Nile Cruise Price Index 2026: What 99 Ships Actually Cost

We looked at every ship, dahabiya and dinner cruise listed on Egypt Nile Cruise Hub — 99 vessels in total — and pulled together what we actually know about pricing across the market, broken down by class. This is published data from our own listings, not a survey or a marketing estimate, and we say plainly below where the data is thin.

Average price by class

Across the 32 ships with published per-person pricing, the gap between Standard and Luxury tiers is real but not enormous — the bigger jump is from Luxury into Ultra Luxury, though we only have confirmed pricing for one Ultra Luxury vessel today, so treat that figure as a single data point rather than a category average.

Route and cabin patterns

94 of the 99 vessels we track run the classic Luxor / Aswan corridor, 3 sail Aswan-based itineraries and 2 are Cairo-based dinner cruises. On length, 89 ships offer a 7-night itinerary — the most common length by far — followed by 3-night (47 ships) and 4-night (45 ships) options. Most ships that offer the 7-night sailing also offer a shorter 3- or 4-night version of the same route, so itinerary length is rarely a reason on its own to rule a ship out.

6 ships in our catalog are fully all-suite — MS Le Fayan I Nile Cruise, Salacia Nile Cruise, MS Le Fayan Suites Nile Cruise, MS Tosca Nile Cruise, Sonesta Star Goddess Nile Cruise and Sonesta Sun Goddess Nile Cruise. Another 22 ships offer suite cabins as an upgrade alongside standard cabins. That is 28 ships worth a closer look if cabin size and privacy matter more to you than the price tag on its own.

Explore the full data

Every ship behind these numbers is browsable individually — filter by class, route and nights in our comparison tool, or answer four quick questions and we'll match you to the right ship directly.