Luxor Hot Air Balloon Review

It should be the cheapest hot air balloon experience in the world. We are almost RMB 280, and it is said that the cheap 200 is also OK. The scenery is not as good as Cappadocia, but the first experience is already very good.

The Luxor hot air balloon that must be visited is also compared with the prices of several companies. The price is reasonable. If you go to the local local travel agency, there will be a lower price. Pull the group to dock in advance, someone will come to the hotel to pick it up, but our hotel is opposite the pier, basically just boarded the boat when we left the hotel. The staff who came to pick us up took care of us. The whole trip of the hot air balloon was also very good, 4.35am came to pick it up, and returned to the hotel before 8 o'clock. It is recommended, Trip.com Directly worry-free.

This was by far the highlight of my trip to Egypt. Seeing the Sunrise and Temples from above are just amazing! If you are in Egypt this activity is definitely a must!

The most expensive self-funded project of the trip to Egypt, $140/person, but the price is very high compared to Masai Mara, Kenya. It is always very hard to take a hot air balloon. It is called early at 4:15 in the morning, and it departs at 4:45. The departure place is on a vacant lot next to the quarry. The sun had just risen, and the golden sun shone on the body, warm, and the slight coolness of the Egyptian morning. Colorful balloons scattered in the open space, some were full of hot air, and they were flying; some were just inflating, and they were still pulling their heads; Others lay weakly on the ground because the fuel bottles for heating the air had not arrived. Egypt's hot air balloon can hold up to 20 passengers, the basket is divided into five zones, the four corners of the area is the passenger zone, each area can stand five people, the middle area is the pilot's operating area. I was standing at the outermost point in the upper left corner. Although the view was very wide, it was a bit hot when the heating device was sprayed. After 10 minutes, I reached the predetermined height, 3,200 feet, almost 970 meters, more than 100 meters higher than the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. At a height of nearly 1 km from the ground, the small hanging basket swaying slightly, the vast world, this is a wonderful experience, like a dream! The morning mist has not yet dissipated, and the distance above the Nile is like a white ribbon around the Nile River. Slowly moving at foot is the majestic temple built by the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut on the mountain, overlooking her quaint vicissitudes, her broken walls and ruins all at a glance. Our balloons slowly floated over the Valley of the Kings, past the statue of the Sagrada Familia, and the world was so quiet, there was no noise from tourists. The balloon landed safely in the desert in front of the Imperial Valley. Because of the wind direction, each balloon landed in a different place, some even had to be several kilometers apart. Before landing, we saw the car that picked us up chasing us in the desert below. The landing was very smooth, we didn't even do the pre-take-off study, after landing, the organizer sent each person a certificate souvenir.

Here I reflect on the encounter of Trip.com group tour. On July 22, we set off for a group tour. On the way, we contacted the hot air balloon company Magic Horizon to sign up for a flight. We contacted by several emails. We determined that the flight time was on August 5, and the hot air balloon company would pick up and drop off at 4 am. After staying at the hotel the night before the flight, we immediately informed the hot air balloon company of our room number, and then we received the flight confirmation letter transmitted by the hot air balloon company through the hotel front desk but without a letter, and the pick-up time was changed from 4 to 3 and a half. When we received the confirmation, the tour guide called the room several times and asked if we had signed up for a hot air balloon tomorrow morning, and said the Chinese consulate called and asked us to meet him in the lobby to talk. After several calls, we called the leader and clearly pointed out that the tour guide directly contacted the team members to discuss matters that were not related to the itinerary, which had exceeded his duties. Please let her know the reason for it immediately. At 3:30 the next morning, the hot air balloon company staff did not show up, we dialed the confirmation letter on the other party contact Mohammed's phone, he confirmed our room number and replied that let us wait a few minutes, they arrived in a few minutes. We kept calling again a few minutes later, and the other party didn't answer. During the call, the tour guide was lobbying nearby: I told you last night. Trust me, they won't come and won't listen to you again, if you're going to fly, I can help. I asked him: What's going on, how did you know in advance last night that we were going to fly? The tour guide replied that he knew everything. I made it clear that it was a serious violation of the hotel to look over and disclose the information of the guests privately, and I will contact the Chinese consulate to let the government guarantee my safety. I also told him that I had promised the other party that I would keep the contract, and if they did not come, it was their business to lose the contract, and I would make a separate decision. By 4:30, after judging that the hot air balloon company was under pressure and no longer appeared, I said to the tour guide: If you can still guarantee to take off before sunrise, I accept your advice. The tour guide said: No problem, definitely catch up. So we paid for the ride to the departure point in the car they contacted. We were on the box for more than 20 minutes, and the hot air balloon had not yet taken off. The sun came out! Increasingly, the pilot kept calling the company to explain that the wind could not take off at the scene, but the company said that it should not take off (the pilot's explanation after the incident, has been recorded). Finally took off, but soon landed on a sugarcane field, hot air balloon company personnel rushed up to hand in the submission, I only filled in: not completed flight. When I returned, I asked the tour guide for a refund, and was immediately rejected. To ensure my personal safety, I immediately called the Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Call Center of the Chinese Foreign Ministry (86-10-59913991), and then called Trip.com , which reflected the whole thing. The consulate hopes to keep in touch every day and send the hotel that I stay at every night to the Consulate through the WeChat public account. Trip.com Let me travel with peace of mind and help me deal with it when I return home.