EGYPT Group Travel Pyramids Nile Cruise

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  Vlad

  April 10th, 2023
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  After this tour I feel like I was robbed. Here is why. Please note - my review here is review to Bucket List, not...
  After this tour I feel like I was robbed. Here is why. Please note - my review here is review to Bucket List, not Timeless Travel who were hosting that tour. This tour was the most attractive to me because it allowed the most side seeing thru the Egypt and since it was ending in Hurghada, me and my fiancee could have stayed at resort near Red Sea for extra time. US has capitalism economy, and companies like Bucket list exist on Amazon too - like you are sold same item from Target for double the value. I always hate when someone resells something and adds almost NO value to the product and make profit from it - even so it is legal, it is also legal for me to leave poor review for such companies that (in cases when I cannot return and by cheaper). Once we arrived to Cairo, we understood that I & my fiancee were only 2 people in our group who booked the tour via Bucket List. Apparently, we were merged in a group hosted by Timeless Travel. The part that was not OK is that when I paid 2.5k$ per person (5k+ total), I was assuming that we will be a part of small group size up to 12 people max. We had 18 people in our group, and we were lucky. If we were to buy 'Best Of Egypt – 5* Cruise' tour from Timless Travel directly, it would have cost 1138EUR (1235$) and I'm ignoring the fact that sometimes they have 48% off their prices which would make it to 600$ per person. Only nuance is that we were upgraded to flight ticket from Cairo to Aswan which is extra.. but with hotel + flight ticket I would imagine that would be 200-300$ extra per person. Which makes me believe that I was overcharged 2k$ and even more for this trip. Timeless website states that their group size could be as large as 34 people - which explains that 18 people we had was expected. But it was more than promised by Bucket List. Another screwed up by Bucket List team was that I was asking them 3 times which resort we would be staying at Hurgada.. And I was told that we were to stay at Protels Grand Seas (which now rebrands by SunRise chain of restors). And I did book it on my own. And when I talked to our group guide, I learned that we were staying at Gravity resort. For 2k$ overcharge you would expect someone to be cristally clear about those details and don't screw up. But Bucket List did a very poor job. Another nuance is that there was misunderstanding with Timeless team - I had to talk to the guide couple times because part of their tour includes return back to Cairo for the last day of the program. And we were suppose to stay in Hurghada by our plan. They had to extend our stay in Hurghada because they allready assume that we will be staying last night in Cairo. Which makes me believe that you can book with Timeless and just talk to them and break out from the group and stay at Hurghada just fine. Having middle man like Bucket List does not good and creates break down in communication. On another hand, I guess this is just a part of experience - everyone at Egypt is trying to trick you into paying more, so Bucket List is just beginning of "experiencing Egypt". Probably only country in the world where prices are in EUR and USD are the same. Even so you cannot exchange USD to EUR as 1 to 1. But if someone would plan to travel there - bring USD, not EUR - you will get more value for your money. And recalculate final price you are given at duty free at the airport - people there cannot count correctly even with calculator. They will try to charge you more in some cases. And for them 2 + 2 = 5, and not 4.Show more
  Traveled in March 2023
  

  Reply from: Bucket List Group Travel LLC

  Hello Vlad, thanks for sharing your feedback. A bucket list is a travel agency and we have provided all the information you needed via WhatsApp chat, we have also shared the hotel information before the tour. Hope to see you on the next adventure with Bucket List

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