Tour Arabia and the Near East

A 14-day Adventure of the Middle East and Arabia.
Touring Palestine, Israel, Egypt and Dubai

Indiana Jones himself couldn’t squeeze more adventure into this journey. Cairo and the Pyramids, a cruise on the Nile, the fabled temples and tombs of Luxor and Thebes, Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel, the Holyland. And Dubai — a true modern rendition of the 1001 Arabian Nights. Tour this Emirate on the Arabian Gulf. A taste of Arabia with a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In Dubai you’ll find year round sunshine and un-crowded, clean sandy beaches.

Tour

DAY 1 – HELLO ARABIA: Friday, Weekly Year Round (B)
DUBAI: We will land in this charming Emirate on the Arabian Gulf. A taste of Arabia with a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In Dubai you’ll find year round sunshine and un-crowded, clean sandy beaches.

In this Emirate you will find a very warm & welcoming team & society awaits you in Dubai. While shopping may not be high on your list, you wil find Dubai’s tax free markets means bargains galore. Attractive traditional Middle Eastern gifts – coffee pots, rugs, silverware, jewelry, brass, and one of the world’s greatest gold trading centers offering unbeatable value. Hong Kong is no longer able to compete with Dubai with the wide selection of low – priced international brand name products – audio equipment, VCRs, cameras, watches, fashions, perfumes and more. And do not forget about the award-winning Dubai Duty Free at the airport. Upon arrival, our local rep will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The Jumeirah Beach Hotel, The Ritz Carlton Hotel or similar.

Arriving at Dubai Inetranational Airort you’ll be delighted to discover Travel in Style’s VIP Red Carpet welcome procedures: you are met by our English-speaking representative who escorts you from your plane to a comfortable air-conditioned lounge where you can freshen up and recover from your flight. While you relax, our representative completes your Immigration procedures, collects your luggage, clears it through Customs, and transfers it to your private, air-conditioned vehicle. Escorted from the lounge to your vehicle, your private chauffeur transfers you to your hotel, assisting with your luggage when you arrive. Red Carpet Treatment: that’s the Travel in Style difference.

DAY 2 – DUBAI: Saturday (BLD)
Private Half Day Dubai City Tour:
Sample the historic sites and vibrant cosmopolitan life of Dubai on this comprehensive tour. The Tour begins in Jumeira, the picturesque palace and residential area of Dubai, also home to the famous Jumeira Mosque. The next stop is Sheikh Saeed House (former residence of ruling family). The Tour then continues to Al Bastakiya, the old part of Dubai, to reach the museum located in Al Fahidi Fort. All guests board the Abra (water taxi) to cross the Creek to the spice souk. Before savoring the sights and sounds of the fish, fruit and vegetable market, there is time to shop in the most famous landmark of Dubai – the Gold souk. Lunch is included at a charming local restaurant. We will have a brief stop at Ski Dubai (guest who wish to ski will purchase tickets on own locally).

Evening Dhow Cruise Dinner:
For a fabulous relaxing evening join our fully fitted Arabian dhow for an evening’s cruise on the Creek. Enjoy a sumptuous feast of Arabic and Western cuisine while gently gliding past illuminated souks, banks and palaces.

DAY 3 – Desert Safari with dinner in the Arabian Desert – DUBAI: Sunday (BD)
Half Day Desert Safari (4 Wheel Drive):
Morning at leisure, enjoy beach activities. This tour departs in the afternoon across the desert of Dubai with several photo-stops during an exciting dune drive to the first destination a camel farm. The drive continues across the desert.
We stop to watch the beautiful sunset before reaching our campsite where for our lady guests you have the opportunity to do camel riding, and for the ladies try out a henna design on hands or feet. Henna hand painting (temporary tattoo) is a wedding night tradition.

After working up an appetite enjoy a delicious barbecue dinner and a shisha (the most famous Arabic Water pipe). We conclude the evening with a true 1001 Arabian Nights tradition and With a belly dancer performing her dance around the campfire before we head back to your hotel in Dubai or Sharja.

DAY 4 – DUBAI – Departure for Cairo – VIP Meet & Greet Service at Cairo Airport: Monday (B)
Our local rep. escorts you to the airport for your flight for Cairo. Air fare is included one way to Cairo in business class, tax included.

Our local representative greets you at the airport and whisks you to your hotel. VIP Meet & Greet Service at Cairo Airport. Visa fee is included and will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for Australian, NZ, American, EU, Canadian & Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo.

Visa will be issued upon arrival. As you exit the gate, you will pass through a door or two, down some stairs, then walk for 2-5 minutes until you pass the duty free shops. At the end of a wide corridor you will see the security officers. There you will be met by a local representative who will be holding a sign with your name.

Our local representative will then take your passport to obtain a stamp from the cashier / bank window and escort you to speak with the passport officer. He will escort you through another last check on your passport as you exit the passport control, into customs area, he will assist you in collecting your luggage and clearing customs. After exiting the terminal, our local representative will escort you (private vehicle) to the hotel.

Welcome fruit basket & Egyptian pastry awaits you in your room with our compliments.

Sample hotel: Deluxe: Intercontinental Hotel or similar. First Class: Ramses Hilton or similar.

DAY 5 – CAIRO: Tuesday (BLD)
Your exploration of the ancient world begins today! First stop is the Egyptian Museum, with its treasures of the ancient pharaohs: mummies, statuary, precious stones and metals. Lunch is included at the Mena House or Naguib Mahfouz Restaurant. Then it’s on to Giza and the mysteries of the Pyramids and Sphinx.

Dinner cruise with folk dance is included on board the Hyatt dinner cruise or similar.

