AmaNubia

AmaNubia is AmaWaterways’ third ship on the Nile, arriving in the autumn of 2026 behind AmaDahlia and AmaLilia, and she shares the second one’s hull almost exactly: 236 feet long, 43 feet across, five decks, and a crew of sixty-five. Where she differs is inside, and the difference is a deliberate one: thirty-eight staterooms instead of forty-one, and fifteen of the thirty-eight are suites.

She was built at the Maasara yard in Cairo and she flies the Egyptian flag. That is not a footnote. The Nile is a closed river with no navigable connection to anywhere else, so a ship that works it has to be built in Egypt and stays in Egypt. Nothing is repositioned in for a season. Every hull on the river was born there and will be scrapped there, which is why the Nile fleet is a separate world from the European one and why its economics look nothing alike.

Not yet sailing

At the time of writing there are no departures for AmaNubia in our database. That is not an oversight and it is not a gap in her program; she has only just entered service, and her schedule has not been loaded here yet. Anything written about where she goes at this point would be a guess, and the line’s own published plan is one product: Secrets of Egypt & the Nile, an eleven-night package combining Cairo hotel nights with the Luxor–Aswan stretch of the river, with the Cairo end run out of the Four Seasons at The First Residence and optional extensions to Abu Simbel, Alexandria, Jordan and Dubai.

That is what the line says. When departures appear in our data, this page will describe them instead. Until they do, treat the paragraph above as the brochure’s account rather than the site’s.

Fifteen suites in thirty-eight rooms

This is the number that separates her from her sisters. AmaLilia carries eighty-two guests in forty-one staterooms, thirteen of them suites. AmaNubia carries seventy-six in thirty-eight, fifteen of them suites. The company took three cabins out of an identical hull and turned two more of the survivors into suites, and the result is a ship where nearly four rooms in ten are a suite grade, the highest proportion anywhere in the fleet, river or otherwise.

The Owner’s Suite is 525 square feet. The Grand Suites are 430, with the sitting area separated from the bed. Below them the Atrium A rooms are 240 square feet and the Category CA and CB cabins are 215, all with French balconies. On a seventy-six-guest boat, the practical effect is that the gap between the cheapest room and the most expensive one is unusually wide, and the cheapest room is still larger than a standard cabin on most of the company’s European hulls.

Every stateroom faces the river, which on the Nile is the entire argument for the room. The bank is the destination: the sailing legs pass fields, feluccas, mudbrick villages and the occasional temple wall going by at walking pace, and a cabin facing inward would throw that away.

Aboard

Five decks (Sun, Jasmine, Lily, Lotus and Acacia) with cabins on three of them. Two dining rooms: Journeys Restaurant, which runs Western cooking alongside Egyptian and Middle Eastern dishes, and The Chef’s Table, a smaller room doing a multi-course tasting menu. There is a pool and a pair of whirlpools on the sun deck, a spa, a fitness room and a lounge.

The design brief was the color, texture and craft of ancient Egypt read through a contemporary interior rather than a themed one, and the structural decision that carries it is glass: floor-to-ceiling windows in every public room and most cabins. On a river where the scenery is continuous and the temperature makes standing outside a limited proposition for much of the day, that is the right thing to spend money on.

As on her sisters, an Egyptologist travels with the ship rather than being engaged at each stop, and the fares are close to all-inclusive; guided touring, transfers, meals, wine with lunch and dinner, and Wi-Fi are in the price.

Who she suits

Anyone for whom Egypt is the reason and the boat is the hotel. That framing matters, because a Nile week is dense and it starts early: the heat pushes the touring into the morning and a call can mean leaving the ship before six. A guest who wants to sleep in will miss the trip they paid for.

Within that, AmaNubia is specifically the ship to book if the room matters. The suite proportion is the whole point of her, and if you have looked at a Nile sailing and concluded that you would rather have the 430-square-foot version than the 215, she has fifteen of them where her sister has thirteen and the rest of the river has fewer.

She is a poor fit for a passenger who wants sea days, evening entertainment or anything resembling a resort. There is no theater, no casino, and the ship is tied up more often than she is moving; the pool deck and a good dinner is the whole of the onboard program. She is wrong for anyone uneasy with structure, since the itinerary is fixed, guided and shared. And she is the wrong ship, right now, for anyone who needs to see a schedule before they commit, because at this moment there is not one here to see.