called 5* cruise!!!!