DAY 6 – ASWAN- Board Your Nile Cruise: Wednesday (BLD)
After and early breakfast we fly to Aswan in Aswan, where we settle you into your cabin on your Nile steamer. Welcome drink served upon arrival. A complimentary fruit basket awaits you in your deluxe cabin We’ll visit the enormous dams at Aswan, then board a launch on Lake Nasser to visit the Temples of Philae, rescued from rising waters.

DAY 7 – KOM OMBO- On Board Your Nile Cruise: Thursday (BLD)
We cruise northward down the Nile today, at a stately pace, disembarking for a visit to Kom Ombo, the twin temple dedicated to the crocodile river god, Sobek. We’ll also see Haroeris, the solar disk.

DAY 8 – EDFU and LUXOR- On Board Your Luxury Nile Cruise: Friday (BLD)
Horse-drawn carriages or vans meet us at riverside to take us through Edfu to the Temple of Horus, best-preserved in all of Egypt. Then we’ll continue beside the Nile to take in an array of ancient splendors: the Valley of the Kings; the imposing tomb-temple of Queen Hatshepsut; and, back in Luxor, the Great Temple of Amon at Karnak.

DAY 9 – Luxor / Cairo: Saturday (BD)
Now that you’ve seen the best of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, our guides escort you to the airport. You’ll fly over the Delta and back to Cairo and the J. W. Marriott Hotel or similar. Dinner is included at the hotel.

DAY 10 – Cairo / Tel Aviv / Jerusalem: Sunday (B)
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Tel Aviv, air fare is included in our rate one way in economy class, tax included. Transfers are always on a private basis, private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, in Dubai, Egypt and Israel. Upon landing in Tel Aviv, proceed to Jerusalem and your hotel.

Monday, Day 11 – Old City of Jerusalem, Bethlehem (BL)
Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, private guide. Enter the Old City, walking through the reconstructed Jewish Quarter. Visit the newly excavated Cardo and continue to the Western Wall, the only remaining portion of the Second Temple. Walk along the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and through the colorful bazaars. Continue via Ramat Eshkol to Bethlehem, birthplace of King David. Visit Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity, site of Jesus’ birth. Return to Jerusalem.

Breakfast is included at the hotel, lunch is included at a local restaurant.

Tuesday, Day 12 – Megiddo, Nazareth, Tiberias (BL)
Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, private guide. Depart Jerusalem and drive to Nazareth to see the Church of the Annunciation. Drive to the Sea of Galilee and ride the waters to Tabgha. Visit Cana. Continue to Tiberias for a short tour. Visit Capernaum, on the Sea Of Galilee, to see the ruins of the Synagogue and Church of St. Peter. Stop at the renewed baptismal site on the Jordan River. Overnight in Jerusalem. Breakfast is included at the hotel, lunch is included at a local restaurant.

Wednesday, Day 13 – Jerusalem (B)
Full day on your own in Jerusalem to explore this Ancient city.

Thursday, Day 14 – Departure (B)
Private air condition car for your transfer. Private chauffeur. Our local rep. staff escorts you to the airport, where you’ll begin your journey home. Salaam and Bon Voyage!

RATES per person in USD

For Easter week, Christmas, New Year’s:
please note that a 10 % supplement will apply.

Sample Deluxe Hotels Dubai:
Sheraton Jumeirah Dubai. Hilton Jumeirah Dubai, or similar. For an upgrade to Le Meridien Mina Seyahi, please add: $450 USD per person in double.

Sample First Class four stars hotels in Dubai: Novotel Dubai, Dubai four point Sheraton, Qamardeen hotel Dubai.

Rate includes:

• Nile cruise, with all meals, a welcome fruit basket, complimentary bottle of water for each guest delivered to your cabin daily while on board the cruise. As well as bottled water and tea or coffee with each meal while on board the cruise
• All shore excursions, aboard, your Nile cruise.
  Sample First class: M/S Nile Dream, M/S Ruby.
  Sample Deluxe: these luxury Nile cruises: M/S Amarco, Monaco, M/S Royal Lotus M/S Mojito, Movenpick M/S Radamis II, Sonesta, Queen of Hansa, or the M/S Princess Sara, subject to availability.
• All transfers, always on a private basis: private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur.
• International air fares: one way Dubai to Cairo in business class, tax included.
• International air fares: one way Cairo to Tel Aviv in economy class, tax included.
• As well as all flight within Egypt all in business class.
• Air-conditioned hotel accommodations with tax and service charges
• Sightseeing with professional guide and entrance fees as indicated
• Meals as indicated, with pre-set menu (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)
• UAE: Emirates visa fee (valid only for American, Canadian, Australian, NZ, Korean, Singaporean & Japanese citizens. Passports must be valid for at least 6 month upon arrival).
• Dubai VIP Meet & Greet Service at the Airport:
  Arriving at Dubai Inetranational Airort you’ll be delighted to discover Travel in Style’s VIP Red Carpet welcome procedures: you are met by our English-speaking representative who escorts you from your plane to a comfortable air-conditioned lounge where you can freshen up and recover from your flight. While you relax, our representative completes your Immigration procedures, collects your luggage, clears it through Customs, and transfers it to your private, air-conditioned vehicle. Escorted from the lounge to your vehicle, your private chauffeur transfers you to your hotel, assisting with your luggage when you arrive. Red Carpet Treatment: that’s the Travel in Style difference.
• VIP Meet & Greet Service at Cairo Airport upon arrival.
• Egypt’s Visa fee is included and will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for a limited number of nationalities such as Australian, NZ, American, EU, Canadian & Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo.

Not included:

• Personal expenses and beverages
• Additional meals and services
• Visa for Israel, if needed, please check with the consulate nearest you.
• Trip interruption and cancellation insurance
• International air fare from/to your home country
• Tips